‘Workplace’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 5

Q: I’ve been married for 4 years. I’m in my 50’s, and my husband is almost 50. My husband has a masters degree in biology and is very smart, but he prefers to work as a “chef”. He usually brings home about $20,000 per year, but this year he has made about $12,000. This is [...]

Q: Recently I was in some pretty strange circumstances. Two people at work were taunting me with statements related to pedophilia, not just once, but one week and then the next. I know that there was someone with my name in Australia and who is dead now, who had a lawsuit with regard to [...]

Q: I am the Office Administrator for a Treatment Foster Care agency, thus working mostly with social workers. Recently we did evaluations, and my supervisor said a couple of my co-workers said I was too direct at times. The rest of my evaluation was glowing! What in the world are they talking about? I am [...]

Q: We work in a 911 Center with 10 employees. One employee will not say good morning to anybody but the boss. I work at a position other than that of a dispatcher so am here with all dispatchers as they rotate shifts and days. Since there is only one dispatcher on at a time [...]

Q: What is an unprecedented mental urgency to leave immediately? I don’t get it! And now I am fired from a job I loved.
I was at work, minding my business, working alone; I did have a lot of personally stressing relationship issues on my mind that day, so that might have something to do [...]