Vicky Oliver

Vicky Oliver has published six how-to career books, including Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots (Sourcebooks, 2008) and the novel Mistress Suffragette (Penmore Press, 2017) under the pen name Diana Forbes. One chapter from the unpublished sequel was a finalist in the Saturday Evening Post “Best American Fiction” Contest and was published in an anthology of winners. Vicky writes for Harvard Business Review (Ascend) and Lifehack.org on career upsets. She is a native New Yorker and a very active Brown University alumna.

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

I was in a meeting when the mysterious email arrived: “Need to talk to you today. What’s your phone number?” The message was so curt, that I didn’t think my friend John could have possibly written it. He was a native New Yorker with the soul and demeanor of a Southern gentleman.