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Inspired by her immensely popular newsletter, author Anne Helen Petersen turns her attention to the wild world of work in Work Appropriate. Featuring guest appearances by the smartest people Anne knows, the show delivers humorous but practical workplace advice for a range of listener questions. The problems may be limitless but so are the solutions!
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We've done episodes on pivoting careers, on starting over, on starting a new job-- and now it's time to talk about the absolute slog that is searching, applying, and interviewing for a new job. Phoebe Gavin, career coach and founder of Better with Phoebe, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to give listeners advice on getting through the slog and landing the job you want.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Fill out our form at www.workappropriate.com, or email us at workappropriate@crooked.com. You can stay as anonymous as you like!Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Are hiring managers checking out your Instagram stories? Is it okay to tweet about the NSFW writing you do on the side? Should you expose the idiots who send vitriol to your company's inboxes? The intersection of work and social media can be a messy place. Rachel Karten, social media strategist and writer of the Link in Bio newsletter, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about when online problems become IRL.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Fill out our form at www.workappropriate.com, and your question may appear in a future episode! You can also send us an email at workappropriate@crooked.com.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
We usually create Work Appropriate episodes around a theme, grouping similar questions together. But over time, we've amassed a collection of questions that are, shall we say, unique. Greta Johnsen, host of WBEZ's Nerdette, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer this cornucopia of singular submissions.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? We're here for you. Head to www.workappropriate.com and ask away-- or you can email workappropriate@crooked.comListen to Anne's guest appearance on NerdetteFollow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
So your company put out a statement about its commitment to DEI (or DEIB, or IDEA, or whatever your workplace calls it)-- now what? Efforts to make workplaces more diverse, equitable, and inclusive can often get bogged down by the processes and culture that made the efforts so necessary in the first place. Sameera Kapila, product designer and author of Inclusive Design Communities, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about how to keep doing the work, and make it effective.Get 50% off of Inclusive Design Communities with code WORK15, from September 6-20.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it, or send us an email at workappropriate@crooked.com.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Sometimes the job is fine, the pay is fine, the schedule is fine, but you still feel stuck. It's a miserable feeling, like no matter what you do, this is going to be your life until the end of time. Josh Gondelman, pep talker extraordinaire and our first three-peat guest, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to offer some glimmers of hope to listeners who feel woefully, hopelessly stuck. Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Send your questions at www.workappropriate.com or send us an email at workappropriate@crooked.comFollow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Of all the roles you can have at a workplace, "intern" is one of the most vulnerable. Alice Wilder, writer of the Starting Out newsletter, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about how to get taken seriously as an intern, how to justify paying interns when you think they don't add much to the company's bottom line, and how to make an internship program worth everyone's time.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it. Some of the episodes we're working on include social media etiquette, pregnancy at work, and creating a good/healthy/fun remote culture.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Ifeoma Ozoma joins host Anne Helen Petersen for a much-requested episode about the trials and tribulations workers face in the tech industry. From overwork to the nebulous "culture fit," we answer listeners' questions about when the start-up hustle is no longer worth it.Read CNN's profile of Ifeoma Ozoma and her work from December 2022Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it, or send an email to workappropriate@crooked.comFollow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
1Is considering diversity in hiring actually reverse racism? What if advocating for my colleagues of color means I lose my job? What do I do if I think my colleague doesn't like me because I'm a white guy? Garrett Bucks, writer of The White Pages and founder of The Barnraisers Project, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer questions from white listeners struggling with issues of allyship and social justice at work.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it, or send us an email at workappropriate@crooked.comFollow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
As the saying goes, death is a part of life. So why are workplaces so ill-equipped to provide employees with compassionate and expansive bereavement leave? Dina Gachman, author of So Sorry For Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about dealing with grief at work.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it.Order So Sorry For Your Loss from Bookshop.org. Code WORK10 gets you 10% off!Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
What do you do when your job is burning you out, but you can't really *care less* about it? When children need teachers and vulnerable populations need social workers and hospitals need nurses-- how can you walk away? Dena Simmons, founder of LiberatED, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about how to make caring professions more sustainable.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
