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Lucy Kellaway, FT columnist and associate editor, offers her solution to your workplace problems in a fortnightly column in the Financial Times.
In this weekly online edition of her ’agony aunt’ column, readers are invited to have a say too. Read more about Dear Lucy here.
To post comments, go to the relevant article below.
Please send new problems to Lucy at problems@ft.com. - -
How to I deal with my CEO expecting people to put up with daily abuse?
I am a senior executive in a leading bank. The CEO, who has been in place for the past three years, has systematically filled all the key positions with his cronies and has single-handedly destroyed all employee loyalty and morale. He cares only about short-term results (which is what drives his compensation) and expects people to put up with abuse on a daily basis.
As you can imagine, I am not the only person who is offended by this culture – and in a different economic environment would have moved by now. How, if at all, other than writing to you anonymously, should we deal with this situation?
I’ve been cuckolded by my CEO. Should I leave my job?
My wife, who works at the same company as me, has for some months been conducting an affair with our chief executive. She has decided to leave me and resign her position in order to move in with him. The affair, which has been made very public within the company, seems to have done no damage to him but has devastated me. I find myself having to work directly for the man who has cuckolded me – which is intolerable to my pride.
However, I don’t see why I should resign from a job in which I had been excelling, when I am the only person to have behaved professionally throughout. What should I do?
