Questions tagged [conferences]
A conference is an official networking event where attendees meet to gain and share knowledge about a particular area or topic and those vendors who attend, educate the attendees on the goods and services .they offer in that field.
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Is it reasonable for my employer to make me use unpaid time off to drive back after a work conference?
I was at a work conference last week that was supposed to go M-F. It ended a day early and I drove home Friday during the day instead of Saturday. When I got back in the office today, my manager told ...
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Manager asks if a coworker can stay at my house
I work remotely. An annual conference relevant to my work is going to happen in my town. My manager has said that we can go, but only if my coworker can stay with me at my house (i.e., only if there ...
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Last-minute canceled work-trip means I'll lose thousands of dollars on planned vacation
My company was supposed to be doing a conference next week in NYC. Over the past few months, I had been given multiple assurances that the conference would take place. I bought my own plane ticket and ...
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Ethics of keeping a gift card you won at a raffle at a conference your company sent you to?
My company sent me to a conference, recently, and in the conference there was a raffle and I won a $200 Visa prepaid credit card which I, in turn, used to buy groceries and other things for myself.
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Going to a conference with a manager who has a history of skipping out on talks
A few years ago I did a developer conference with some coworkers, my manager included, and my manager and a senior developer decided not to attend any of the talks and just goof off instead. I, ...
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Responding to trivial and constant affirmation in a telephonic conference
My team and I (supervisor) have to attend a telephonic conference once in a week with another team located in a different country. The agenda is usually sharing updates of each other's work and trying ...
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What should be my reaction to my supervisors' small child showing up during a video conference?
When I have video conference with my supervisors during pandemic, it happens often that her/his child would e.g. barge into the room or he/she appear in the video with his/her child in his/her arm. He/...
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Invited to give talk, but want to refuse
I'm currently WFH and I feel a bit embarrassed about how tentative I have been about returning to normal life (which is largely due to my elderly father and girlfriend, whom I both live with, being ...
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I've been invited to a free 2-day conference. What's the catch?
I've been approached cold by email (sent to my work address) to attend a conference organised by a company called IDC. I have had no interactions with them before.
They are proposing to feed and house ...
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Refusing to go on a company-paid event
I’ve been with this company for almost two years now, and every now and then, they send all of their devs on an event of their choosing, with all expenses (except food related) paid by them. They have ...
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Should employer pay for an extra night abroad for Sabbath observance?
I work in Israel for a large American company and will be traveling abroad to a conference for work.
The conference finishes on Friday, so most people will fly home on Saturday; but as an observant ...
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Should I accept free lunch from hotel RFP responders?
I am conference chair for a professional organization and am in the midst of the Request For Proposal (RFP) process for finding our host hotel. I visited the first responding hotel to have a look ...
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How do I apply to speak at a conference, when I think I'll switch jobs before the event?
I'm a software engineer, and interested in a submitting a talk to a conference.
The work I would like to talk about is about using an open source library, but my company uses this library, and I ...
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Is it OK to not associate my current employer and title at a industry conference?
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Interested in attending an industry conference to just learn about "other parts" of the same industry but has nothing to do with my day to day tasks at work.
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Become aware of other ...
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Should I check with conference organizer before booking cheaper rate? [closed]
I'm traveling to a professional conference as a speaker. The conference is reimbursing speakers for hotel stay (up to a certain limit) and have a block of rooms at a local hotel, with a conference-...
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