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I don’t even think she is that interested in giving good advice. Like it’s more important to her to be clever or witty then actually helping someone. OldPru was like that too sometimes. She loved her puns and she definitely had her blindspots. Especially around drinking and rape. But she still seemed to put more thought into her answers. Captain Awkward, Ask a Manager, Ask Polly, I don’t always agree with their advice and they can be long winded at times. Especially Ask Polly. But I do get the impression they are genuinely trying to help the letter writers.

I do like some of NuPru’s answers but a lot of it just feels off the cuff and careless.

[boxofrocks]

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[Auroranorth]

I think Mallory is miles better than Old Prudie when it comes to things like sexual assault, and she is a lot less willing to tell women that they have to bend over and take it up the tailpipe when it comes to toxic family, but she needs to work on business stuff- badly.

[Mutagen]

Even Alison on Ask A Manager, who answers nothing but workplace related questions, calls in relevant lawyers when a question is above her paygrade.

[eclair]

A fairly mild issue over at Ask A Manager today, in the group of five questions she posts first each day. An office is going to have a cake baking contest, and a coworker of the letter write has confided that he's going to have his professional cake baking nephew make his cake. Letter writer wonders if this is cheating, and should they say something. In the replies are lots of stories about office chili contests, cookie baking contests, soup making contests - all won by people who bought chili from Wendy's, who used store bought cookie dough, or who used a just add water soup recipe.

And these were all for pretty meager prizes. It boggles my mind that in a contest so many people would enter but wouldn't actually make their entree. Not sure if any of the rules specified home made, but why bother? What glory does someone get carrying chili from Wendy's, for example.

But, pretty mild compared to some of the weirdness that goes on in her column.

[newmanium]

Amy Alkon strikes again:

www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2017/11/08/men_the_impriso.html

Now her panties are in a twist because of a magazine article about the sexual abuse of female prisoners. She's not denying it happens; she's outraged because the article is about female prisoners. Her whole rant is, "What about the men?".

Not that sexual abuse of male prisoners is right or shouldn't be exposed and dealt with, but Alkon was enraged at the very idea that someone would write an article focusing on women being abused. The author didn't claim that men weren't abused, or that women had it worse. It was an article about abuse of prisoners in women's prisons, and apparently that isn't allowed.

[Auroranorth]

Oh, for pete's sake. We are allowed to hold more than one concern at a time in our tiny minds, Amy.

[tabby]

This is God-awful: My employees played a horrible prank on a co-worker.

It's bullying, plain and simple. Also, I can't help but think that the two employees who played the prank seem to have a tremendous amount of spare time.

[Brookie]

Nov 15, 2017 17:28:36 GMT -4 tabby said:

This is God-awful: My employees played a horrible prank on a co-worker.

It's bullying, plain and simple. Also, I can't help but think that the two employees who played the prank seem to have a tremendous amount of spare time.

Their sorry asses would be out the door yesterday. How sad they think this is funny. And if I'm the employee they "pranked", I'm lawyering up so fast, it'll make your head swim the Pacific Ocean.

[Auroranorth]

Yeah, this wasn't a spur of the moment joke, they planned it out well in advance and arranged to bring in a third party. This should damn well be a firing offense, and if someone kept them on I'd seriously start looking elsewhere before they decided to prank me.