Advice Columnists: Carolyn Hax

[mcs328]

Anyone read Carolyn Hax? She's been giving relationship advice and what not. Some of the letters she gets are just unbelievable.

For example: Promotion trouble (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42119-2003Mar28.html)

TELL ME ABOUT IT: Advice for the Under-30 Crowd

By Carolyn Hax
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 30, 2003; Page F01


Hi Carolyn:

I have been having an affair with my older, married boss for six months (he's 44 and I'm 28). We are in love. We obviously haven't told anyone in the office, but he says he thinks people are catching on to us and that we shouldn't be so chatty together at work anymore. That's fine, except now I have the opportunity to pursue a promotion within the company. He has also asked me NOT to apply for the position because it would involve our working at the same level and our relationship would look even more suspicious to the rest of the office. I am qualified for this promotion and really want the recognition.

-- HELP

Don't you just hate it when your immorality gets in the way of your career?

End the affair regardless; be horrified at his request; apply for the promotion; be realistic and dust off your résumé; and look at thyself in the mirror. You have more than one opportunity here to rise.

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Awwww...po' baby. The affair your having with yout boss is hindering your future career advancements. But who cares about the marriage you and the boss are messing up because now it's "me" time and you want to have a future in the company. :hmm: :dodgy:

[johnnymk]

She and the boss and the advice columnist are all of the same kind: Self centered creeps who know no boundaries.

[sbp]

Dips selfishness keeps getting worse.

[LPMiller]

Originally posted by johnnymk
She and the boss and the advice columnist are all of the same kind: Self centered creeps who know no boundaries.

I think you are missing the sarcasm of Carolyns response. She is quite good at putting the people who write in right into their place.

[johnnymk]

Originally posted by LPMiller


I think you are missing the sarcasm of Carolyns response. She is quite good at putting the people who write in right into their place.

OK, after studying her response, it does appear that way.

[mcs328]

I like how she justifies the affair of six months by saying "We are in love". Oh ok...since you're in love you're forgiven and it's okay to have an affair with your boss who doesn't want you to apply for a promotion that might ruin his marriage and would probably undermine your authority/skills in your new career.

I like Carolyn Hax but she recently made a faux pas (sp?) of her own by recently breaking up with her long time partner (He's also the guys that draws the cartoons that go along with her columns) and then getting pregnant soon afterwards with someone else whom she is now married too. She lost a lot of her readers respect for not practicing what she preached but owned up to it and moved on.