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Tagged with manager work-environment
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How do you request your manager for a nap or sleep?
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What is a good way to request a manager to let me sleep somewhere for about 30 minutes when I am sleepy, without appearing lazy? I actually feel super productive after taking a short power ...
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Boss plays loud music affecting my concentration. How do I take this up with him? [duplicate]
I am a software developer, and recently joined a new company. Five of us, including my boss, work in a small office.
My boss plays music very loudly while he works — the kind you hear in nightclubs —...
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I returned from vacation to find my desk in a mess. How should I deal with this?
I work in USA as a Software Developer. I took a week off as a vacation, and came back today to see my desk in a mess: my 3 screens were unplugged and stacked, and there were cigarette ashes everywhere....
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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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Should i ask for more work , when i have completed all the tasks assigned to me for the day? [duplicate]
I work as software test engineer in a medium sized IT company. My lead usually assigns me task for the day which I try to finish asap. Sometimes when there is no build to test or when all the test ...
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Should I be fixing my boss's computer?
I work for a small company and am the lone IT person.
The owner has brought in his laptop that he's having network adapter problems with. I've spent some time getting it to work on the wireless ...
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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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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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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 deal with a boss who does not get involved in any social events?
Maybe this is common at most workplaces, but I find working hours to be so much longer and less fun because most of the communication between my boss and us are just about work. I have been in the ...
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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 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 (...