The Workplace Stack Exchange is a Q&A site about the workplace and other career-related topics. With your help we're working to build a library to every question about the workplace related to:
- Finding employment (resumes/cv/cover letters, recruiters, hiring-managers, interviews, negotiations, etc.)
- Maintaining employment (promotions, pay increases, harassment, bullying, poor working conditions, communication problems, etc.)
- Leadership in the workplace (motivating people, encouraging people, making decisions, holding hard conversations, intervening in unproductive situations, asking for and giving help, etc.)
- Terminating employment (notice period, breaking the news, handing over work, reference letters, relieving letters, etc.)
What questions are off topic here?
Questions seeking company-specific advice on workplace regulations or policies, or legal advice
Questions that lack a clear goal we can address or focus on ranting about problems rather than trying to solve them
Questions asking for advice on a specific choice (including reviewing resumes, CVs, cover letters, e-mails, as well as specific salaries, billing rates, market worth, etc.)
Questions that aren't a good fit for the Stack Exchange format (see also Good Subjective, Bad Subjective for information on how to ask a subjective question suitable for the Stack Exchange format)
Still not sure?
- Many questions here describe challenging situations in the workplace. As you have written your question, have you taken the time to formulate a real, answerable, question? For example, "What should I do about an arrogant co-worker?" is not answerable, but "What can I say to my arrogant co-worker to ask her advice with my project?" is answerable.
- Ask for help in our chat room The Water Cooler (requires 20 reputation)
- Ask a question on The Workplace Meta about a specific question or rule
- Look for another Stack Exchange site that may be a better fit for your question
- If there isn't a place on the Stack Exchange Network where your question fits, you can create a new proposal for that topic on Area 51