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Tagged with employer-relations professionalism
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Should I meet my manager, in person, if he is on a business trip a 2 hour flight away from my city?
My company head office is in South Africa while I am based in Sweden. My manager sent out an email that next month he will be in France and would love to meet anyone in person for lunch or coffee.
My ...
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How to be independent at workplace while being friendly
At work places we have to stay independent to complete our services properly, right? In my new work place, there are 2 other girls, quite of my same age. So I greet them friendly and try to maintain ...
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Is it inappropriate, pushy, or unprofessional to ask for work laptop specs?
A company are offering me the option of getting a Linux, Macintosh, or Windows machine upon joining. I want to ask what specs the Macintosh, Linux, and Windows laptops will be because I would prefer ...
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How to navigate the breakdown of managerial structure in workplace [closed]
I'm hired by a Manager X. He is under the higher level boss Z.
Z is the largest share holder of the company and initial mentor of X.
A breakdown happened between X and Z. Because X wants to pursue his ...
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How to respond to a performance review you disagree with?
I found some of the many negatives of my performance review to be very one-sided. I tried to explain but received more criticism. It feels like they don’t see the good and only the bad. Some comments ...
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How to cushion blow of joining an avalanche of resignations?
Over the last 2 months, many of the top performing employees have left my current company. They each had different "official" reasons for leaving, but the timing of it is pretty obvious (it ...
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How to ask if my job is safe
I work for a company that values self-starters and does not value feedback. We get code review and bi-annual formal feedback, and that's it.
My history is that I was hired to do X, and have since ...
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CEO talked to me about letting me go. Now he is trying to keep me, but I want out. How should I communicate this?
I tried to make the title as neutral as possible, but the reality is that "I" (I am asking on behalf of a relative I know well) am doing at least 2 people's job, being paid the bare minimum, and with ...
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How to approach overprotected, unresponsive supervisor to tell him that I'm going on a vacation?
I'm a software engineering student who is currently doing an international internship in Rwanda. Being a European myself there where some challenges before I was able to get all the stuff I needed in ...
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My employer has written bad reviews on my relieving letter, he is deliberately spreading bad reviews
My employer is threatening me, he told, he will give negative feedback in bgv, he is trying to defame my image. what action can I take in india
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Couldn't attend holiday party. Should I ask to get the gift offered to remote employees?
My company hosted a nice holiday party that I would have liked to, but was unable to attend due to conflicts. I RSVP'd that I would not attend. The party has already taken place. From others ...
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Unpaid suspension due to management error
Two weeks ago, I was placed on a 3-day, unpaid, disciplinary suspension due to an error in a database.
My job involves manually entering data into a database. When roughly three consecutive entries ...
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Handling a tricky ex-employer
A friend of mine works as a Nurse Practitioner and was employed under an MD in his private clinic. She recently quit her job and now the ex-employer wants to hire her back. She ended up leaving the ...
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How does one deal with coding boss writing production code ignoring standards and process?
I joined this small company a couple of years ago, of at the moment less than 10 employees. The main product is a SAAS-application where the customer base is growing steadily. The founder and CEO ...
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What is best way to meet previous employer for just having good relation?
I worked at X company for 5 in Dubai and then moved back to my home country.
I got an offer from a different company, and decided to moved back.
I am in Dubai now and wanted to meet my previous ...
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