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Encouraged to ask certain employee for help
I got a new manager just beginning of this year and he replacing my old boss who got promoted to a different department in same company. So I still talk to my old boss but he is no longer my manager. ...
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Dismissive and uncommunicative coworker when there are clear signs of tension
I have worked with a more junior coworker for some time and recently there has been both degradation in the quality of communication between he and me (curt answers, rude interruptions) and uptick in ...
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Dealing with an incompetent colleague on a project
I'll try to keep the introduction very brief and elaborate further down. I work as a senior cloud engineer and our boss manages 4-5 teams of 3-6 people. My colleague - also a senior cloud engineer - ...
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Can I refuse to review the work of the team tech lead if I have a lower grade than they?
Long story short, I work as a data scientist in a small team. The working environment is quite unusual. Key facts:
The lead data scientist's technical expertise wasn't checked during the interview (...
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When (if ever) is it good to speak up if a coworker just sits watching videos all day?
At my job some days I would work out of a room with only one other person in it. 95% of the time he would just sit at his desk watching YouTube videos of World of Warcraft. He wasn't management but he ...
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How to get past the lack of trust? [closed]
So I just started a job doing what I have been doing for 7 years, fronted react-redux development work and doing pretty good I might add, out of the ton of tickets this company put together, like 16 ...
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Manager implied that I should be pushing a colleague to get work done faster. Do I tell the colleague?
Same manager as my previous post. My colleague and I are working on the same project, and we are at the same level in the org chart (in fact, we are in the same role), but he is newer to the ...
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How can I raise behavioral concerns as a candidate?
Introduction
I'm waiting for an offer from a company I'm currently interviewing with.
The job is a Software Engineering Team Lead at a company with 300 employees.
My Interpretations
During the ...
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How to get better at taking constructive criticism
I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I think I can be overly sensitive and take things too personally.
One example was I forwarded an email to someone I work with. I didn't know their account was ...
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How can I protect myself from a sexual predator at work?
I’m an eighteen year old female, and I just started my first day at my new work placement as a farm-hand.
I spent 2 weeks searching for a work placement so I was very excited and grateful. I’m afraid ...
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How do I tell my boss I don't feel the need to be friends outside of work?
I am an enterprise software dev in the USA. Another developer recently joined my small team. While he and I do share some similar interests, I find him annoying and am not interested in spending time ...
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What should I do when coworkers are assigned to projects they are not competent to carry out?
Over the last year or so, our team has lost many computer programmers, and we have been unable to fill these positions. In other words, we are severely understaffed1.
Due to this severe understaffing,...
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Why would management get angry that an employee who is not valuable is leaving?
I have a problem understanding workplace politics. I usually google these questions. However, this is one scenario that I couldn't find an explanation for.
Disclaimer: I'm not exaggerating when I say ...
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How to reply to "you're expected to not stay in the one role the whole day"?
I was sent to work at a convention with a team of about 10 other people. The convention was two days and our setup was elaborate. Most of the people I was working with were new to working with each ...
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Colleague's delayed work is preventing me from completing my own tasks
One of my colleagues and I are doing a project together and I depend on his results, but his deadline has been extended several times.
I asked him why he delayed his work. He answered that he was ...
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