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Tagged with management new-job
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Manager did not give clear answer when I asked for a day off
I recently started a new job. I asked my manager if I could take a day off next week for a family obligation. He said I hadn't been with the company long enough to use my vacation time. I found this a ...
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Manager not telling me in advance where I'll be working
I started a new job about a month ago. I'm in the IT department of a medium sized company. They have two offices that are relatively close together. When I accepted the job I understood that I would ...
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Feeling like a fraud at a startup I joined as an intern
TL;DR: Young inexperienced coder gets an internship, gets offered a stake in the start-up he's working for, and now feels like a big fraud.
Some context
I'm a coder from an undisclosed European ...
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How should I tell my boss that I'm going away for another company?
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I'm 21, and I've started my path for my current company when I was 16 in a school internship. Then for all next years every internship or every holidays I was working for them as a software ...
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How to get more recognition for taking extra shifts
Where I work I often agree to take extra shifts when someone else can't make their shift upon my manager's request. I've been doing this often and don't feel like I'm getting recognition. (I make the ...
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Boss introduced my soon-to-be right hand via email. How to proceed now?
I recently accepted a new job and I'll be starting in a couple of weeks. The entire interview process has been online (video chat) because of Covid.
I'll be leading a team. Obviously, I have not met ...
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Boss used my sensitive PII data without authorisation
I work on the CRM system in a large recruitment agency in the UK. I applied for several jobs through job boards and spoke to a recruiter from the same agency as we work for and we discussed what I was ...
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Added to new employer's repo and working on a new version during off-hours
I am starting a new Software Engineering position in a month or so, but, the manager I will be reporting to added me to the repo of the current codebase of the software I will be working on when I ...
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Pay increase for management responsibilities
I am currently looking for a new job and wanted some salary advice. I am a visual designer specialising in creating design systems for companies to help create consistency across their sites / ...
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When to inform boss, something wasn't my fault
In general I have a difficult time knowing when to defend my position that a mistake was not my fault. I'm working in a retail store right now, but I've had this question in other environments.
Where ...
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Mistake during internship
I've been an intern at a company for a little over a month and I have made a mistake. For context, this same mistake was once made by my manager when I first started and they pinned it on me, so this ...
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How to let boss know I would prefer to get corrective feedback than wait until it becomes an issue
I started a new job 2 weeks ago working at a retail liquor store. Multiple people have told me it's a laid back job, but I still want to do well in it even if I don't plan on being there a long time.
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Something came up and could only give 4 days notice of missing work. This may have made it seem not urgent
I recently started a new job. I had a dentist appointment that didn't fix a problem (actually I think it made the problem worse). My mouth started hurting more and more to the point where I had to ...
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How to phrase a procedural question in a constructive way?
On a few occasions I've gotten feedback about the way I ask questions. It's been difficult to find a common theme but I think sometimes I ask questions in a way that annoys people, maybe because it ...
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When starting a new job, how to ask what they consider most important in a work style?
I've held several jobs where it was not apparent to me right away what management considered most important. Sometimes the jobs were exactly the same but because of the order of priorities they were ...
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