A sneak peek of the first book from Crooked Media Reads, Mobility, by Lydia Kiesling. Mobility is a gripping coming-of-age story about navigating a world of corporate greed that's both laugh-out-loud funny and politically incisive. The novel tracks themes of class, power, politics, and desire throughout the life of its compelling main character, Bunny Glenn. Vulture called Bunny Glenn “a complicated heroine for the ages, a striver who values the comforts of her oil-industry job even as she must reckon with the fact that the world is quite literally on fire.” Mobility is out on August 1. Pre-order your copy today at www.crooked.com/mobility
Lydia Kiesling, author of Mobility, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about the amorphous intersection of parenting and work. We’re talking about big, philosophical questions about fulfillment, passion, and even division of ambition with your co-parent.Pre-order Mobility at crooked.com/mobility, and be among the first to read it when it comes out August 1.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Rebecca Cokley, program officer for the Ford Foundation's first-ever U.S. Disability Rights program, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about navigating the workplace while disabled. From advocating for accommodations, to giving yourself a pep talk during a relapse, to saying "no" to work travel while immunocompromised-- Rebecca shares the wisdom that comes from lifelong personal experience.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? We're here for you! Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
There's a persistent idea that when you finish high school or college, you pick a career and then do that one thing for the rest of your life. But what if you get a few years, or even decades, in... and you hate it? Can you pivot? Ailsa Chang, host of NPR's All Things Considered joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about making a change.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it. Some episodes we’re working on include problems around taking a much-needed vacation, juggling parenthood with work, and making caring professions (e.g. teaching, nursing) more sustainable.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Are work friends overrated? How can you manage the awkwardness of your friend becoming your boss? And is it possible to have a work fling without it ending in disaster? Tre'vell Anderson, co-host of What A Day and author of We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer all things friendship.Order We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film. Code WORK gets you 10% off!Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and ask away!Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
For those of us who are pet lovers, a good vet clinic makes all the difference. But for those working in vet clinics, things can be really hard. In fact, veterinarians have a risk of death by suicide at a rate 2-4 times that of the general public. How did things get to be this way, and what hope is there for improvement? Dr. Karen Fine, DVM and author of The Other Family Doctor, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about working in the vet industry-- and how pet owners can offer support.If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Read Anne's newsletter about grief and her beloved PeggyOrder The Other Family Doctor from Bookshop.org-- promo code WORK gets you 10% offFollow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Few things are more nerve-wracking than getting laid off. But odds are, most of us will be laid off at some point in our lives. So how can we prepare? And when it happens, how do we cope? Career coach Phoebe Gavin joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about what happens after the pink slip.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and let us know.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
If you have ADHD, autism, Tourette's, a traumatic brain injury, or another neurological difference, navigating workplace culture can be a huge challenge. Faith Saenz, founder of NeuroTalent Consulting, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about being neurodivergent at work.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and let us know.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
We've received so many questions about awkward/mean/offensive/weird things your coworkers have said and done... that we had to make a whole episode about just that. Virginia Sole-Smith, author of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to help listeners figure out what to say, how to say it, and when to just go straight to HR.Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Let us know at www.workappropriate.com.Order Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture at Bookshop.org. Use promo code WORK to get 10% off!Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
If you spend a lot of your life doing something, it's natural to care about it! But sometimes the amount we care about our jobs does not match the way our jobs care about us. So when you come to the realization you need to care a little less about your job... how do you actually do that? Simone Stolzoff, author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life From Work, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer questions from listeners who want to dial down the caring.Order The Good Enough Job at Bookshop.org. Use the code WORK to get 10% off!Got a sticky situation at work that you need help figuring out? Tell us about it at www.workappropriate.com.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
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Poor white-collar workers and their meetings. Try working in front-line healthcare, transportation & logistics and/or grocery retail. No days off during COVID-19!!