{"id":22550,"date":"2019-09-17T07:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=22550"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:39:48","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-sept-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/22550","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8212; Sept. 17, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/askamanager.jpg\" alt=\"Ask a manager book cover\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ask a Manager: How to navigate clueless colleagues, lunch-stealing bosses, and the rest of your life at work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Alison Green <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/1q3c9ri\/UWI71429258990002121\">HF5548.8 .G7185 2018 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many commenters and reviewers (of both this book and the author\u2019s long-running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askamanager.org\/\">advice blog<\/a> of the same name) have said \u201cThis is the guide I <em>wish <\/em>I had when I entered the work world!\u201d Thus, I had to feature it and give it a plug for our students! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I admit to being a longtime reader of the blog, initially when I was first out of grad school and in a long and frustrating job hunt; and still now at times for its solid, no-nonsense guidance in navigating all sorts of sticky situations at work. I\u2019ve not yet been in the position of managing others, but if I ever am, I think I will credit her blog for most of my practical management knowledge. Plus, it often inspires moments of eternal gratitude that I don\u2019t work with any of the manipulative\/micromanaging\/inept\/conflict-averse bosses or wacky\/intrusive\/insensitive\/cruel colleagues that sometimes fill Green\u2019s blog posts! (look out for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askamanager.org\/2013\/07\/an-employee-is-putting-magic-curses-on-her-coworkers.html\">employee who\u2019s putting magic spells<\/a> on the coworkers she doesn\u2019t like\u2026) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not a regular blog reader, though, this book is great to page through and pick out a few apt scenarios to help you out when you\u2019re facing a big interview, or paralyzed at the thought of writing a cover letter, or doubting whether and how you can negotiate for a raise. The chapters are organized into categories: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Conversations with your boss<\/li><li>Conversations with your colleagues<\/li><li>Conversations when you&#8217;re the boss<\/li><li>Conversations with your job interviewer<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>which make it easy to jump to the section most applicable to you at this time. In each section, generous use of numbered questions or scenarios, with second-person pronouns, make it easy to page through and identify any similar problems you might have. Green\u2019s chatty tone and occasional first-person pronouns makes it easy to feel as if you\u2019re just asking for advice from your closest workplace mentor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highly recommended! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask a Manager: How to navigate clueless colleagues, lunch-stealing bosses, and the rest of your life at work By Alison Green New Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor&nbsp;&nbsp; HF5548.8 .G7185 2018 So many commenters and reviewers (of both this book and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/22550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[167190],"class_list":["post-22550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-new-stuff-tuesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22574,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22550\/revisions\/22574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}