Questions tagged [company-policy]
Rules for how an organization is run. Areas can include dress code, work hours, and behavior in the workplace.
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Can a company claim that my personal password is their intellectual property? [closed]
I am facing a court case where my previous employer is stating that they own my passwords as its intellectual property. I am in UK. I got fired for refusing to give my password. When I search the ...
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What to do when previously approved time off is being revoked at the last second because my coworker requested the same days off after I did?
I requested time off for Christmas way back in October, and some of it was approved October 18, so I bought plane tickets (which are now non-refundable) for a trip during those days and expected to ...
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How to help a co-worker who wouldn't be able to get promotion due to lack of English skills?
In my engineering organisation I have one employee (machinist) having 25 years service at same set up. He is the most skilled and dedicated worker with an exemplary attitude who can be assigned to any ...
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Wheaton's law rewritten as a company policy / company value [on hold]
Wheaton's law: "Don't be a dick", we feel would be a excellent company policy or company value. But for obvious reasons we can not use that verbatim.
What would be a more work appropriate way of ...
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Sign-on bonus repayments upon leaving a company
I'm leaving my company (in the US, IL) before one year cycle. And I have to return the $5000 relocation lump sum that I received (I actually received only $3000 after tax), under the condition that if ...
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Could I ask an employee of my company's client for a recommendation letter ? Will it violate any company policy?
I will be applying to Graduate schools for Fall 2019. I have taken my GRE and will be planning to take again. My undergrad core GPA is not very good due to health problems, which I will mention in my ...
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I mistakenly took someone else's lunch; how should I proceed?
I've been working at my present job for 5 years now, and I maintain very good relationship with my colleagues.
Last week I accidentally took someone else's catered lunch, thinking it was left-overs.
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Is Airbnb housing with colleagues as roommates an acceptable practice in the business? [closed]
The company that I work for is a small to medium side company. When required to travel (10% - 15% annually) we are getting fully compensated for the food expenses (being reasonable as an average) and ...
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Top developer doing more home office than allowed
I'm a release manager of a well-known software development company. In the project we work in, we have 1 developer.
Every worker in the project including me (around 20 people, mostly managers) has 2 ...
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Should I agree to accept any further addition of rules to the company policy? [closed]
I have been a senior software engineer in an Indian based company and owners of the company are an Indian as well for the last two years. Recently all employees were given an agreement to sign. Below ...
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Is it appropriate/legal to work on personal laptop even after the employer given a work laptop without the knowledge of employer? [closed]
So I have a personal laptop and coincidentally it's same model as the laptop provided by my employer, so is it appropriate/moral/legal to continue my work with my personal laptop without the knowledge ...
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What should be my position title in my startup? [duplicate]
My friend and I started a startup. I don't have any equity in the company since he is the one who set it all up. Currently we are only two people; we are looking to hire more. I'm working on the ...
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How to address an “improved work/life balance” policy that penalizes those who don't have children?
I have met a few employers lauding their work/life balance policy to help people with a family to balance their work/life. Managers are giving these employees the flexibility to attend to family ...
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who pays the work visa fee? employee or employer [closed]
My employer hired an immigration expert for all visa processing process, he asked me to pay the fee.
I want to ask that;
who will pay the work visa processing fee and how much?
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Motivate coworkers to use strong passwords
I work for an expanding company, and we are currently establishing a new IT-infrastructure and several company-policies (privacy/safety rules).
One of my biggest concerns is the acceptance of ...
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Coworkers showing up late to start their shift force me to stay longer
My employer cares for 3 slightly disabled ladies 24 hours a day. My job is from 2-6pm, to take these ladies to and from their jobs.
My employer is threatening to fire me because other employees ...
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Member of the board asks for admin access and wants non-compliant device on the network
I'm one of the many network operators at a corporation. One of the board members asks every time — when in her opinion changes are too slow — for admin access (credentials) so she can do it herself.
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Supervisor hit on my wife and exacted revenge on her after being turned down
My wife's male supervisor (engaged) hit on her, and asked her out many times. My wife refused him, and this supervisor stopped hitting on her, but turned everything to work harassment: far more ...
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How to address a non-compliance situation which is turning out productive
I work in a 50 odd employee start-up and I am in a senior techno-managerial role (reporting to CEO). Usually culture is fairly informal and lots of policies are not officially documented. Some emails ...
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I am the only one without a company provided laptop
My wife is the only one in her team was given an old desktop at company, everyone else have a laptop. Both of us using Mac, and her company's IT department cannot figure out a way to install VPN to ...
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Ethics of renting out an assigned workplace parking spot [closed]
I work in a downtown environment, and everyone in our company is assigned a parking spot in the lot. There are numerous lots that charge anywhere from $5 to $10 a day to park within blocks of my ...
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How to deal with boss asking employees to wear specific clothes when it is uncomfortable?
I am facing a difficult situation wherein my client visit is due over in next week. We have a formal dress code except on Fridays. On this day, my boss asked us to wear a Company T-Shirt that is ...
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Should I help my boss out?
I've recently got a new job at a company that is mainly sales based. My job is developing and maintaining the website, there are just two of us who do this (My boss and I).
The company is incredibly ...
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My Manager violates IT policies and does not adhere to Standard Practices [closed]
I'm working as an offshore Senior Oracle ERP Developer with a BPO Company and have a Onshore Manager ("MM").
I've been working here for over two years now and one thing I noticed from the beginning ...
