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How can I get out of meetings? [duplicate]
We have a LOT of meetings at my job.
Individual departments have meetings. Then, people from every department have cross-department meetings to make sure everyone is on the same page. Somehow ...
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Meeting starting before I'm contracted to start working
My scheduled hours of my office are 09:30-17:30, and we have a big project starting, which will cost the company lots of money if it fails.
The project manager for this project has scheduled ...
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Juggling Projects in a Matrix Management Organization [closed]
I keep running into this problem over and over when I work in relatively large companies with a matrix management organization.
Basically, I deal with multiple concurrent projects. My "deliverables" ...
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What's the most efficient way of tracking employee hours?
I'm trying to change the way we do things at our company of 10 people. We can't afford, or better we don't need a full time HR person. Most of our company comprises of developers, and historically ...
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How to co-ordinate working hours for a team distributed across time zones?
I am working very closely with a couple of other developers across time zones between North America and Europe. We all have flex hours and it's proving difficult to be online together at the same time ...
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What to do after I finish all my tasks and my manager has no tasks to give me?
Sometimes, after I finish all my tasks, my boss has no tasks to give me.
So I sit and feel bad I'm not doing anything.
Additionally, I'm not sure if I can surf the internet and mind my own business ...
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Is it okay to work on personal projects in my spare time at work?
About two months ago, I started work as a full time server administrator for a small company. I have almost nothing to do. I generally work 1-2 hours a day. There have only been two days where I ...
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What's a standard productive vs total office hours ratio?
So it goes like this: we are keeping track of tasks using Redmine. We log time spent doing tasks, but at the end of the week if we add up all the time spent at those tasks there is no way a person has ...
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The “Help Me” Nag
For the past few months, I have been constantly haunted by a team member for "help". This dude continues to play ignorant and gets me to do his work. I am stuck, can you help, and get me to sit in his ...
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How should research work be waged?
I am a young aerospace enthusiast and have just completed BA in computer engineering and am currently enrolled in MD. Besides this I am working for an aerospace engineering company where I work on ...
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How to deal with hundreds of unread mails after an absence?
I'm in a situation where I'm away from my corporate mailbox for a few weeks. I have an autoresponder set up that says when I'll return and who to contact in urgent cases. Nevertheless, you can imagine ...
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How do I politely ask about the “urgency” of a work request - i.e. what date should it be completed by?
I work in an IT Help Desk role, and I often get requests that have vague "due-dates". So maybe a Project Manager wants a large database pull, which will take at least a week of my time.
But they ...
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Saying no to project managers?
There are 5 project managers who keep coming to me and insisting that their requests are urgent and I find myself switching between 4 different projects, while I am supposed to work on only 1 project ...
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What can I do at work when I have no work?
I am a chemical engineer, and I have been spending much of the last two months doing nothing (either surfing the web or chatting with other employees) since my project has been very slow. The company ...
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Am I damaging my reputation by arriving and leaving on-time?
I work 9am-5pm, 5 days a week as an employee (not contractor). I'm fairly strict with myself in only doing work at work and making the absolute most of my time away from work. This means I will ...
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How to convince employees that IM and Facebook during work is unethical?
I believe that the employer pays employees their salaries to keep working for 8 or 7 hours daily and he didn't agree while signing the contract that there is few hours daily for chat with friends, ...
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My manager always seems too busy to meet with me. How can I improve that?
He's a great guy, but it feels like he's always in meetings or going to conferences or on the phone on long calls. He has told me that he really enjoys those interactions. He and I work somewhat ...
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How can I remain productive in meetings? [closed]
I often have meetings during which I'm only relevant at one time or another. Usually I bring a notepad and doodle or just zone out.
Instead, I'd like to be more productive, while also remaining at ...
