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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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