Well, my husband had a conversation with one of the other partners today, and it seems this is de-escalating dramatically (good in the short term if not something that we still need to consider in the long term). The net is that it's only boss/partner who has an issue, but the issue is impacting th...
Partner was his best friend in addition to creative partner / boss. [...] The latest is a note that basically sets him up to be fired for cause (he’s a partner so if he’s fired for cause, he loses his stake in the company). Among the Lolla incident, it questions his “commitment to the company and h...
Society may not want to know about woundedness, or cancer, or mortality, but an increasing number of people are living beyond cancer treatment and being forced to confront precisely these things. Arthur Frank called ours a remission society: a place where many of us have had cancer and may pass as...
Therese, who asked that we didn't use her real name, is another woman with faecal incontinence who struggled before finally seeking help. "What it brings up for me is that whole thing of the smelly older woman," she said. [...] Dr Mirbagheri said the first step when treating someone with ...
I am not sure what you mean about playing my “c card.” Unless you mean that my husband has taken them up on their offer to do “whatever he needs to do” to take care of me? Is saying he would like to accompany me to NY for my surgery “playing a c card?” His wife has convinced him that my husband is ...
There are layers of betrayal here and if a Managing Partner in the company cannot receiving support when there is a personal family crisis, then that is certainly not going to inspire those on the lower rungs in the company to go the extra mile. Not a nice workplace culture at all. One outcome is a ...