Questions tagged [colleagues]
Questions regarding the people one works with. This includes questions about communication, teamwork, or other issues caused by ones co-workers.
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How to deal with a colleague who is being aggressive?
I’ve found that a relatively new addition to our team is being needlessly aggressive and I’m not sure if I should speak to them or our mutual manager about this face to face, or try some other ...
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Teammate is avoiding me but won’t tell me why
One of my colleagues seems to have an issue with me. We were friends before I joined the company, he even referred me to the position I’m now in. He actually tried to get me on his team when I had ...
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Team has team lunch everyday, am I forced to go?
I don't want to join my colleagues for lunch, but I am an intern so joining is important for relationship building.
I don't know how they manage to have lunch everyday together but they do. Am I ...
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First project as Dev Lead: Which questions to ask to get solid feedback? [on hold]
I'm a mid level developer and I recently (successfully) completed my first project where I was acting as the lead developer.
It was a fairly small situation: I was assigned to build something out ...
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1answer
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Dealing with a co-worker in development undermining teamwork
My issue is on how to deal with obnoxious, conniving co-workers. I have never had an issue with the older team of developers back in the day; we then hired a phd graduate who worked in academics for a ...
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4answers
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Boss stalling on raise he acknowledges I deserve [on hold]
I would like to start off with the fact that I am not the smartest or greatest developer by any means, but I do have a good work ethic and finish my tasks, although it may take longer than others do. ...
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24answers
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Team member is vehemently against code formatting
I am the manager of a small team of developers (5 engineers, including me).
A few months ago, on the suggestion of another colleague we introduced
mandatory code formatting in the code base, for our ...
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3answers
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How to like somebody who you dont like at work? [closed]
I guess its the most natural of all feelings, some people we like, others we dont. But at work, wanting to be professional and to the advantage of the business, I believe collaboration is best when ...
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Should I send a “thank you” message to someone who forwarded it to a colleague?
I would need some advice about the customs of answering with a "thank you" message to someone who forwarded my mail to a colleague.
To give you more context, I was contacting this person for the ...
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3answers
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How to phrase negative feedback to senior coworker about unwise jokes?
My company has a tool that they use for requesting & providing feedback from others in a respectful & productive way (for both positive & negative feedback). It has a list of standard ...
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12answers
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Many employees including my manager leave their computer unlocked - how to Enforce good practice? [duplicate]
My manager constantly leaves his computer unlocked. The problem is that he's the IT director, and I'm the IT Systems Administrator, and I leave my computer locked whenever I'm not near it. How can I ...
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5answers
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Colleague overloaded with work, does not realize problem
TL;DR: My colleague receives way too much work and intends to work on holidays, without realizing the problem let alone airing it to management. How can I convince her to discuss with her manager?
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How to deal with relatively technically incompetent coworker?
I'm a software engineer. I work in a mid-sized startup that is growing very, very fast. Overall, I love my job, my coworkers and the atmosphere.
One thing about my company is that most staff have ...
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9answers
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Employee wants to bring in his dog for a kids event
I was surprised that our company didn't do anything for national Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, so I volunteered to organize our own version of it (just calling it Bring Your Child to Work ...
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2answers
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How to get project manager to be in charge of communications with the client?
I am developer in a technology consulting company, where each developer is assigned to multiple client projects simultaneously. Each client project has a designated project manager who is responsible ...
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How do you deal with a coworker who seems provoke you constantly?
I just switched jobs (I work on Qt based display codes; currently assigned to fixing assigned issues/bugs) in December. I was assigned to a project; good manager, okay-ish work, a polite client. All ...
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3answers
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How to be confident/assertive? [closed]
How to be assertive?
Yesterday one girl from my office asked me to change with places where we seat (she sits very far away like far behind from team, alone). She did it in front of other people like ...
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1answer
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How to deal with a manager who is bad-mouthing my client?
I'm currently working in a small team where my client can be seen as my line-manager, although he is not. My client and me are working for department X of the group Z. I'm contracting.
Another team, ...
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1answer
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Senior developer peer pressures me into getting cakes [closed]
I am the junior developer in a team of two in the UK and my senior developer calls me selfish and peer pressures me into going upstairs into an office of 30+ people and getting cakes to bring back ...
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7answers
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How can I persuade colleagues to turn their computers off when leaving the office?
Most of my colleagues leave their laptops on when they go home - even over the weekends. I regard this as a colossal waste of electricity, especially when we have a public holiday coming up next ...
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3answers
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What is the best way to motivate your peers to “go read up about it” vs. explaining them everything at that instant?
We have many cases where colleagues with different experience levels are in a meeting and discussing potential software design(s). And another set of engineers who don't "get it" and would rather ...
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How to stop co-workers from teasing me because I know Russian?
I work on a team of 8 people for a U.S financial company, and a few weeks ago, a business meeting with some clients overseas was taking place. My manager asked us in an e-mail if anyone can speak and ...
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How do I deal with a coworker that keeps changing the look of a report I'm building, without documenting the changes in a design template?
Ideally this was to be an easy project. Create a report for a website. Something like this:
I am provided a template (drawn up by graphics designer)
I implement/update the programming to match (...
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2answers
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Bringing up a slow colleague in a nice way
I am a mid-level developer and leading a project at my company. I am very strongly encouraged to pair with another dev who is relatively new (half a year now). He is a good guy, but working with him ...
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4answers
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How can I deal with a coworker who only yells?
This isn't a case of workplace aggression, just some guy I work with who only yells to communicate. He's not mad ever, he just only talks in a super loud voice. Everyone tells him to talk quieter and ...
