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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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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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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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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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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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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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Should I approach my manager about an incompetent tech lead?
I work as an engineer in a team structured as follows
project manager (my manager)
└─── lead data scientist (my technical lead)
└─── me (and other engineers)
Unfortunately, I'm not convinced ...
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Remote manager keeps taking it out on the same colleague
I am a young software developer working in a big french tech company. There is this toxic relationship between one of my colleague and our manager that I am really concerned about. There has been many ...
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How to deal with offensive jokes from our client's project manager?
I work for a government contractor as a third party independent contractor for about a month now. I directly report to and take orders from the government employee that I interviewed with before ...
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To a senior or superior, do you suggest or do you recommend [closed]
I am a long time colleague with several coworkers who are senior in position to me. I am wondering, which term to use when I want to provide my two cents. Do I the term "suggest" or do I use the ...
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How to politely avoid answering questions about a possible new job when resigning?
I have been in my current position for 7 months.
I want to hand my notice in soon because I do not like the job and the experience has been negative, but I dread answering questions from my colleagues ...
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How can I tell my coworker to work on the most important project instead of what he likes
I am a software engineer and I work on a team of 3.
A colleague of mine is a very qualified software engineer.
However, he does not focus on the most important project (as defined by our manager). ...
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