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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Seeking Guidance on Collaborative Targets with a Colleague Unaccustomed to Teamwork
I'm currently facing a bit of a challenge at work. I've been teamed up with a colleague who usually prefers working on their own projects. It's proving to be a bit tricky as they tend to avoid or ...
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Should I or should I not introduce a coworker as a 'friend'?
Assume Alice and Bob work together in a software company with a pretty informal and easygoing work culture. They get along well. They see each other during team lunches. They help each other out with ...
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Colleague making up excuses for lack of knowledge
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We are a small team of developers working on a single multiplatform project (Web, Mobile and PC). One colleague in particular is in "charge" of the mobile application. I quoted that ...
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Should I pay for dinner to pay back a dinner from 3 years ago?
A few years ago at a conference I was all but certain I was about to get fired so I refused to spend too much money eating out. My co-worker paid the entire bill at a steakhouse for us to eat dinner ...
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Trips in a colleague's car (smoker)
One of my colleagues is a heavy smoker. We sometimes go together to customer appointments (approx. 1 hour's drive in one direction).
We don't have company cars. He offers me then a lift in his car. In ...
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Co-worker complained to management about me then expects me to greet her and have chit chat. I refused
I work in the US. A coworker complained to management about me regarding leaving work for her and about a work question I asked her. My manager informed me of this. I felt betrayed. The job is my ...
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Should I send coworker reminder email if he forgot to do something
So there is this task that coworker is assigned to do. Once in awhile (not often maybe once every 3 months) he will forgot to do it. Should I send him a reminder email the day after to let him know ...
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Is it appropriate to ask if any of my collegues are colourblind? And if so, how do I go about doing so?
One of the roles I have on my team is to make plots and graphs display data and the latest test results.
Over the past few years I have become increasingly aware of the use of colourblind-friendly ...
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How to tell coworker in polite way to briefly describe things I need to learn instead of elaborating?
I am working on product in which I am a newbie, but in my group there are coworkers that know that product deeply in all the details. Those coworkers are busy with high-priority tickets and I am new ...
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How to get past the lack of trust? [closed]
So I just started a job doing what I have been doing for 7 years, fronted react-redux development work and doing pretty good I might add, out of the ton of tickets this company put together, like 16 ...
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Giving credit to a colleague in a presentation that I was selected for
I recently gave a presentation with all the people within my department to several managers (mid-way up my org.) After that I was emailed, along with a select few, to repeat this presentation, in ...
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Manager implied that I should be pushing a colleague to get work done faster. Do I tell the colleague?
Same manager as my previous post. My colleague and I are working on the same project, and we are at the same level in the org chart (in fact, we are in the same role), but he is newer to the ...
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How do I conduct myself when dealing with a coworker who provided me with bad data and yet keeps pushing responsibility for bad results onto me?
Some background will help me explain myself better - I maintain a software system that is used by the sales team. A sales person enters some data, then some complicated computations are done, and a ...
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How to help my stubborn colleague learn new ways of coding?
I work for a small wholesale company as a developer. It is just me and one other. I am way younger than him and he is considered my "senior". I put that in quotes because I soon realized ...
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How to handle a coworker who can't take feedback
I am in a senior position at my job. A fresh recruit came from the university and I have been working with him for around 8 months now. We work closely together, and since I am in a senior position I ...
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How to figure out exactly what will be expected at a new workplace and face it [closed]
I have been working at a state university as a lecturer, actually in a senior position (on contract though) because I have a post graduate qualification as well, completed with a research component.
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What to do when remote teammates don't respond?
I am in USA. I work for a software company which has many offices in USA & the rest of the world. Our company has very flexible work policies in general. Very few teams work from office, and ...
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How to give feedback to stubborn colleague?
I am senior software developer working on a team of 6 engineers, one of them is very difficult to work with, especially when trying to change his mind during a debate or an engineering discussion.
He ...
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How to deal with the feedback from coworker after joining new team?
I'm in a graduate rotational program and just joined my last rotation. My first two rotations were in the field of data science and for my last one I picked a team where I can learn and work on data ...
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I am leaving soon for a new opportunity. Should I mention my co-worker's deficiency to our manager as I leave?
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A colleague (we'll call him Tim) and myself work to support/develop several products, including a mobile application. This guy has been here for 2 years and 8 months (I joined 1 month ...
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Tech lead role in a team topologies type of team [closed]
In recent years in the country where I am positioned (Scandinavia) the role of the tech lead in a 10 person team has been reduced. More and more teams actually don't have a designated tech lead. The ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
I manage a team in the cybersecurity division where I work. My team is responsible for owning several security tools used to protect company digital assets (Data loss protection suite - DLP, advanced ...
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How to handle unrealistic expectations from your manager and teammates?
Lately, I've been improving my performance at work. I have solved some challenging problems, and I'm getting immense trust from my manager. My colleagues have started to express that I'm talented.
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New employee In a small office environment exposed to huge culture issues
I have just finished my first week with what I see as a great company that is poised for tremendous growth. Currently there are only 4 full time employees, including myself, within the office and ...
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How do I politely get my coworker to stop communicating with me in morse code?
A close coworker of mine has developed an obsession with morse code and has decided to use it constantly with me. Whilst I find it pretty cool, it's really distracting and I'm finding it hard to ...
