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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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What to do about a boss that doesn't know how to communicate [closed]
Here's my situation. I work as a web developer at a fairly large tourism company. Our dev department is really small though, there's me, one colleague who's on the same level as myself, and another ...
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How do I tell my boss that the noise he makes distracts me? [duplicate]
I am working in web development. I've recently started a new job at a small firm of 4 people. I'm the most senior person in terms of age and experience, and report to the CEO, who is younger than me.
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Intensely focused on work when I suddenly see manager behind me
I work as a software developer in a bullpen workplace, which looks something like the below picture1:
Since it is difficult to have prolonged periods of concentration in this environment, my ...
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For complaints do I address the individual causing the issue directly or talk to my manager? [closed]
When you encounter the case of someone continually causing problems in your making progress in your work, in which cases do you address this with that person talking to them directly and when discuss ...
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How to deal with a remote senior manager not answering to emails of new joiner [duplicate]
I am a new joiner in my company, its been 1 month.
I am working on a project with a counselor who is senior to me (works remotely) and we both share the same manager. My manager also sits remotely and ...
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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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