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1answer
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Is what happens at this company common? [closed]
Given the below information is this sort of situation with my company common or unusual?
The company I work for is a small startup. I am a software developer and have been there for a year. ...
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4answers
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New hire (closing on 4 months) is inadequate, and I am torn between telling my boss or just keep quiet
My company has basically 3 tiers of data scientists:
junior, associate, and senior. I am myself an associate. Juniors should be under the supervision of another employee, associates should be able to ...
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11answers
34k views
Co-worker works way more than he should
I work in a research facility in Germany. I have lots of co-workers that are from other countries, mostly part of some international collaborative research projects.
There's one guy from China who's ...
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3answers
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When do I bring up unwelcome news?
In the past I tended to break unwelcome news when I was expecting attendees to be least stressed & most likely to have time to discuss about immediate concerns - staying clear of any special ...
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3answers
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How do I communicate my peer's incompetence to our manager?
I have been at my current job about a year (hired fresh out of college). About six month ago my manager left and I came under the management of another senior lead (who was not formerly focused ...
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5answers
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Co-worker has annoying ringtone
There is a co-worker who has this annoying ringtone of "In the end - Linkin park" and gets about 10 to 15 calls every day. Every time his phone rings I get really annoyed. I feel like I should tell ...
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6answers
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Hostile co worker
My team was approached today by our manager.
Background: We have a hostile co worker. He's aggressive, sarcastic, rude to clients and managers. About 4 months ago he out of the blue stopped talking ...
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4answers
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Should I point out my colleague's mistakes in this situation? [duplicate]
Last week I was assigned a project by our manager. I started it and worked on it in between some priority work which came up. The project was stuck. So our manager and I decided to forward the ...
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Some one else is taking credit for the work I have done [duplicate]
I have joined a new, big company very recently (a month ago).
I work as software engineer.
I have noticed that something was not done correctly, so I created a pull request for the refactoring and ...
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3answers
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How to handle hostile comments by the CTO which imply I'm making mistakes?
UPDATE AFTER ONE MONTH
I wish I'd trusted my instincts: this initial bad treatment was a big red flag.
I was hired to replace someone else who quit because of the CTO.
The bad treatment has only ...
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3answers
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Is there a polite way to tell a coworker to leave me alone? (subtlety hasn't worked) [closed]
I work with a coworker who is a chatterbox.
He loves talking regardless who it is - clients, coworkers, random telemarketing guys, recruiters, you name it, he doesn't need a reason to start blabbing. ...
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11answers
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How to react to hostile behavior from a senior developer?
I started working at Dec 2018, currently, there is only me and the senior developer and we sit next to each other.
He comes to work really early and leaves early.
When I started working I noticed ...
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2answers
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Co-worker's music [duplicate]
How do I tell a co-worker to turn off her music or at least wear headphones? My boss seams to be ok with her listening to the music, but it really bothers me. I have tried to ask her to shut her door ...
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2answers
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Should I address a coworker's performance when working in a temporary team? (software development, no real oversight)
I'm a developer who just started doing some consulting work at a small third party company on a temporary basis (a few months). I was asked to help out on a small side project in a different team, as ...
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6answers
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Shall I report my organization's bad social media posts to my organization?
My company often posts really bad social media posts. It is not opinion based, these are objectively bad posts that consistently contain : typos, poorly cropped pictures and overall nonsense.
The ...
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4answers
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How to deal with a coworker who may be depressed
Recently an intern joined me to work on a project. We are the only people working on this project. A month went by and it was going well; he was completing all the tasks in time and has the talent to ...
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2answers
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How to deal with colleague's extreme inflexibility and communication issues [closed]
I'm managing a colleague who is on the Autism spectrum. I find it quite challenging.
For example, he's really inflexible. We have some regular tasks we perform, which aren't very important in the ...
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3answers
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Is it OK to tell my colleague her constitution is amazing?
This is a follow-up of this question from the English StackExchange. I think my colleague's constitution is amazing for reasons given in that question: she tolerates cold better than the rest of us, ...
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2answers
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Should I ask about new intern behaviour? [closed]
I'm currently only going to the office 2 days a week. The rest of the time, I work remotely from home, so sometimes, I don't get some office news.
One of those days, I came in late, 9 am instead of 8 ...
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2answers
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What is the proper way to handle a situation where a coworker is asking repeatedly the status of their project, when it has not been started?
What is the proper way to handle a situation where a coworker (call them "Not-Started") is asking repeatedly, every day, in person, or via email the status on their project, when I am working on an ...
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How to balance my talkings with colleagues inside the workplace?
I'm working in a company as the only software developer and my co-workers which do website data entry need to talk to each other to proceed with their tasks.
My salary is about 4 times of them. So I ...
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9answers
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Should I tell a fellow intern that he won't be hired?
I am presently interning at a company as a part of my B.Tech curriculum. This is my final semester, and once this internship ends that is the end of my B.Tech degree.
One of my B Tech colleagues ...
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1answer
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How to write an email to inform the overseas colleagues that I return to work after the surgery?
Today I am back to work after having heavy surgery and a month of sick leave. I used to work with overseas colleagues and I'd like to inform them that I've come back to work. What is the best way to ...
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4answers
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Psychological domination and manipulation by a colleague
There is this female colleague in my office who is not strong technically. Yet, she manages to complete her work by taking help from the rest of the team.
Of late, I have been observing her and found ...
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2answers
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I'm a soon-to-be manager. But senior co-worker is slacking off AND forcing training that is demotivating new employees
I'm on the verge of being promoted to manager, but first I have to prove that I can actually manage a team. Or something like that. It's a raw deal.
A co-worker that has seniority over me was added ...
