Ask the Amys: Sabotaging Bosses, Irritating Employees, and More

问艾米们:破坏领导的老板,烦人的员工,以及更多

Women at Work

2025-06-30

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What if your boss turns against you the minute you ask for a promotion? Or you struggle with strategic thinking and keep getting feedback that you’re “too in the weeds”? Or the person dragging down your team is doing just enough to stay out of trouble? The Amys give advice for dealing with sabotage, shifting how you're seen, and setting expectations with difficult colleagues.
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  • Welcome to Ask the Amy's.

  • This is when our listeners write to us about their frustrations at work and we give them our best advice.

  • This time those questions are about making the leap from tactical to strategic,

  • handling unfair treatment from a manager,

  • coaching someone with a difficult personality, and a few other issues.

  • So let's start with this question from a woman who's wondering how to push for a more formalized review process at work.

  • She writes,

  • I work at a mid-sized family-owned company that has had some growing pains

  • as we've expanded.

  • One area that has not evolved is our review process,

  • which is done twice a year and involves filling out a form with two simple questions.

  • There are no means

  • for evaluating ourselves in terms of our performance on a more quantitative basis,

  • and there is no opportunity for a 360 review of our peers.

  • A revamped, expanded review process is something we could all really benefit from.

  • but top leadership is resistant to change,

  • despite multiple requests from multiple levels of the company.

  • As someone in the middle of the hierarchy,

  • she says she'd love a chance to provide some effective feedback in a formalized way to her peers.

  • She asks,