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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Why did my coworkers get upset with me when I told them I run an online business that generates high income? [closed]
I have joined a publishing company for about 3 months, and I used to be close with the coworkers in my department. We would go for lunch together almost everyday. However, this changed last week, ...
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Style of projecting work results [closed]
I am a Software Developer in Germany, and have this quite style of working. I do my tasks and at times, even more than what is expected of me. But in meetings, I don't speak much about my work. I ...
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How do you handle colleagues who constantly give you resistance?
I work as a full stack developer in a team of 7 developers. I like to receive the constructive criticism as well as give it when needed.
I love to review PRs and strive to maintain high coding ...
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Colleague frequently late, often when manager is not present
I work for a micro company with less than 10 employees and the working atmosphere is generally good and everyone gets along most of the time. One gripe is that people are on time but there is one ...
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Higher up ordered me to run a department meeting against my will and that by virtue of his rank I have to do so, should I report this to HR?
The head of my department (think "head of back end engineers") asked me to run a cross company meeting for the department, that is to happen next week because he will be on vacation.
I ...
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I am a marketing manager who keeps being bossed around by all the other departments
I work for a start-up that's been growing super fast in the last months. I'm their marketing manager and I work alone, I have no team.
All the other teams are big yet they keep focused on their niche ...
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How to deal with teams that deliberately make their negligence hard to document/track?
I work in a software engineering company with over 1000 engineers in silicon valley. We generally have really strong & healthy engineering teams, and have very high ratings on glassdoor. But ...
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Coworker asking about another coworker's attendence
I have several coworkers in my department. On paper we are all equal, no one is the offically the manager, team leader nor even the lead worker. Our oversight from our actual manager is minimal.
We do ...
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Dealing with a difficult colleague not accepting my position (in an NGO setting)
I have a BA degree in computer science with a few years of professional experience. A few month ago I started working for a humanitarian NGO (with US-American origins) which is active in some lesser ...
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Having failed to meet the timeline, my collaborator asks for my help and covers his mistakes
This is a project involving a lot of companies and teams. As a contractor working for company A, I finished my part, so I am not going to get more money from A. However, Bob from company B failed to ...
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Helping a colleague that does not give credit back
We are a 2-developer team and a PM.
My colleague is new and his skills are lacking with regards to his position. As result he is getting a lot of help from he. My problem is that when it comes to the ...
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Coworker acts like a boss
So I've recently joined the company, and there is a guy who shares same position as me, but older than me by 7-8 years. Our boss is also young; same age as me.
So the coworker started picking on me. ...
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Coworker hoarding all the fun tasks and leaving the rest of the team with the boring stuff
I have a coworker who is actually a great developer but he claimed all the fun and interesting aspects of the current project. Management jumps at the idea of him getting assigned of these features ...
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Coworker berated me in front of another coworker
About a month ago I felt like I was struggling with some parts of my job (an administrative assistant at a therapy office), so I reached out to my boss about it. She was glad to help me out and we ...
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Manager wants to send me to an expensive training. A different manager told me it’s a waste of money
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My employer requires that I take training which is offered to all employees by Company-X at no cost to my employer. This training is essentially a circuit of courses that are offered at ...
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Former coworker I gave a reference for sabotaged the company on his last day - Should I update the reference contact with this new information?
So here's the sequence of events:
I gave a coworker that I had a good working relationship with a good reference for his next job.
That next employer of my coworker's actually called back references ...
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How to deal with an angry co-worker or team member?
I guess my co-worker/team member is angry over me for few reasons and he is not providing updates or taking up tasks as before. Context is, my teammate and I were working in a project for more than ...
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Extracting work from people who are on PIPs but who we also cannot fire?
I work on a team of seven software developers where two of them have basically just given up. They got put on performance improvement plans, but instead of upping their game they are basically waiting ...
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Crossing the line to 1 up coworker?
I like to work hard at my job and try to do things better than my coworker in terms of projects and such. Is this considered one upping coworkers or just healthy competition and/or me working hard. ...
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Dealing with Executive who is always late
What is the best way to deal with a sr manager head of a department who is always late to my meetings? Should I start the meeting without him?
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Coworkers continually disrespect the workplace, boss, and customers
To start, I'd like to highlight that, though the youngest team member, I've been in this gas station cashier job for over two years, second only to the boss in time working here. My boss always taught ...
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What should I do if a coworker tarnishes my reputation?
We just moved our hardware into a new location shared with other projects. Prior to the move, I was talking to the move coordinator, and he asked me what workspace I was going to use in the new ...
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Is it unprofessional or rude to say that someone is being frustrated?
Summary: Contractor got upset and frustrated that we have chosen the other agency based on given quotes. I've tried to diffuse the situation by saying "I don't understand why you are frustrated&...
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How to navigate career growth in a team with title inflation and with a manager who fails to retain skilled employees?
I recently started a new job as a mid level software engineer.Team was made up of 3 seniors and 2 mid levels including me. Within my first month, other mid level colleague took extended leave due to ...
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Should I bring to my boss's attention that coworkers are getting me to do most of the work by giving me huge to-do lists?
I am working in a retail store. There is one to three of employees working at a time, usually with no manager on site. I have almost never worked with the manager and mainly communicate with him ...
