Shutterstock Dear Liz, I’ve dug myself a hole at work and I need to know how to get out of it. When I was hired, my boss Bart said “I’m out of the office most of the time, so Melanie is going to train you.” I thought that sounded great. Melanie spent a lot of time with me when I was getting started. She trained me, and she showed me how to do a lot of things for her in particular.