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Salary appraisal didn't go as planned, discussion with manager seemed to have backfired. What should I try at this point?
I have been in my current job for past 5 years working under the same line manager in a multinational organization. I was working from offshore office for the past 4 years and my manager was in US. I ...
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Is it worth making amends with a toxic ex-manager?
I had a very toxic and narcissistic "manager" in my past role. He joined as a senior although other people including me had more experience than him; and soon after, due to lack of enough ...
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How to assist the improvement of company quality by stopping some very low qualities practiced by coworker
This is regarding a problem occured in a work place where a majority of workers are doing gossiping, backbiting and undermining, kind of they have adapted it like a cultural thing.
So, for short, they ...
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Need a work reference letter from current employer
I need to get a work reference letter on a business letterhead that states my duties and responsibilities for my role in my current job. This reference letter is for immigration purposes and I fear ...
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Should I tell my manager I did not like her tone and demeanor when she told me I did something wrong?
I work in the US in loan servicing in a bank in the corporate office. I am one year new to the industry and about 6 months new to my role. Several of my tasks are transactional. Yesterday, my Manager ...
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How to talk to manager to assign a task to someone else
I am working on a task at a software company for two weeks. Now I realize that one of the team members who guide me is too slow or confusing. I am unable to make much progress after a certain amount ...
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Is it the manager's job or the employee's job to set expectations?
Who should set work expectations / goals? Employee or Manager?
Hoping some managers out there can weigh in.
I recently had a performance review that was lacking in some categories and was surprised as ...
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My job is has changed my schedule and is having me train in a different department that I do not feel comfortable in, how do I say no?
I work in healthcare and I had my schedule finalized, and my supervisors changed it for training in an area I do not feel comfortable in.
This training is not required, how do I turn this down? I ...
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I feel like I am kind of being called out publicly for a mistake I made. Should I bring this up with my superiors or is it no big deal?
This is my first job and I'm just about a month in. My workplace uses an app for staff to communicate with each other, and on this app a group chat has been made including myself and everyone in my ...
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How to resign in a way that will protect my friend but expose my manager?
Recently, my friend told me that his workplace was hiring. I gave them a call, sent in my CV and they offered me the job.
My friend’s manager, now mine, has been a bit of a nightmare. Training was not ...
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What to do when my manager insists I have a dog? [closed]
I recently had a meeting with my manager. They were very insistent that I had a dog, asking how the dog was doing, talking about their dog, saying that her dog was playing up and that I no doubt know ...
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Manager is trying to force me to communicate
I am an apprentice at a company that shares office space with a totally different company (same CEO for both though).
I am only one of the two people (me and my manager) of my company working there, ...
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My boss says he's jealous when I tell him about a work achievement
On several occasions, where I've made a breakthrough in my (highly intellectual, but non-academic) work, I feel accomplished and very proud of my achievement. But, when I go and tell my boss about ...
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How should I push back against people arguing that they don't need to help me? [closed]
I work in an office. I'm in a new hire set of 4 cubicles that they put near the kitchen. The other 3 cubes are empty, no one sits near me. The IT setup is that we use a desktop computer with a ...
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Should I talk to my manager about a snarky/rude task lead?
Currently, I am working on a new technology (for me) which my manager is aware of and thus assigned said task lead to help and guide me through what I need to do as things/issues come up. However, ...
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Manager is directing me to behave in a way I believe is unprofessional
My manager asks for updates on what I'm working on several times throughout the day.
Lately when he finds out I'm working with someone else on something, he wants to know who's holding up the project.
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Manager trying too hard to persuade me to stay on team
Due to some recent changes in my life, I decided I need to start working remotely. When I discussed the topic with manager, he was sympathetic but explained that the work-in-office policy came from ...
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Is my boss insecure?
I'm struggling with my boss --- not for the first time.
I'm the kind of person that likes knowing what is expected of me, learning how to do it, and then working hard to excel at it.
What I am ...
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Manager does not reply to my message for days. What should I do if he ignores my follow-up message?
My message is regarding a time-sensitive issue. It's not a complicated question though, as it just requires a yes or no answer.
He read my message on the chat program we use, but he did not make a ...
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How should I manage conflicting schedules from project managers who refuse to communicate with each other?
My manager left the company a few weeks ago. Instead of replacing him, the organization was re-structured so that I have 4 contracted project managers. They all micromanage everyone's hours and ...
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Constant updates to future employer on present situation
I recently signed an offer letter with another department within the same organization I work at and I'm wondering how best to handle a few issues. Unfortunately, due to immigration delays, a quick ...
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How do I Help a Team Member Recognize the Relative Importance of Their Project
I find myself in the curious case of trying to partially de-motivate someone, some background:
I am the team lead of a ~30 person team ranging from interns and new college grads to senior folks with ...
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How to ask manager to split payment for upcoming training I want to attend
I am a technical team lead on the information security team where I work. Our team and company encourages employees to pursue training and employees have a wide choice in how they want to pursue ...
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How can I discuss with my manager that I want to explore a 50/50 arrangement?
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I work at a large Dutch, not-for-profit, partially government backed organization for 2+ years and have (in my eyes) favorable working conditions like a permanent contract, a pension, holiday ...
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How do I conduct myself when dealing with a coworker who provided me with bad data and yet keeps pushing responsibility for bad results onto me?
Some background will help me explain myself better - I maintain a software system that is used by the sales team. A sales person enters some data, then some complicated computations are done, and a ...
