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 should I deal with "online" status competition at work?
Some of my coworkers seem to keep their online status as available until late at night, even when they are not working. I suspect they use some tricks to prevent their computer from going to sleep ...
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Doing the heavy lifting, no gratitude
I have been in a very strange situation recently. 20 years of experience have had some disagreements conflicts in the past, but I have never managed to alienate a whole team towards me so far :) So it ...
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How serious is it that my new teammates didn't show up to a meeting I set up that they agreed to attend?
I started a new job as a senior developer five weeks ago. I have worked with a one of my colleagues and two of my managers at a previous company, so I'm not a totally unknown quantity at this new ...
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My valid concern is perceived as getting defensive. What to do?
I work remotely at a small-sized startup as a team lead. This is my first time working as a team-lead (< 6months) but worked at the same company for 2y+. Recently, I posted a question in a Slack ...
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Is saying bye to only certain coworkers rude?
When leaving for the day going down the row of cubical, I only say bye to some people as I pass them. I clearly see everyone but for some people I don't say anything as I pass. Is that rude behavior ...
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Would I be jeopardizing a working relationship if I voiced my displeasure with a coworkers actions?
I work in the United States. I have been working with a co-worker, Jane, for 9 months. We do similar work. She has over 30 years of experience on the job. She is an invaluable resource. I can ask her ...
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Handling an Uncooperative and Disrespectful coworker and Maintaining a Comfortable Work Environment
I am currently working part-time as a Head Cashier at Home Depot and facing a challenging situation with one of my cashiers, an older lady who often displays an unwarranted attitude. For example, when ...
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Can the word "girl" be derogatory when used to address a well known colleague?
I have worked in the cybersecurity division of my employer in the United States for about 9 years with last 4 years, in a management role.
I have a female colleague whom I know well , and is also in a ...
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Leaving a note regarding unlocked computer
Yes, these questions/answers are related but do not answer my question.
I work in a company that, to my understanding, handles very sensitive information on its network.
The open space in which I am ...
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My new coworker is actually ChatGPT [closed]
We recently had a new member join our team. We are all fully remote. I have become 99% convinced that my new coworker is just ChatGPT.
Here's the background:
We rarely have team calls, and generally ...
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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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Should I tell a leaving coworker I'm replacing his process
There is this process that a leaving coworker wrote using (I feel) outdated software. The issue is anytime there is an error I have to consult with said coworker to get it fixed because no one else ...
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What to do with an awkward colleague?
One of our colleagues is difficult to work with. They can be obnoxious , rude and quick to complain.
In the team they are working in, people are afraid of them and when there is any confrontational ...
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How to prevent nepotism in hiring for my team?
I have been in teams of medium and big sized tech companies in which new people were added to the team without an interview or a normal interview. I found out that the new persons were related to ...
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Am I responsible for loss of valuable supplies (>usd120k)?
I work at a molecular bio lab as a postgraduate student and I'm relatively new. My team currently focuses on antibody research and hence my post-doctorate team supervisor had ordered a lot of various ...
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What to do if coworkers are holding grudges
I started to work at a new department at a university. There are only 2 very senior members, the head Lady and another Lady only.
The others are kind of new like me. There are 3 members who don't work ...
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How to improve team collaboration in different time zone?
Recently, I started a new job where team collaboration seems difficult.
Several of our business team members work in a different time zone that differs by ten hours.
The only time I can get in touch ...
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How not to tear up when coworker talks about why she had an unplanned absence
A lady I work with had a family tragedy that caused her an unexpected leave of absence. As a result some of the company's procedures were changed so that in case someone is unexpectedly not able to ...
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How to handle teammates that seem disappointed with my skillset as a Senior Engineer
I am a M[31] "senior" software engineer with about 6yrs experience working in the financial sector. I say senior but I dont think I am really at that level yet. Most of my experience is in ...
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Colleague keeps setting deadlines for me but never meets them himself. How to approach this?
In my job, I am part of a junior team who works with senior employees to support them in their roles. Usually we have several seniors who all need similar services, and the seniors normally say "...
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Is it normal to be emotionally impacted when a colleague resigns? [closed]
A colleague of mine resigned recently, causing me to feel an emotion I've identified as grief. I'm sad because she's a good worker. Now that she's gone, our work suffers on average, and it becomes ...
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Asking a coworker to cover work when vacation, how to deal with No
I have some tasks that I do every day, and they may take around half an hour on average. If I want to go on vacation and I ask a coworker to cover that task, but they say no, is this something worth ...
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How to get better at taking constructive criticism
I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I think I can be overly sensitive and take things too personally.
One example was I forwarded an email to someone I work with. I didn't know their account was ...
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What should I do about an aggressive colleague?
I started a new 3-month-long project recently in a <10 people startup. The company is based in a different country than where I live. I am a contractor working full-time remotely. The company I am ...
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What to say to inconsolable co-worker whose job I was assigned to take over?
