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Should I ask for my wedding voucher? [closed]

A few years ago, my management organized a voucher contribution for one of the manager's wedding. We were not invited but each of us paid £30 to get her a voucher. I got married two weeks ago and my ...
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0 votes
3 answers
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How do I approach going back to an old company?

I previously worked for this logistics company for almost two years. It was a startup at the time and I was the second hire. At the end of the two years, we had grown this company to almost 50 people. ...
Tyler's user avatar
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0 votes
2 answers
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Executives are pressing me to take over another managers team [closed]

I am relatively new to this company I currently manage a team of cloud engineers. The manager of the managed services team left due to a dispute over team compensation. I have managed a global team of ...
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5 votes
3 answers
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My senior management is wanting to place me on a PIP

As of yet I have not signed it, and I will admit to some of the issues being fair criticisms that I have been trying to improve upon; some have even merited my supervisor's admission that they have ...
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2 answers
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People I manage earn more than me, how to approach this with my bosses

I was promoted a year ago as a manager. I was given the job without seeing the job spec or knowing what the salary was, but I really wanted the position so I took it without questioning my boss. I ...
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3 votes
2 answers
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How to deal with passive management style ("come to me, I won't come to you")

TL;DR What are your options with a manager with "passive" management style, very little teamwork, knowledge sharing, bad onboarding for new employees, very little meetings and no incentive ...
kedavle's user avatar
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4 votes
2 answers
954 views

How to handle emotionally, a chronically irritable manager?

This is in the context of a UK work culture. I work in a small isolated team with a chronically irritable manager. I wouldn't go as far as to describe him as angry but he's certainly not merely abrupt/...
HeatedManager's user avatar
41 votes
8 answers
17k views

No access to data as a data analyst. How do I change this culture?

When I applied to and interviewed for this role, the job spec and interview process promised I'll be building self-service dashboards in Qliksense and working on bringing insights to the business as ...
ectoplasm's user avatar
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6 votes
5 answers
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Should I use my supervisor's formal title in a US (Los Angeles) government job? [closed]

I'm having clouds of thought right now on how to address my supervisors. I am a fresh college graduate beginning a career position at Los Angeles County. Having grown up in both the Philippines and ...
Alexander Kirk's user avatar
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3 answers
490 views

How to find major customers of particular worldwide public company (Introductions)? [closed]

I was trying to get in touch with best possible corporate law firms - the local ones in the same country as where target public company is. The goal was to ask a law firm to introduce me and our own ...
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3 votes
4 answers
729 views

Should I Accept the Title of Application Development Supervisor?

TL;DR I was offered the title of Application Development Supervisor, but a long history of dealing with non-technical management makes me feel this is not an appropriate title with a clear enough ...
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4 votes
3 answers
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What questions to ask about organization/structure in an interview

I'm a senior engineer in a small, but regionally established, IT company. I perceive it as rather hard to make progress due to a lack of transparency, coordination, and organizational structure; in ...
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7 votes
2 answers
709 views

Cultural differences in the willingness to exercise "position power"?

I'm reading the book "High Output Management" by Andrew S. Grove, a (naturalized) American, who distinguishes between "knowledge power" - i.e. people who have a lot of influence in a company, not due ...
Evgeniy Berezovsky's user avatar
66 votes
12 answers
21k views

How can I manage my team to maintain a reasonable productivity when my employer doesn't treat employees well?

My employer doesn't treat employees too well, for example we often work overtime without pay (for details you may check my other question How can I argue against the idea of working overtime to fix ...
Qiulang 邱朗's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
353 views

What does it mean when lower management gets replaced very frequently? [closed]

I have been working for one company for a bit over a year. The local manager (i.e. local to the city) never lasts more than 1 or 2 months. We are never given a reason why they quit or were fired. This ...
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