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How to assist the improvement of company quality by stopping some very low qualities practiced by coworker
This is regarding a problem occured in a work place where a majority of workers are doing gossiping, backbiting and undermining, kind of they have adapted it like a cultural thing.
So, for short, they ...
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How to deal with colleague enrolling my email to mailing lists instead of his own
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My company uses long and short emails, where the short emails are (most often) <initials>@<domain> and the long emails are <first name>(.<middle name>).<surname&...
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Did I throw someone under the bus?
There is a task we have to do at work that a couple of coworkers and I take turns on. One day one of my coworkers forgot to do said task, and my manager emailed me to ask why it wasn't done.
My reply ...
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What can I call actions that seem to motivate employees to give gifts to a senior?
A situation like this has been happening.
The most senior (say the dean of a faculty or a manager of a company) of the workplace, kind of likes to receive gifts. When there are new members, she looks ...
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How to deal with unprofessional colleague without being unprofessional myself?
Colleague teases me with girls colleagues name, how do I solve this issue?
This colleague is very unpleasant.
First things first, I got this job because of my sister had contact of my current manager. ...
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Coworker keeps telling me where to sit. How can I handle this?
I recently started a new job.
My coworker who sometimes works from home asked me which desk I sit at when he is not there. I told him at the same desk I normally do. He told me that needs to change, ...
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Corporate Sponsored Masters Flare Up
I am in a corporate paid Masters program at work. Over time, the group has slowly dwindled to only just a few of us now in this Masters program at a local university.
Since then, two of the last ...
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Can the impressions created through what you say, be used to safeguard yourself from manipulation at workplace?
I am writing this to get help on identifying some behaviours of people at workplace and develop my skills. I am a bit introverted and recently I came across a work place with a lot of toxic co-workers ...
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How can I raise behavioral concerns as a candidate?
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I'm waiting for an offer from a company I'm currently interviewing with.
The job is a Software Engineering Team Lead at a company with 300 employees.
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During the ...
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CS career - frustrating PR review [closed]
Edit: I don't understand why I'm being downvoted, all I am doing is asking for advice.
I have been a developer for nearly 10 years, though it's the first time I am in a "tech" company. My ...
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Co worker in my space
I am a high school teacher (Masters degree with years of experience)and my classroom has a connecting door with the ISS (in school suspension) classroom.
Between our two classrooms, there is a small (...
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When should one stop trying to eat with immediate coworkers in your team? [closed]
I have heard that one should not eat alone at work. I tried to meet with my team members but it is hard to get this pattern to stick as I eat at different times, I would rather finish work earlier and ...
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Cold-messaged by a colleague's spouse to get mentorship
I've recently received a cold message from a colleague's spouse, writing that they've heard my "name from <my colleague's name> over the meetings", asking for mentorship to help them (...
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Senior colleague thinks I stole his raincoat, how to respond?
There is an aggresive senior colleague in our company. The company is dominated by the same caste he is. He thinks I stole his rain-coat. And the reality is that I don't even drive two wheelers to ...
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Using someone’s Powerpoint template for self-introduction
Recently I gave a presentation to a team, and on the first slide I used my colleague's ppt template for my introduction. Now she is accusing me of piracy.
Is it wrong to use a general template design ...
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How to say goodbye to a coworker who leaves the company?
First of all some background:
I took a job last year in a new country. One of the only two people in the team when I arrived who is still here will leave the team in a few weeks. I'm really grateful ...
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How to know the line between stubbornness and trying to be creative/independent/firm with senior colleague?
I'm currently getting mentored by senior colleague. He's not too senior, just one year senior to me. Nobody lasts much in companies in Nepal so that's normal. Everyone moves abroad if they can.
Today ...
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How to help a colleague after termination warning
I am a software developer. I have a colleague of mine, who is a tester. The colleague was given a termination warning last week. In the warning, he was given a huge amount of work to finish during ...
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How do I make friends in workplace? [closed]
The problems that I face:
I am an introvert.
I don't have ANY stuff to tell.
My life is boring. I don't do anything fun because I'm relatively poorer and more focused in achieving in life.
Even ...
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My manager refuses to accept or learn new technologies
Here is a little background: my manager has been with this company for more than ten years. It seems like he's learned very little in the time he's been here and does things the way they've always ...
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Should I report my manager?
At my place of work, we have many employees who
Refuse to do their assigned work
Do others' work and not their own
Abandon their workspace whenever
Yell at customers
Just leave whenever things start ...
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Manager is trying to force me to communicate
I am an apprentice at a company that shares office space with a totally different company (same CEO for both though).
I am only one of the two people (me and my manager) of my company working there, ...
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Is hugging and handshakes between colleagues in Japan as a form of greeting a faux pas?
I just arrived in Japan last night and was met by colleagues in divisional headquarters. I and many of my visiting colleagues greeted our hosts / counterparts with handshakes and hugs as a sign of ...
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Is not having buddies a good reason to quit workplace? [closed]
I am not a native English speaker. So, I'm pretty sure I'll be misinterpreted. So, I want to clarify. By buddies, I mean colleagues who are nice.
I work in an office where no colleagues are nice to me....
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How to respond when asked to work with a technology you have not worked with yet?
I am currently working in a software development company. During team meeting my reporting manager asked me to look into issues related to node.js (one of the technology) whereas till date I worked ...
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