I have been on this job a total of 7 months. My co-worker taught me everything I know and we had been sharing duties. About 2 weeks ago management made some changes and said I would be doing the ...
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How to politely return an expensive gift from a coworker?
One of my team members gave me an expensive gift before the Christmas break as a thank you for something that I did for him earlier in the year. I feel it's way over the top and would like to give it ...
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Should I speak about seeing private information about a person?
information about one of my colleagues in the company’s server. Should I tell my colleague about what I saw or keep silent.
I’m asking for the best ethical viewpoint.
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How do we deal with a colleague that falls short of expectations?
We are a small three-person team dealing with data analysis working in a software company. Until a few months ago, it was just me and another colleague, both of which have a technical background (...
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Contractor closed out from new contracts with big department in organisation
This question relates to Norway, the business culture is northern. I have the following problem. I have been working as contractor for Organization X 7 years. Not one stretch but let's say 3 periods. ...
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How to deal with an incompetent coworker when fighting for a raise
First of all, let me say that I have read How should I handle an incompetent coworker?, How to deal with an incompetent colleague? and How to deal with relatively technically incompetent coworker?, ...
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Short-term options to mitigate burnout and demotivation while working with painful colleague
In summary, I've been a tech lead on a project for over a year now, and during that time I've worked almost exclusively with one developer, who is probably one of the worst I've ever worked with (...
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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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Should I report an unethical behavior from a teammate to our leader?
I am working in a research team that consists of researchers and a team lead. The team lead asked me with another teammate to experiment with several methodologies to get good results on a data. When ...
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Better channeling co-founder's enthusiasm
I founded a software company earlier this year. My co-founder is incredibly smart and one of her best qualities is that she is constantly radiating ideas on how we can improve this and optimize that ...
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Bullying at workplace
I have joined a new software company and facing problems on multiple fields. Wanted suggestions on how to handle these and continue without getting discouraged.
My team lead (who recently got ...
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How to handle repetitive counter-questions situation
I've been recently accepted in a new position (joining new company) as a team leader. My team is composed of 2 persons, relatively my age and experience.
What I've noticed is that one of those new ...
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How to confirm and handle double standards in promotions?
I joined about nine months ago a company where I started a new position in a computer science R&D department, which itself properly began several months before that.
In this department are three ...
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How do I deal with a colleague who wants to talk to me? [closed]
I have a colleague at work. He is autistic. He likes to talk but have trouble expressing his emotions. He doesn’t sit next to me. He works with me sometimes. He leaves his cubicle to talk to me even ...
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Anxious about daily stand-up meetings
As mentioned in a previous post, I am a junior engineer a few months into my role after completing a 3 month boot camp. I have a BSc in English Literature, so I am picking up the technical knowledge ...
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A colleague "hoards" communal resources and our bosses are unaware, how do we solve the issue?
I work at a research institute. We have offices that are supposed to be just that - an office. And we have labs, lots of them. The labs are shared among the several hundred people that work at the ...
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Coworker ignores request in messenger, ask in person?
Coworker ignores request in message app should I ask in person? I'm asking my coworker to help me with something for work in messagenger app. They are clearly online from looking at their status and ...
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Co-worker always asks me to do small things when they aren't my responsibility
I have a co-worker who will very often ask me to do things he could easily do himself, when they are not my responsibility. Often something like this.
Him: "Hey, I wanted to talk to you and Jim ...
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Annoying unprofessional private slack channel at work
One of my colleagues recently created a private slack channel and invited all the non-admin-level people at our location to it. About 70% of the time people chatting in it just communicate about ...
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How to deal with an colleague with an extremely strong smell?
I share an office with someone who smells extremely bad, maybe the worst I have ever known anyone to smell in my life (I'm not exaggerating, it smells like they have some item of clothing which has ...
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Coworker provided wrong information and told me to use it which I did unknowingly
Coworker who has a higher title told me to use information for a project which that section is used to determine the basis for the project. I was told to use that section and not touch it because they ...
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How to let your manager know some of your colleagues are not the sharpest pencils in the box
I have situations where time and again I encounter non-sense, non-high-standard behavior from some of my colleagues in the work.
These colleagues report to the same manager as me.
These can be ...
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Taking over the lead of a team but not official - am I not set up for success?
I joined a software development team at work 12 months ago, switching from a different team within the same company. Let's briefly go through the people in the team: a manager and then myself, person ...
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Employer lied about contract role, difficult colleague and now saying they expect more of me?
At the moment I'm in a difficult situation. I've been at my current employer for almost 9 months as a software developer.
Sadly I quickly discovered they lied about the actual role because I went for ...
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Discipline for excessive alcohol use outside of the workplace
Hi can an employee be written up for drinking outside of the workplace after hours, but with some colleagues?
In this scenario, the employee was out of town visiting the home office. He was invited ...
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How to deal with co-worker attacking me to hide incompetence?
After some downsizing at my workplace, I was assigned to work alongside a co-worker on some year-long projects.
In past interactions, I knew she was struggling at the job, and she seemed honest about ...
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