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My guess: There will be more stimulus checks in 2021

Q: There was so much back and forth in the news around the holidays about the economic relief package that I’m confused about what finally passed and what it means for the average worker. What are the...

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How to tell the boss you want to still work remotely

Q:  I’ve been working from home since last March.  I’m more focused, productive, less stressed and my manager is happy with my performance. Even better, when my apartment lease expired last summer, I...

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Can you be fired for protesting outside work hours?

Q: With all the footage available of the attack on the Capitol, I understand there are many people who were spotted and identified by their employer and have lost their jobs as a result. But if someone...

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Can I bring my permitted gun into the workplace?

Q:  For personal reasons, a couple of years ago I obtained a concealed-carry gun permit for self-defense.  My employer doesn’t have a specific policy forbidding guns but they do have entrance signs...

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How to handle an anti-vaxxer at work during COVID

Q: I own a small business that employs about 10 people. Before COVID, one of our employees was known to be an anti-vaxxer and as someone who was generally suspicious of the ‘medical industrial...

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Early retirement is not just a dream

Q: Like for so many people out there, the last year of total life disruption due to COVID-19 has really made me reassess most of my career goals, and life goals in general.  Before COVID-19 I had...

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Too much debt to ever be financially independent? Think again

Last week I wrote about someone who was pretty burned out at work and after a year of COVID had decided life was too short to wait to retire in 15 years.  We explored the idea of retiring much earlier...

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Unvaccinated coworker wants to carpool? Be polite but not apologetic

Q:  I agreed to carpool for a one-hour trip with a coworker I had assumed was vaccinated, but now I’m hearing they are not.  After my second shot, I was feeling ready to go out into the world, but not...

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Healthcare in early retirement

Q:  I’ve read your last few columns about readers who want to retire much sooner than planned.  Well, count me in.  I’m fairly sure I have enough savings to pay for all my expenses, with one notable...

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How the workplace changed in the past year

It’s been over a year since we all hunkered down for what we thought would be two or three weeks (or a month max!) to wait for the virus to come-and-go out of our lives.  Little did we know it would...

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