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How to deal with a boss who doesn't listen to you and keeps criticizing? [closed]
So, I have this CTO with 15+ years of experience in my small Software Development company, who is quite knowledgeable but is extremely proud of himself over his knowledge. Although he is good in terms ...
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How to explain the reason you left a job is because of lack of training provided by the previous team
I'm not sure if it's fair to directly say my ex-manager was not supportive. So I'll describe my struggles and feedback at my previous job first.
I changed jobs a few times after graduation to be ...
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Dealing with superiors that don't seem to know what I do in the project/company?
TLDR: I'm a Software Developer. A few months ago, I've been assigned to a new team, to work on a new company project. Whilst managing the team, it appears that my superiors often forget that I'm even ...
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Office manager smoking in office; how can we make this stop?
The office manager will often smoke in her office after 5:00 pm while some of us are still working.
The air conditioning carries the smoke into our offices. I have asthma/bronchitis and the smoke ...
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How can I deal with abuse by my boss? [closed]
I have had very difficult situations with my boss recently, with whom I have worked almost for a year. The recent events made me realize that she had created a hostile work environment for me and ...
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How to combat an experienced line manager who uses calculated silence effectively?
I'm a junior project engineer in small technical engineering team (not software or IT) and my line manager is an experienced technical person with extensive managerial experience. I have come up ...
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How can I better understand manager or clients with strong accents?
In most of my daily life, I can understand most of the American English(and some Chinese) speaking people I come into contact.
But in my office/workplace, there are more and more people with a heavy ...
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I cannot use some software support forums due to lack of an official phone number [closed]
Sometimes I need to access Microsoft forums, for example, to report bugs in Visual Studio, or ask some programing related question. The problem is that I cannot open an account in Microsoft websites, ...
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A colleague confided in me that she was [possibly] sexually harrassed by my manager, what can I do? [closed]
A couple of months ago a colleague of mine complained about one of our managers. The manager was disciplined for the inappropriate joke that he made. My colleague left the company shortly afterwards.
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How to address a non-compliance situation which is turning out productive
I work in a 50 odd employee start-up and I am in a senior techno-managerial role (reporting to CEO). Usually culture is fairly informal and lots of policies are not officially documented. Some emails ...
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Asking to be included in high-level conversations about my project
Background:
I recently graduated from university and started as an entry-level developer at a tech company. My job is focused entirely around one, fairly large project. In terms of knowing the ...
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Can a boss request from IT to change your password and log on your PC as you? [closed]
My Boss requested from IT to change my corporate password while I was out of office without telling me. He used the new password to log on my PC as me and copied my project (I don't know what else he ...
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How to convince manager for better computer accessories? [duplicate]
I work for a big publicly traded company which has a net income of several millions of dollars. After an office ergonomic evaluation, it was recommended that I be given 3-4 computer accessories (...
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Boss sent me an invitation to join an online freelancing community. Should I be worried?
I am two months into this new job, and yesterday I received an invitation to an open online remote/freelancing website from my direct manager. And it was into my personal email and not through the ...
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How to indirectly convince a superior to accept needed change to my team's task list
I'm moving into my second year as team lead for a small team. We work in a small Branch of a big company. We are all physically close and often cross paths and see what each other are doing, ...
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