By Amy Dickinson | Tribune Content Agency PUBLISHED: July 9, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: July 9, 2018 at 7:11 am DEAR AMY: My supervisor, “Angie,” works hard at her job. She provides me with much valuable support and guidance. She is also the mother of a toddler, and as such she has negotiated to work 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday; she takes care of her child on Fridays. A few times a year, we have multiday team retreats, and Angie is never able to attend on Fridays. She rarely attends meetings or events in the evenings or on weekends, which happen at least a few times a month. More important, Angie has been on our team for over a year, and has yet to complete 40 hours of mandatory training, because she has not been able to make any of the sessions work with her parenting responsibilities. Now it’s annual review time and I have the chance to give feedback on Angie’s performance. (We have a practice where feedback happens in both directions, not just from supervisor to staffer.) I would like to raise my concerns, which are that A: It’s hard for me to… Read full this story
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