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Do IT departments care if you use a used laptop? [closed]
My new job requires a Windows laptop with 4+GB of ram, i5 or later processor, and significant storage space. I only have linux and Mac laptops and don't want to remove them to run windows.
My plan ...
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Is it OK to sell swag? [closed]
I received a piece of swag from my employer; all employees received it. It's branded with the company logo. I have no use for it; neither does my wife.
As far as I can tell, the item actually ...
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Can Company take away “courtesy privilege” whenever they feel like it? [closed]
As an intern working in the local government organization(city-level) in the US, I noticed that I was not getting paid for some of the holiday(Christmas and New Year) while got paid for the rest of ...
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Boss confiscating mobile phones during work-related social engagement
My wife recently attended a conference for work some seven hours travel time away. At the end there was a purely social closing banquet, during which her boss demanded that she, and the other three ...
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does a non-competition clause keep you from finding a job as a low level employee? [duplicate]
I'm seeing more and more employers requesting to sign a non-competition clause, restricting you from finding work in your given field in an entire state. Some even go as far as telling you that you ...
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Is it unprofessional to ask to use company laptop for personal uses? [closed]
I'm going on a trip this weekend with my family, and I expect there will be some idle time in the hotel room or by the pool.
I'd like to fill this idle time with Netflix or video games etc, but I don'...
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Company doesn't follow security policies advertised to clients
I work for a small consulting company with no formal IT personnel. One other employee and I are the only ones who actually care about information security and network management. We both get a ton of ...
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Company changed vacation policy to deny me 4 weeks, only a few days before I finally earned it [closed]
In 2017 I had my 10 year anniversary on my job. I work for a small law firm. There are 5 full time lawyers and 1 part time lawyer. I am the only staff member. When I began this job there were only 2 ...
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Is it common practice for a school to force its staff to use school canteen?
Our school (private secondary) just opened a canteen, and it is of type where we have to order food and wait while it is prepared. Before this there was an arrangement with nearby restaurant for ...
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How to address colleagues including me in video recordings in the office when I wish to not be recorded?
A couple of weeks ago two of my colleagues went around the office filming for another colleague's anniversary video. The filming took place on company premises during work hours, and I understand it ...
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Is it within the rights of my employer to pose limits on personal appearance such as hair color for only certain people with similar positions?
I'm interested in changing my hair color to something a little outside of the norm, but I'm not 100% sure if it is ok for me to do so.
When I was still a temp working for the company, I had been ...
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Strict sickness policy detrimental to recruitment. How to make HR aware?
I recently started work for a company as a lead software developer, their main business isn't software development and most employees are either call center staff or warehouse staff. The software ...
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Using corporate email lists to address lost and found
A bit of background to the topic... My wife works for a very large international bank in Canada. Recently, her team was moving to another floor and looked like the moving company has lost a small ...
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Manager is upset because I asked HR to clarify a company policy after he had explained it to me
I am a new hire and recently had my first 3-month review. I got an overall satisfactory rating, but was criticized for being away from my desk too much. According to my manager, my lunchtime (rarely ...
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Management asking us to work on a national holiday, how to refuse? [closed]
My company management are asking every employee to work on a national holiday without extra pay! Is it illegal? How can we refuse to work on a national holiday, against the wishes of our management?
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How to ask boss for written authorization to violate a strict company policy?
My manager has asked me to violate a company policy that they disagree with. The policy is very strict and violating it normally is considered gross misconduct. The policy is for security and ...
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Smoking outside of office on works time [closed]
I working at a company with 50-60 employees, none of whom smoke apart from myself. I understand going out to smoke is a privilege, not a right, and the company is under no obligation to support my ...
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Is it professional to use personal contacts in other companies to solve problems at work?
I work in IT, and like typical IT folks, have a lot of friends in IT.
Is it professional to use these connections to help my employer?
For example, a client in my company needs to contact another ...
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What does a company gain by allowing an unusually early full 401k vesting?
My friend recently started a position at a high tech manufacturing company. The company offers full vesting of the retirement fund after just 2 years of working with the company. The standard is ...
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My onsite client keeps calling me after office hours and on weekends
So the scenario is like we and another company are working on a common project. I often visit their office for discussion and meetings. For the first few months, it goes very well. After that they ...
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Is it acceptable to ask a waiter to pay if a customer leaves without paying?
I’ve recently started working for a restaurant (which will be anonymous for now) in Virginia (U.S.A.) as a waiter. I’ve learned to enjoy it, but recently a customer left without paying. I looked ...
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Restricted control over company's laptop [closed]
I have been recently hired as a security engineer on a company.
They provided me a MacBook Pro as a company laptop. As I always do in any computer in my possession - including in previous jobs - I ...
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Inquiring About Drug Policy After Employment [closed]
I started work last week at a small (~10-15 employees) tech company in California as an intern. Since marijuana is legal here for both medicinal and recreational use, I've been considering pursuing ...
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Is it common to be required to make-up for time off that I negotiated during the hiring process?
During the hiring process (before I accepted the job offer), I mentioned that I wasn't yet aware of the company's vacation policy but that I had planned a couple of trips that would prevent me from ...
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A friend/coworker and his wife are employed at the same company. He found out she's cheating. What to do?
Full context: I've been at my job for about a year and have formed close bonds with a number of people, including my coworker "Josh". A new position opened up recently that Josh's spouse, "Jessica", ...
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What to do when unprepared for a SOC audit
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I'm a recently hired (2 months ago) lead developer at a small (<50) fintech company. Tomorrow is our SOC 1 audit. A coworker is leading our company's interaction with the auditors; but, ...
