He always suggests that he picks you up and you two drive together to the networking event. He suggests you two carpool to the out of town thing. He suggests you share an Uber back from the company party. It never makes sense. You live in totally different directions, and are working with different schedules, but he finds a way to justify it.
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Ask for regular reviews—maybe quarterly or even at the end of each month. This helps because it means your boss can’t just yell at you whenever she feels like it, giving no truly productive or helpful notes. It forces her to formulate her feedback into words everyone can understand, and that are helpful. If she just has anger issues, that will become apparent when, come time for that review, she has nothing to say—she hasn’t prepared anything. So then what has all that yelling been about all month?
Angry bosses tend to have boundary issues and will call or email you after work hours, and on weekends. Don’t give into the pressure to work when you aren’t being paid to work. If you’re worried that waiting until Monday to respond will make your boss angry, just remember that, she’s always angry anyways. So you may as well enjoy your weekend.
If you are at that phase of getting engaged or at least talking about getting engaged, just know that most men will not get married until they feel settled in their careers and financially stable. A lot of this comes from the fact that they don’t think you would want a husband who hadn’t made it.
Sometimes, you have to look out for yourself and your reputation.
No need to pull out weaves in the workplace, madames.