I probably have a zillion open accounts on sites I don’t use anymore, but then when I hear about them being breached, I do worry. Does my account have a payment method, is it tied to other accounts, did I use that password anywhere else (1Password makes this easy to check, but it’s still a thing I have to do), etc.…

I basically had the same thing happen. I worked in a newsroom, and my schedule included a Sunday shift that was often a little slow. I noticed during one of my lunch breaks that the fridge was nasty. It was a brutally boring day, so I took 20 minutes and cleaned it out. A few weeks later it was nasty again. No…

Can I make a polite suggestion:

In response to the flood of burners and, let’s face it, men moaning about how this advice is either: 1. sexist or 2. pointless because everyone recognizes these volunteer tasks and gives credit for it, allow me to present a small sample of the ways that I, a professional woman, have been asked to volunteer to do…

Well...if you reward them then that excludes the tasks from the population of thankless tasks, no?

(Woman in Engineering) I agree with your professor! Here’s why:

Advising women how to navigate our sexist work culture is not being a “bigot.” Because let me guess--you believe sexism doesn’t exist?

(Woman in engineering) For better or worse, one of my mentors in college strongly impressed on us (female engineering students) that we should never EVER volunteer to do admin/office management tasks once we started working as it would blur the lines on our actual job duties and reinforce the idea that women do office…

That’s what you say now, but when in the heat of the action people who get promoted are the ones doing the cool stuff, or at least able to have their boss believe they are doing cool stuff.

And for every person like you who rewards such volunteering, there are 10 managers who will do nothing (and may even “volunteer” the employee for more things in the future.)

What are those points worth, though, in relation to the opportunity cost of spending time organizing a party, cleaning a closet, or managing the coffee supply versus pursuing a big sale or completing a large project? I don’t doubt that you notice and value volunteerism, but I can’t put thankless tasks on my resume.

If you haven’t seen it, you should watch John Oliver’s “report” on this:

So I started looking up these nasty people online (very easy to do) and a few of them have or are looking for sports scholarships for college. Some of them have recruiting pages online.