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Tagged with manager work-environment
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Can my boss say/do this [closed]
I have a question but in order to ask I need to explain quickly.
On a Friday I had heard a staff member of discriminating against another staff member I directly told her that what she said sounds ...
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Manager ignores my requests for clarification on projects
I have an issue for the first time in my job. I have recently moved teams and started working in a completely new team.
I’m quite new, less than 2 months and for the first month there were no projects ...
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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 do you handle a coworker who does not know how to work in a team? [closed]
I've been seven months in a small company of thirty people, I work with another guy, who also happens to be one of the first employees of the company, in the same project.
This guy does not use the ...
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How to respond when asked to work with a technology you have not worked with yet?
I am currently working in a software development company. During team meeting my reporting manager asked me to look into issues related to node.js (one of the technology) whereas till date I worked ...
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Should I take a vacation 4.5 months after starting a new job
I am having a difficult time understanding what my manager wants. He is always polite when he speaks and in his words he said “I totally support you going on this trip, family is important so you ...
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How would it be perceived by future employers if I had quit my job just after one month in, due to the work culture not being suitable for me? [closed]
I am from south Asia and I am thinking about quitting the current job which I joined a month ago. Reasons are,
500 developers are working in a single git repository ( backend, frontend, tools etc ) ...
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Should I ask my line manager whether I should apply for another job?
I'm currently working on an hourly contract with this company, I love the job and I love the environment and my team, however, my contract is only 6 months (I'm covering for someone taking a ...
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Gave a bad feedback to an employee on an appraisal and my manager has basically demoted me
I'm the marketing manager of a very successful start-up and the social media manager who I have been managing for the past two months and a half is really bad. She's incompetent, she's a bad colleague ...
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How to gain business acumen while in a business analyst role?
Sorry for the long post.
I'm working in an e-commerce firm. I have 4 years of experience working with SQL, Python and a handful of BI Tools that I have grown very comfortable working with. I feel that ...
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Should I report my manager?
At my place of work, we have many employees who
Refuse to do their assigned work
Do others' work and not their own
Abandon their workspace whenever
Yell at customers
Just leave whenever things start ...
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Everyone suddenly started ignoring me! [closed]
I had some problems with my manager that she refused to discuss, so I decided to stop trying. Due to the nature of my work, I had to travel to another country. I left in good terms with everyone, I ...
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How to deal with a boss who is trying to make you quit
I work in company which does outsourcing to various clients.
My first project assigned was related to DHCP for a client which does network software. The implementation and testing took about 3 months (...
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How do I handle malicious coworker making work unbearable
I recently started working for a small team. At the same time company hired another person for the same position. We were meant to form two person team, because our competences are complementary. That'...
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When in a conflict with someone, should I tell them that I intend to speak to their superior?
In a workplace, if there is a conflict with a coworker, the best approach is to talk to the coworker about the problem directly. If a resolution cannot be reached, one can then try talking to the ...
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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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How should I face my manager if I make a mistake because a senior coworker explained something incorrectly to me?
I work as a software engineer, in this situation we have two people, John and Mike, John is my boss and Mike my teammate.
John ordered me to do a task that I didn't know how to do exactly, the task ...
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What to say in one on one with a manager that's not my boss
There are several questions here and other articles on the web about how to handle one on one meetings with your manager. I have a weird situation and need advice about a strategy in this case.
The ...
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Group manager threw me under the bus to save her friend
I am at a bit of a loss as to what to do.
Back story: I was put on a project that was far behind and was very low developer quality adhering to no set of standards or practices. The project was not ...
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What's the most polite way to tell a manager "shut up and let me work"?
I'm the youngest/most junior in my office and often one of my managers will come and give me something to do or change some requirement for a project, then just stand behind my desk repeating the same ...
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Many employees including my manager leave their computer unlocked - how to Enforce good practice? [duplicate]
My manager constantly leaves his computer unlocked. The problem is that he's the IT director, and I'm the IT Systems Administrator, and I leave my computer locked whenever I'm not near it. How can I ...
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How to deal with a manager who is bad-mouthing my client?
I'm currently working in a small team where my client can be seen as my line-manager, although he is not. My client and me are working for department X of the group Z. I'm contracting.
Another team, ...
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How should I tell my manager I'm not paying for an optional after work event I'm not going to?
My manager planned a night at the ball park work event. She asked us all to reserve a ticket by putting $10 down a couple weeks ago. It was made clear to me that this reservation was not requiring me ...
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Humiliated in front of employees
I work at a small company of about 20 people. We have the owner/president, 2-3 managers (depending on how you look at it), and the rest of the people are employees. I'm one of the managers.
Each day ...
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How do I handle a potential work/personal life conflict as the manager of one of my friends professionally? [closed]
I have a rather peculiar situation.
My wife and I have a couple who we are friends with, and recently the woman (let’s call her Jane) was hired in my company and works in my team (I’m her manager!). ...
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My manager is forcing me to clean, vacuum, wash, and take out the garbage during trade shows
I am a marketing project manager working in an American company based in France. This role includes planning and managing logistics for industry events. I am responsible of managing end-to-end all ...
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Is it my job as manager to resolve a conflict between two of my direct reports?
If as a manager you had a situation of conflict/friction between some team members, setting aside their responsibility to collaborate in improving the situation, do you also look deep into the root ...
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How to deal with favouritism and credit stealing [closed]
TL;DR: I can not leave my job right away, how to handle a situation where my manager is more lenient towards his favourite while maintaining (wittingly or unwittingly) a different array of ...
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What to do about manager who isn't assigning any work?
I was, a year back, reassigned from one job role where I had a manager who was assigning me plenty of work, to a new project role with a different manager, who generally isn't assigning me any work. ...
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I snapped on my boss, when and how should I apologize?
I recently snapped on my boss. He's the CEO of a small company.
I regularly have scheduled meetings with another boss where you talk about work life, complaints, suggestions, etc. In the last year or ...
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Is it reasonable to send warning over a phone going off [closed]
I work as a software developer in an IT service company. Our office has about 50 people. Usually we have our phones on silent mode. Once in a while (approx 1-2 times a month) a phone goes off, since ...
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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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