Take Dear Abby's employment law advice with a grain of salt.
I used to regularly post here on what the advice columnists in the media were saying in response to questions about workplace situations. It looks like my last one was in 2023.
What? It's 2026 already?
I love the advice columns. But Dear Abby had one this week that I just had to rant about. A letter writer in a customer-serving role said that customers and at least one co-worker were regularly hitting on her. She had tried to let them know that she wasn’t interested, but they weren’t taking the hints. She asked Abby what to do about it.
Abby started out fine. She told the writer to review her employer’s harassment policy. Always a good idea. But then she showed why, if you’re having problems in the workplace that might have legal ramifications, you should not be consulting with generic advice columnists.
(There are some advice writers who have backgrounds in Human Resources or business, such as Alison Green of the Ask a Manager blog, and Karla Miller, who recently shut down her column in the Washington Post. Another good one was Greg Giangrande, who had an employment-related column in the New York Post, but it doesn’t look like he’s written since 2024. In any event, these columnists provide -- or provided -- generally reliable advice about employment-law-related issues.)
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