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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Scheduling a meeting where I bring up unpleasant news, is minimizing momentary disruption a good goal?
A few IT tasks are going to be outsourced, in fact reducing my own workload. Non-gradual change is unavoidable, exceeding my usual tolerance for such. This is going to be disruptive to the workflow of ...
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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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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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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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Should I point out my colleague's mistakes in this situation?
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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How to handle hostile comments by the CTO which imply I'm making mistakes?
I'm a senior software dev at a new job. Company has fewer than 30 employees. As I write this post, I've just finished my second day of work.
Most everyone is also very experienced. They're friendly ...
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Is there a polite way to tell a coworker to leave me alone? (subtlety hasn't worked) [on hold]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Work mate who isn’t sharing load [closed]
Within my team most of us have an area of speciality (sometimes this overlaps) but there are some basic daily tasks that we all share - our instructions being that we help each other out.
There’s a ...
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Dealing with conflict between co-workers for non-work-related issue affecting their work
TL;DR version at the end.
I am the unofficial head of a 10 person research team staffed mostly by medical professionals and I seem to have found myself in a bit of a pickle.
After a grueling 6 month ...
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Dealing with unproductive long term colleague? [duplicate]
I started at this company in Europe 5 months ago.
I was placed in a small team within a company of about 150 people. This team is a stand-alone team and does not collaborate with any of the other ...
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How do I deal with an unproductive colleague in a small company?
I am an employee in a small company (under 30 people). I have a colleague who is basically not really productive. We've been at the company for about the same amount of time, and we both joined while ...
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Indicating to non-invited people I wasn't told to invite them without accusing my coworkers
I recently began a new project with new coworkers. The project being huge, it involves 100+ people whom I have to talk to and work with on a regular basis. I don't know everyone and everyone's role ...
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How to deal with coworker committing and pushing nonsense changes directly to master? [closed]
Given that I am the least experienced in this place I thought in the beginning it's normal what a coworker is doing, committing and pushing nonsense changes directly to master including broken parts. ...
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I think my boss logged into my facebook account and started seeing my private messages! [closed]
three days ago my coworker who sits next to me told me:
You leave your Facebook account logged in!
I told him "what?" he said that he turned on my computer once and saw it logged in, when I went ...
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Is it professional to ask a coworker to turn off the chat notification sound?
I have a coworker at a job which I just started, in an open concept office, who runs Slack and maybe once every three minutes I'm treated to the ping pong sound of notifications. I'm somewhat afraid ...
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Is it professional to write unrelated content in an almost-empty email?
I am employed in a consultancy company and I work at the client workplace. Monthly, I have a client employee sign a timesheet to certify the number of hours I have actually worked.
I then scan the ...
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A coworker distracts me too often
I am a software developer. I work in a relatively small company (30/40 people) and we are all in the same open space. I am the lead of the iOS team, and I have a problem with the lead of the Android ...
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How should I tactfully let my coworker know I'm uncomfortable being alone with someone else in a closed-off room? [closed]
I often have to work in our server room with a colleague, doing things like racking new systems, replacing drives, diagnosing issues, etc. It's a super loud room with around 50 units going at once, so ...
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Is it in bad taste to ask a quitting coworker where they are going next?
I work as a software engineer in an engineering company. Over the years colleagues came and went, and a few of the people I know well have left too. I am generally a curious person so when I heard ...
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Fellow Scrum team member appears disengaged from stand ups, scrum master hasn't addressed it - what can/should I do? [closed]
I'm a member of a Scrum team in a matrix managed organisation (as a QA, my actual boss is the QA Manager who has other QAs in other scrum teams as well, but day-to-day I report progress/blockers etc ...
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Feeling like a female version of Cassio [closed]
Kindly refer to this question for more details about me.
Multiple offers with varied benefits
So, I joined this wonderful company, was happy with my work and everything seemed to be fine. I was ...
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Trouble understanding the speech of overseas colleagues
All of my development colleagues (software development company) are based overseas in India (I'm in the UK). I'm in a junior position and a lot of my development relies on being taught how to do ...
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What is normal when you get fired from a larger company?
Last week I was fired from a 500+ person company for reasons I won't talk much about, but it was on the verge of a wrongful termination. Let's just say my old boss lied to get me fired since he didn't ...
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Co-worker/friend asking for a code review
I have a co-worker who I got to know through a mutual friend before we started working for the same company, although he s been working in the company for a year more than me, he was kinda relaxed and ...
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How to say to my boss that our new sysadmin is a disaster at work?
I really hate to judge people, but the new sysadmin that was hired by the company that I work is really bad at work. When my boss hired him, he already knew that this new guy didn't know too much ...
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Should I talk directly to colleague or go directly to HR for inappropriate behavior?
A new person was hired a few weeks ago. He's tells semi awkward jokes, mostly punny ones or "dad" jokes that half the time, aren't perceived as very funny. Every so often he tells a joke that has a ...
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Coworker read a private chat of me complaining about her. What do I do?
I had left a private chat open at my computer complaining about a coworker of mine and she read it. I had complained that she told another department some incorrect information. She confronted me and ...
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Colleague pretend to need a review, but want me to do all the work
I am a senior software engineer working in a department with two teams:
One team (model team) is responsible for the creation of forecasting models.
The other team (my team) is responsible for the ...
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How to socially function in an office where the primary social interaction between employees is making fun of other employees?
I recently started a job in a new office, where it seems like anytime a casual conversation is initiated its typically in negative context about another employee on a personal level.
This started ...
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How do you respond to a colleague from another team when they're wrongly expecting that you'll help them?
Here's the situation. There is a person on Team X. They share some hardware that I also work on.
They're trying to create a setup for something and struggling big time with it. It's none of my ...
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My co-workers do not invite me regulary to coffee, after the work
After work, my co-workers usually go to grab a coffee or some drinks. They all go together, and I was invited only a couple of times. I have been employed there for a couple of months now. I would ...
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How to convince somebody that he is fit for something else, but not this job?
I interviewed one candidate. He was a petroleum engineer in the desert site. After 3 minutes of interviewing and checking his code quality, without concern of his background at all, he failed.
One ...
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My co-worker is secretly taking pictures of me
I started working at my first real job (not student work) in autumn of last year. In my job there are mostly male employees. I am a (like I want to believe, good looking) female – age 25. We have two ...
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Annoying/Pushy Co-worker making remarks on my productivity
I have this overachieving coworker and we have the same job functions. My production rate is good, always meet deadlines/goals, and my reviews are always excellent.
This person constantly messages ...
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Coworker is lying about having kids to get extra time off. What should I do?
A peer of mine (same organization but different scrum team) is a very involved father. He is often taking time off of work to watch his kids and leaving early to take his kids to soccer practice. I ...
