Covid-Delayed Start (Bonus)

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Is your new employer pushing back your start date due to the pandemic? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Moshe Cohen, a senior lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. In this bonus episode, they talk through what to do when your new boss postpones your first day on the job and then doesn’t respond to your communications.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward. Today we're bringing you a bonus episode
0:34.6	on starting a new job during this pandemic, only to have
0:37.7	your new employer drag their feet.
0:40.0	And we're bringing back our expert guest from episode seven on bad bosses.
0:44.5	Moshe Cohen is a senior lecturer at Boston University's Questrum School of Business.
0:49.2	He's also the author of the forthcoming book, Collie Wobbles, How to Negotiate When Negotiating
0:54.1	Makes You Nervous. Mosha, welcome back. Thank you very much. of the forthcoming book, Callie Wobbles, How to Negotiate when Negotiating makes you nervous.
0:55.5	Moshe, welcome back.
0:56.5	Thank you very much.
0:57.8	So we're seeing a lot of letters from people who are having disruptions to their careers,
1:03.3	and this is a very specific kind of disruption. Does a crisis like this excuse an employer
1:08.6	or new employee from behaving badly?
1:12.1	So I think we always want people to behave professionally. Having said that, none of us are
1:20.1	behaving perfectly all the time, especially under the current stresses. So I think we should
1:26.4	avoid being too judgmental about what's going on and really try to
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