Questions tagged [manager]
For questions related to the person responsible who evaluates your performance or oversees your work on a daily basis.
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Manager wrecking my time off
I'm on an expensive vacation and my project manager wrecked 2 of 3 vacation days by trying to "fix" issues without me. I spent the night before the main event debugging, until 3am.
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Should I ask for my wedding voucher? [closed]
A few years ago, my management organized a voucher contribution for one of the manager's wedding. We were not invited but each of us paid £30 to get her a voucher. I got married two weeks ago and my ...
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How to push back against request to use personal laptop at conference due to risk of machine compromise
I manage cybersecurity team of 10 where I work. A major part of our job duties is providing application security consulting and in house penetration testing for our many development teams.
Two months ...
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Asking employer to relocate me back to origin city after moving internationally
Around a year ago, I asked the company I work for to relocate me to a foreign country mainly for personal reasons, specifically to be close to family. In addition to this, I had the idea that it would ...
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How can I save a dating relationship when I am promoted and she will be in my vertical reporting chain?
I had been promoted to recently and my division at the company where I work is being reorganized.
I had been dating my colleague for slightly less than 1 year in which she was a previously a project ...
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Should I bring up my fear of being fired during my performance review with my manager?
In the company I currently work at, I noticed that on average people in my team leave at a rate of about 1 person a month. New people are being hired, but 1 person who was previously in the team ...
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How do we handle a situation when manager deliberately wants to spoil your hard work
my manager ; seems to be technical but having superiority complex in his nature. now he trying to pause my PR and gives un necessary comments and not once but once i fixed the code and then comment on ...
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HR came to me directly... what should I do
So I had been speaking with HR about an issue but decided not to move forward as it would mean I couldn't stay in my job. However my boss made my life miserable and I decided to leave - HR have ...
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How to give feedback when you haven't worked with someone for long enough to have good feedback?
I apologize for potential typos - English isn't my first language.
I work as a junior manager in a small fully remote company and recently we've been given a new senior manager after our previous one ...
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Should I disclose a mental disorder that's been impacting my job to HR/my boss?
There is an existing question about depression in a different situation (job seeking), and the answers are mostly about the obligation to disclose it and clearance issues, which is not really what I'm ...
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Response to Deliberately Vague Review Feedback
Background first: I've been crushing it since I landed at this team a year and change ago. The team lead left, I took their responsibility on, and I've excelled--deliberately so, as in tech there is a ...
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Co-Existing with a Highly Extroverted Leader and "Forced Fun"
I accepted what I thought was a "contract" position about a year ago but quickly learned that the expectation was to be a Full Time Employee without benefits. Here's what I mean:
The ...
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Started a new job, received minimal training. My manager is my main point of contact and is unapproachable [duplicate]
I started a new job 4 months ago and this was a career pivot for me as I entered a new industry. I also went from working for a company of 50 people to 15000 people so fairly new to the corporate ...
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Got verbal permission to use "Senior" title in flat organization
I work in the US as a software engineer. There are other developers here who are sometimes referred to as "Senior" engineers. I've been doing well at my job, and have developed a few ...
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Dating in the workplace
A co-manager would like to date a subordinate's sister, what are the ethics on a Manager dating a subordinate's family member?
