The following questions are related to ‘Workplace’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
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 the [...]
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 [...]
Q: I was in a very abusive relationship for 8 years. I have been single for almost 4 years now, with a couple of short-lived relationships in between. I found that I was happier single than with someone, just to be with someone. I decided recently that I was ready to find a man to [...]
Q: I work in a residential program for pregnant and parenting teens and single young women. Just recently we had a resident who was staying with us; she was a sixteen-year-old who was about 7 months into her pregnancy. This young woman had a history of jumping around through foster care and group homes and [...]
