My Employee Is an Absolute Delight. It’s Really Testing This One Company Policy.

Good Job July 14, 20261:05 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Oscar Gutierrez Zozulia/Getty Images Plus, Timothy Dykes/Unsplash and Unsplash. Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Good Job, I’m a manager of a store, and I have a question about enforcing rules for my employees. Technically, employees are not supposed to be socializing during their shifts, with each other or with customers. But of course, people’s friends come in and say hi, or they get to know customers and have a chat. I’ve always trusted my workers to know what’s appropriate and what’s not, and everyone is pretty good at sticking to being professional. My issue now is that I have an employee who is re