Questions tagged [coworking]
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Activities for different companies in one workplace [closed]
There are two diffrent companies in 1 workplace. The one is marketing company. The other is a team of designers. As an office manager I should create some kind of activity to attract people from two ...
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What do I say to a co-worker who is always putting herself down?
I sit very close to a co-worker who, while doing her work, keeps saying things like "I am so dumb, I am so stupid, what a dummy I am." I'm at my own desk doing my own work, but I still ...
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How do I stay out of malicious gossip when co-worker keeps trying to get me to agree with her? [duplicate]
Two co-workers of mine talk about a 3rd co-worker behind her back. They feel she gets away with things that other employees do not and management doesn't do anything about it. For example, her ...
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Should I complain to my manager about a chronic complainer?
I work at a bank. I recently became a permanent employee where I worked as a temporary employee for 6 months. The company recently switched to a new core system, and there are a lot of problems to fix....
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Should a person console a coworker if he/she was fired?
What is the etiquette if a coworker on your team was fired for poor performance and you are friends? Should you refrain from saying anything to the former coworker for some time?
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How to get co-workers to put in fair contribution to project?
I work as a public school teacher. My principal requires all teachers to join one committee. Each committee has unique responsibilities, for instance, the "Party Planning Committee" plans ...
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Not being respected at the workplace
I'm hired as a software developer at a company that has sites in multiple countries,
and I was sent to the sister location in the UK to collaborate in an interesting new project.
I was excited to join ...
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How to address a suspicion that my co-worker is not reviewing my work?
On each project we submit drafts for peer review. Whenever one particular colleague of mine performs a review of my work, she always returns it with no comments. I always get comments from everyone ...
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Extreme flexible working hours: how to get to know people and activities?
At the beginning of February I began a new job as full team manager (a role with aspects of project management, team management, technical leader, client management, etc.) in a new company (EU based, ...
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Should I tell my boss the work he did was worthless?
I have been handed a project that has been kicked around for 4 or 5 months with ~zero progress made. The project is to implement a new tool that was chosen before I got here. It seems like a good ...
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Office manager repeatedly produces loud distracting noises (tics), what to do?
Working in a small co-work space, the current office manager constantly and repeatedly (every 10 seconds approximately) produces loud noises (mostly tics) when not engaging in a conversation. A few ...
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How to push back on being assigned brainless tasks in a development team
What is a neutral and professional way to push back against being assigned by senior team members to do brainless tasks in a development team? I don't dislike my team, but I am worried about not being ...
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How can I address being kept out of important decisions and meetings? [closed]
I am not sure how to deal with coworker behavior which involves ignoring me or my comments that are on technical discussions because I lack a higher degree.
There's also this perverse behavior, that ...
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How to avoid frustration when working with engineers with different ways of working [closed]
I am working with a developer who does the following:
1) Does not respond to questions you ask in a timely manner (takes anywhere from 35 mins to hours to get back). We're all working with some ...
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How to avoid someone concurrently working on same task and wasting everyone's time
I am working with another developer. I was originally assigned to one problem, and he decided to do a rewrite of my work because requirements changed during and after testing.
I am unsure how to ...
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