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Appropriateness in requesting the manager to include me in a formal conversation with a potential vendor
I recently discovered an OEM which develops hardware that solves many of the problems which my team is facing. I am sending the details to my manager. I am closely involved in this project and would ...
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Feedback for colleague with ADHD
My colleague has ADHD and has written a report. My job is to provide feedback using comments. I understand that the editing process can be tedious, especially for someone with ADHD. And I think they ...
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What to do when co-workers use software that is not in the terms
This happened last year and I did nothing but it's one regret that I have. I'm not sure how I should have handled this or indeed if I could have done anything.
I'm an IT contractor and last year ...
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What can I say to an uncommunicative teammate to understand him better and lead to more productivity?
I have a teammate who generally is a quiet, introverted person. I don't have an issue with that.
My issue comes from his apparent lack of proactivity and willingness to communicate with others.
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How can I be better at talking tech with my colleagues?
I work as a software engineer at an MNC. I found that while articulating a concept related to software or just giving an update to the team. I tend to use overly simplified words and occasionally use ...
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Coworker who is also relatively new is very bossy towards me in a micromanaging sort of way [closed]
A couple months ago I started working in a store. The training portion is over. The store recently had a lot of turn over (even for retail). Aside from the manager, the longest employee has been there ...
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When to inform boss, something wasn't my fault
In general I have a difficult time knowing when to defend my position that a mistake was not my fault. I'm working in a retail store right now, but I've had this question in other environments.
Where ...
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Dealing with an overseas co-worker who acts like my manager/higher up than me
I work for a large international company based in the USA, where I am a 'posted' overseas manager based in the UK. The company has many overseas branches, such as Canada, Australia, Singapore etc.
My ...
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How to deal with lack of assignments in a remote position? [closed]
I'm working for an outsourcing company and two weeks ago got my first assignment, working remotely for a company abroad, as a senior.
The salary is great for what I'm used to. Each one of the ...
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Spilled coffee on coworker's book, buy a new one or apologize [closed]
I borrowed a coworker's book ( don't know this coworker super well) and spilled coffee on the book. Should I just go online and buy a new one or try and explain/apologize and return the book?
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Should I tell my superior I'm thinking of leaving now (start of paid parental leave), after finishing paid parental leave, or when I have a new job?
I'm in a high-paying Senior Software Engineer role at a top tech company with excellent benefits, just starting 16 weeks of paid parental leave, in the San Francisco Bay area in California, with a low ...
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How can I make sure my colleagues understood my explanation?
A few years ago, when I was a trainee developer at my current company, there were some rare situations when my supervisor would explain something to me about one of my tasks, after which he would ask ...
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Would this be considered harassment in a workplace - UK?
I made a joke that a girl has a crush for my coworker, he got mad - was it harassment?
I have been working for over a year in a big corporation in the financial industry. I am female.
I have a group ...
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Should I do anything about coworker who clocks in early and does nothing? [duplicate]
How to get clarity on hours paid.
I recently started a job where we clock in at the beginning of our shift, and out at the end. The pay is directly linked to the clocking and out. It's down to the ...
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Is it acceptable to ask an estranged former colleague to 'siezen' even if you previously 'duzen-ed'? [closed]
Note: My native language is English which lacks a T-V distinction
Generally, when two adult German speakers meet in the workspace, they start by 'siezen-ing' (speaking German with the use of the ...
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Bossy coworker asked me to stay late. Should I tell our manager?
I started a job relatively recently, and it is in retail. The store is small, so sometimes only one or two people are working at a time. There's a coworker who's only been there a few more months than ...
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How to handle when two coworkers compete for an external job?
I recently switched to a very well-known successful company, and now my current team has 1 open Software Dev role. I sent the description to two of my former coworkers (who are both still at my ...
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How can I deal with a colleague who doesn't do work, is aggressive but got a promotion? [closed]
Got a bit of a situation I'm not sure how to deal with. I had a run in with a colleague 2 weeks ago, they got upset over an email that was sent round and felt singled out by it, rather than speak ...
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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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Boss promoted new guy in less than a month. How should I proceed? [closed]
My boss (supervisor) has been trying to convince me everyone out there is evil, except for him. He cuts me out completely from talking to other departments, or anyone else (besides him) for what its ...
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Problem working as mobile developer (contractor )
I am working as a contractor hourly basis as a mobile application developer (I have 3 year experience, I am the only mobile developer).
We don't have any document or anything, but I admit it is a ...
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Everyone suddenly started ignoring me! [closed]
I had some problems with my manager that she refused to discuss, so I decided to stop trying. Due to the nature of my work, I had to travel to another country. I left in good terms with everyone, I ...
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Avoided office because of my health - now people start to talk
I am currently in physical pain after an injury. It’s healing very slowly and different treatments are tried. My doctor has not put me on sick-leave. He has just told me that I should avoid painful ...
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What is the best course of action on a new side project. when a co-lead has a completely different approach?
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We are both solution architects and fairly new at a company. This project is not related to our direct work but an initiative that involves the wider department. My colleague invited me to co-...
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Coworker is not taking the initiative and I am picking up the slack [closed]
My coworker (I will call him Fred) and I have been working in the office with our supervisor working remotely. We are in IT so aside from email responses we have various tasks that need to be tended ...
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