Questions related to personal relationships in a work context.
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What should i do in such a position? [closed]
I am currently working for a start-up company and I believe I work hard (at least as hard as a fresher can).
My boss who also happens to be a close relative which I am grateful for the job he has ...
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1answer
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How can I organize client communications with a business partner? [closed]
I'm in the early stages of running an Internet Marketing company with business partner. We do design, development, SEO and PPC. My partner deals with clients/sales and I take care of ...
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438 views
How to deal with a colleague who mocks me?
A member of the team I work with is guy, who considers himself "super-smart". The guy makes snide remarks to me for no specific reason. I have not previously had such problems with others, so I can't ...
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1answer
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How to handle awkward relationship romance in a team?
My team has an awkward situation. Two of the team have been caught in various stages of undress in the stairwell and they disappear regularly. Job performance has taken a hit and both parties have ...
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7answers
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What information/guarantees should I get from a company in financial difficulty?
My current employer has been running in to financial difficulties and has fallen behind on salary for a month at times. We were not given a lot of information on what the cause of the financial ...
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5answers
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How can I minimise the damage to my career in this situation?
I am working for a small software company for the last 2+ years and the company is managed by a single person, so he can change the policy at any time without any notice. Recently he change the notice ...
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6answers
436 views
How to deal with a coworker that told you about the position and now feels he/she owns you?
I am currently working on a company I found through a compatriot who is currently my coworker, and I get the feeling that he is acting as if he owned me because he told me about the position the ...
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1answer
174 views
How to build a relationship with a remote team?
I am working as a UI developer in India for an MNC. Previously I worked as a developer in another organization. There are no issues with UI development or back-end programming. I really enjoyed both ...
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Employee Poaching
A competitor has been stealing employees from my company. We are partners, but we have recently undergone a rough patch while they are growing massively. About 8 of our former employees now work ...
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Working with an incompatible project leader
I am working in IT industry as a Sr developer. Recently there has been a change in my project and my project lead has been changed and now I am to report and work with this new lead. During last few ...
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4answers
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Suggestions for building relationships as a remote office worker?
I've started working remotely for a company a few timezones away. I'm not the most social person to begin with, but now that I can't even say "hi" in the hall,
How can I help remind people I exist?
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2answers
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Do you refer to someone you know by their professional title in an inverview?
I have an interview coming up. I have an MS and one of my friends from the program at the same time as me recently got his PhD. He is in what would be a managerial role were I hired. We knew each ...
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How to dismiss allegations of relationships
According to this Workplace.SE post, romantic relationships with co-workers/subordinates are discouraged due to perhaps the suspicion of unprofessional behavior. However, a co-worker (who is female) ...
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2answers
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How to deal with a colleague who doesn't want to collaborate?
I've described this problem in the letter to my boss.
I have a problem with N. This is my 3rd job and I've never experienced
this kind of communication problem before.
Our workflow assumes ...
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9answers
2k views
Why are romantic relationships with someone who works under you discouraged?
I run a small company and am wondering what the consequences are of starting up a romantic relationship with one of my employees, and how it will affect my business and relationship with other ...
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18answers
57k views
How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?
I'm the owner of a business with about 30-40 employees. Recently, I found out that one of my employees has been having an affair with my wife. The employee has worked for me for 4 years. I felt like I ...
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3answers
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How do I fix my reputation with a client when I fell through for a project?
So I've run into this predicament. I over-loaded myself with work and not enough time. Then, I became ill a couple of times which set everything back even more. Long story short, I had a communication ...
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5answers
803 views
How can I be assertive without being rude or offensive?
I consider myself a confident person in the workplace. Even though I do not consider myself an expert in my field, I really like discussing at the same level with experts in my job.
But when I'm ...
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4answers
336 views
How to meet former boss with who I have good relationship while I am in trouble?
I have a good work relationship with my former boss and who is now one of the influential person in higher management. Once I was in trouble at work when I was in another work location and he helped ...
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7answers
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How to deal with a team in which one of the members doesn't accept critique?
I'm currently working in a team where one of the members doesn't accept critique. Being from a high-rated school and considering himself an elite, this person doesn't like to be contradicted nor ...
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4answers
753 views
Why is it considered inappropriate to treat contractors the same as corporate associates?
HR and management have said things along the lines of "We aren't supposed to treat contractors like they're employees." Why is that the case? What benefit does the business gain by maintaining that ...
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5answers
852 views
How can you deal with receiving no job training without becoming a pest?
I have been in a situation before where I was essentially thrown into a job position with no training whatsoever. It was very much a "sink or swim" environment where I was expected to become ...
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3answers
1k views
How can you handle an office romance that has ended?
In the workplace, office romance is discouraged. However, it is one of the prime places in adulthood that relationships begin. What is the appropriate action to take when a serious or long-term ...
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3answers
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Severing the relationship with a recruiter
On the heels of the double-presentation question, I'm curious about the best way to sever ties with a recruiter who has represented me in the past.
Let's say I was presented by this recruiter to a ...
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4answers
681 views
How can I restore a work relationship?
When I joined the company my co-worker was very nice; he taught me a lot of things, always paid attention to my questions and he really tried to help the most he could.
However, as time passed and I ...
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2answers
598 views
How to deal with a “sensitive” employee [closed]
We have a new programmer starting on Monday (yay!). Both HR and the MD have raised concerns that he came off in the interview as both sensitive and very blunt.
We have a young office and most people ...
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4answers
621 views
Dealing with someone who thinks he's “divinely right”
I have recently come across the situation where I have to deal with the person (software architect) who seem to think that the software solution he had come up with is basically "divinely correct" and ...
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2answers
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Switching jobs - how soon is too soon?
My current (and first) job as a junior developer is ending and I need to take another one. I've received an offer in town that is fairly appealing, but for a variety of reasons I expect I'm going to ...
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4answers
570 views
Is it unprofessional to pursue personal relationships with site users?
As a community manager for a large internet company, I interact with our users (and moderators!) on a fairly consistent basis. In fact, I often spend large swaths of my day in the main moderator ...
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Can I pursue romantic relations with a client if our project is completed?
This actually happened to a friend of mine, who works as a management consultant. Her project (and work group) had her working closely with a Fortune 500 client, who had a team that worked with hers. ...