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How can I debate technical ideas without being perceived as arrogant by my coworkers?
I'm somewhat new in this job (6 months) as a frontend/backend developer. My boss, whom I consider a really capable and smart manager, has a system for measuring developer performance, in which I ...
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Bad performance review despite objective successes and praises
I started a job 8 months ago. The person who did it before was let go for performance issues. Before they chose me they spent 6 months looking for someone (while the previous guy was still there).
I ...
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How should I deal with coworkers who don't want to engage in small talk?
I work with a great team of people. I'm the only female, and I'm younger, while the others are middle-aged. We usually get along great, have fun, engage in ridiculous banter, and share a lot of laughs....
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Transparent feedback about manager to skip-level manager
In my organization, we are required to give feedback to our skip-level manager about my manager (skip-level manager is my manager's manager). In this questionnaire, which is generally a set of ...
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How do I best pass on a manager's feedback to a colleague?
I've got a new(ish) colleague with whom I share a manager. I was tasked with onboarding the new colleague when they joined, although I think they're pretty settled in now. In a meeting with my manager ...
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What to do if manager repeatedly forgets aspects of the project?
I've been working on a project at work where my manager repeatedly forgets about different parts of the project. As a result almost on a weekly basis he asks the same questions about the project which ...
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How to make my manager use corporate communication tools instead of WhatsApp?
I have a manager who has created a WhatsApp group for his team. I personally do not like to use my own phone for work related things. (I have Slack and Teams installed so you can reach me through any ...
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How to deny boss's request to travel with him out of residence during pandemic
Our company is submitting a business proposal for which a meeting has been arranged by the potential client which is located in different city than my work location. While our company has numerous ...
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Hosting vendor consultant sends proposal to my manager without any background information
So unbeknownst to my manager, I've been pricing out different managed server companies to allow us to upgrade to a service with more flexibility and features. This is going to be significantly more ...
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How can I handle lack of respect from co-workers and lack of discipline from managers
I'm an administrator for an estate. A large part of my role is checking up on the paperwork and standards of the work of other colleagues. The concierge team are supposed to hand in paperwork to the ...
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Already full with tasks, and will probably be assigned to coach new hires. How should I handle this?
Say I am a programmer with a system called ABC and manager / everyone thinks that I am good at this. In reality I am not but just about surviving by working hard and just about manage my day with ...
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How to deal with responsibility enough to manage people but not enough to delegate and make my work easier
In my current company, I have been climbing non-stop for two years, to the point where I have now people I am responsible for.
From the get go, I had to work over time since the job demands a lot, ...
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How to approach my manager when he's describing our product incorrectly?
Sometime ago my manager changed and the new one never bothered to understand the product we're delivering. Because of that whenever he's giving a description of our product it varies between a bit ...
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My boss hasn't called me in a week even though she said she would, what should I do?
Location is in the U.S., if that's relevant.
I just got hired and went through orientation at this company and the manager told me she would call me to schedule my first shift but it's been 9 days ...
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"Oversee" a project in absence of manager and team lead
We're working on a project, and both the manager in charge and the team lead have gone off-site for some conference. Because of this, they won't be able to actively manage the project.
Since it's an ...
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What to do when the manager of neighbouring team wants me to help out but not willing to train me
So the structure in our team is that several managers work under a senior manager, and each manager is in charge of one or two analysts. I am an analyst under Manager A, but sometimes Manager B comes ...
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No communications from company headquarters after local branch managers have all left together
I work for a company that has a big headquarters and 14 or 15 smaller local branches in different cities across the country. I work in one of the newest and smallest branch, opened in 2016 with a ...
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How do I get my boss to understand that I won't be able to attend a required session to visit a tranquility retreat?
I'm a 41-year-old single mom of one, with a 15-year-old daughter, Becky (not her real name). Becky has Asperger's Syndrome, diagnosed aged 8. She can't fully live independently and has some issues ...
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How to address organizational problems when I have a soft-spoken manager?
There are a few organizational-level problems at my company that I have tried to constructively highlight so that the appropriate parties can address them, but to no avail. I, myself, am in a standard ...
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Unable to meet goals when manager keeps busy in things which are outside the ambit
I joined a new company two months back. I committed to the CEO to meet certain goals within 3 months timeframe. CEO has a lot of expectations from me. Two months have passed and it seems I will not be ...
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Too many pull requests in backlog
I work in a small company, and my manager is involved in managing 2 projects as well as doing his own coding. I am increasingly frustrated as there is a queue of 50 Pull Requests waiting to be either ...
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Owner is determining raises based on customer work
Each year the company owner determines raises to go out to each employee. This year I accidentally read a memo addressed to HR that a lot of weight will be given to how "billable" an employee is. ...
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How to deal with manager who refuses to communicate with a team member?
One of the newly appointed managers always keeping an eye and criticizing the habits of one of the employees. He always keeps getting frustrated for one or another reason because of him, As being ...
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Should I tell my manager that I am being targeted by the team?
There were some lay offs recently, and I have noticed that I am being targeted by the team as a prompt to be the next to get laid off. For example:
Performance hits by decreasing estimates of my work....
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(Would be) teammate called me privately to tell me he does not wish to work with me
I've never faced anything of this sort before.
I interviewed at this firm for a position, for which I was rejected, but after the interview the manager requested if he could hold on to my resume for ...
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