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Tagged with manager work-environment
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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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Tricky situation causing great mental fatigue
Context
Asking for my mum. She is a head at a warehouse. There is a new employee that has been causing some hassles. This has created some tension.
Description
The new employee, by all accounts, is ...
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Manager/coach not giving me proper credit for the projects I do. How to move forward?
I think I got a very toxic direct manager. I recently graduated college and this is my first job, don’t know what to do. So here’s a list of toxic things he’s done :
I discussed some ideas with him ...
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Co-worker avoided/missed answering part of an email. How do I politely remind them?
I wrote an email to someone who's a manager on another team, and there were two parts to it that were labeled 1. and 2., but she only answered the second question. I had CC'd two people in the email ...
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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 can we handle work-from-home requests from trainees/freshers in this coronavirus pandemic? [closed]
Background:
All the proper preventive measurements are being taken in the building
All senior members are reporting to the office, and talk is going on to allow work from home (WFH) for all
So ...
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How to find out why my manager doesn't like me?
I am good friends with a higher up who is not my manager but goes to management meetings with him. He told me that my manager doesn't like me very much, but he beat around the bush when I asked why ...
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Ex boss doesn't want me to work on a project---rest of the dev team wants to go behind their back
An odd situation has been arising at work, specifically within the team I'm on, and I wanted to ask about it here to see if anyone's been in a similar situation.
People:
BigBoss - Team head
ExBoss - ...
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What should I do about the negative feedback I received from my supervisor?
I have been working an entry level position in an R&D lab for 3 months now. This is my first job straight out of college and I have the lowest position at work. I didn't get any real training or ...
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Unreasonable Expectations at Work
I've been working at my current job at a software company of just over 100 employees, for just over a year now, as my first job out of university here in the UK. I'm employed as an Operations Engineer ...
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How to deal with a manager who deliberately overloads you with work
I work at an in-house creative agency as a UX/UI Designer. My line manger is the creative director, I am the only person in the team other than him who does UX UI work. It seems to me he believes that ...
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Boss asked for her feedback
My team lead asked me to give feedback for her. I don't know what should be the appropriate reply as I don't want to write something that might make her angry or upset. Also I can't simply be honest ...
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My Programming Manager constantly asks for updates and is never satisfied with my performance. How do I approach this? [closed]
I am an experienced Software Engineer and I have never faced this in my earlier roles. My Programming Manager does not have the tendency to wait. He is constantly asking for updates and never seems ...
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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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How do I handle unreasonable management? [closed]
In my workplace the 'little guys' tend to get it in the neck. There are, I believe numerous issues within management, causing the bulk of the stress the workforce experiences, but the team I'm part ...
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