What to Do When Your Job Isn’t Working “You do have the power to change the workplace.”

For @slate.com Plus members, @doreeshafrir.bsky.social & I talk about work advice and the patterns we've seen in our GOOD JOB column so far.
Doree: It's usually about difficult conversations.
Me: Also power.
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Good Job Question Submission Form Please enter your question below for Slate’s work advice column, Good Job. We’re especially interested in the social aspects of navigating the workplace—the knotty questions and dynamics that occur wi...

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What Does a Scam Email Look Like? Just Like This

Everything’s a scam but this what a publishing scam email looks like.

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My Co-Workers Keep Having Flirtatious Lunches. It’s On Me to Stop Them. It's bound to cause a scandal.

If two colleagues are getting flirty, is it up to you to stop them? I answer this question and more in my latest Good Job column for @slate.bsky.social slate.com/advice/2025/...

I’m Afraid My Boss’s Terrible Driving Will End in Tragedy. I Have No Idea How to Intervene. He's very sensitive.

How do you talk to a boss who's a terrible driver, but insists on driving you to clients? What do you do about a co-worker who insists on idle chatter before leaving the office? All this AND MORE in my latest Good Job column! slate.com/advice/2025/...

My parents are in town and staying with us and so my husband and I just... left the house last night? Together?! Spontaneously?!?!! Without paying someone $100 to watch our kid?!!?!?!? What is this sorcery!

My Beloved Former Co-Worker Asked for a Recommendation. Unfortunately, She Is Bad at Her Job. What will she say about me?

My debut Good Job column for @slate.bsky.social! slate.com/advice/2025/...

I'm so excited about this!

Slate launches Good Job, a brand new advice column about the modern workplace. Good Job, Slate's new advice column written by Doree Shafrir and Laura Helmuth, will cover the joys, complications, and confusions of the modern workplace.

Something fun! Today we launched an advice column all about the workplace. @doreeshafrir.bsky.social and @laurahelmuth.bsky.social will be answering questions every week! slate.com/briefing/202...

Slate Launches Good Job, a Brand-New Advice Column About the Modern Workplace The column, written by Doree Shafrir and Laura Helmuth, will cover the joys, complications, and confusions of the modern workplace.

1/ New advice column alert 🚨

Introducing Good Job, our new advice column about the problems, big and small, we face in the modern workplace. Have a workplace issue you need help dealing with? @doreeshafrir.bsky.social and @laurahelmuth.bsky.social are here to help.

Episode 337: What To Do When Your Mom Gets Dumped with Hallie Bateman — Forever35 Doree and Elise share the products that the young people in their life have influenced them to try. Then, they invite illustrator and writer Hallie Bateman on to discuss illustrating a book with her m...

Had the pleasure of being on the Forever35 podcast this week! Loved chatting with Elise Hu and @doreeshafrir.bsky.social about the new book.

well, gents, our efforts to suddenly freeze the federal government appear to have had the unintended effect of freezing several federal government programs

This was such a great interview — a clear-eyed perspective on how to navigate the next four years and how to stay politically engaged in a way that makes an impact. Thank you Leah!