Questions tagged [conflict]
Questions relating to disagreement or arguments between two parties
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How can I advocate for a change that a very admired colleague opposes?
I'm a senior developer at a new job. One rock star programmer on my team is considered senior. He has worked on the project for years. His code has unhelpful or misleading names. It has methods and ...
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How do you deal with disrespectful/angry coworker?
I wanted to get your opinion on something that happened today at work.
I'm a manager in a tech company. Since friday, we have this "defcon 3" situation at work, meaning that we have some ...
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Colleague just won't let things go. It wastes time and affects my morale
My colleague and I work together on a project. We generally get along well on a personal level, and he makes good contributions to the team. His opinions are often valuable and highlight things we ...
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Should I report it to my manager that the client's security didn't help (eg show me around) like my instructions said they would?
I have a side job where the office I report to is in another city. I used to work for them close to full time, but now I have a different job. Since it was such a great company to work with I still do ...
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Would it be fair to ask my new employer to increase sign-on bonus because of delayed start date?
The employer I accepted an offer from on March 3rd, with a start date of April 4th, offers new out-of-state employees one of two options for relocation assistance due to mandatory on-site policies:
$...
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Retaining ambitious employee with rare skill set
We hired a talented engineer "Alice" some time back, and she has excelled at everything we throw at her. If she needs to use a new programming language or tool, she buys a book and learns it ...
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Internship starts before school ends
I have an offer for an internship a while ago but I haven't accept it yet. My internship starts on June 6 but my school's quarter ends on June 10 and I also have final exams on June 10 also. What do I ...
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Should I tell my manager about a passive-aggressive employee?
I recently started a new job. I was interviewed by the manager and three people that would be my peers. Everyone knew that I wasn't familiar with a specific piece of technology, but they decided to ...
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What possible consequences can including the course on violations in organizations in university programs have? [closed]
University gives knowledge on a variety of professional skills. One important skill is missing in the list, it is the skill to detect wrong behavior in the organization. The topic is not easy, it is ...
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Conflict of interests when interviewing
I work for a big company in a research department and am currently interviewing with a 10 people start-up in (roughly) the same industry branch.
They're very relaxed and want me to give a scientific ...
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Can't stand managers not reading emails and replies
Background:
We work remotely. Our managers are in a different country
I know the best solution is to reduce emails and instead use either Slack or instant messages, but these managers are from ...
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Employee Complaining About Sister IT Group
I have an employee who is fed up with another business area that we rely upon to provide a sort of IT service to us. We should be able to do some things that this administration group does however our ...
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Conflict with unqualified senior colleague from first day of work
I started as a data scientist 3 weeks ago at a small company (<100 employees) and have been assigned the one and only data scientist at the company as my lead/mentor. This person, let's call him &...
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Brought on as a senior dev /tech lead, project manager sees differently. How do I make this job work?
I was rehired in a senior dev role to lead a small team for a company I use to work for. I worked for them for 6 years as a senior dev, a few years ago.
However, the new project manager doesn't see me ...
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How do I get my colleague to send me the requested data?
I need certain test data in order to make improvements to our product. My colleague reported the issue but over the last month has ignored my repeated requests for data, while continuously reiterating ...
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Does the Manager's manager need to know disputes in teams?
I was reading about conflict resolution and I read a good approach, if a situation is considered as a conflict that wont resolve by itself, is to start with the manager calling an informal and private ...
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How to Handle Bigotry in Annual Report to Shareholders?
I recently discovered a series of bigoted jokes while browsing previous years' annual reports to shareholders. A report from several years ago contained multiple paragraphs making fun of Muslims and ...
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How do I deal with a manager oversimplifying tasks to encourage me to take them?
Our company has a new manager, who is eager to prove himself. During our regular meetings everyone is encouraged to take on more tasks and to grow. That's not unusual in any way but I don't have any ...
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How to solve mindset and value conflict?
I have an agile mindset / conflict mediation question.
There is a conflict between the PO (Product Owner) and me, the Scrum Master.
The PO is on some kind of crusade to appear to be the loudest, most ...
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Repairing relationship with former boss
A few introductory concepts about the organization I work for: First, it is a huge, old, very rigid and quite hierarchical organization, so, any expectation of me effecting any change in it is totally ...
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How do I handle a situation where I'm "stuck" between the CEO and Production Manager?
Summary: Our factory is suffering major issues, our CEO and my manager are in
disagreement about the reasons for it and how to fix it. The CEO wants
me to take his side in this and help the manager to ...
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How to ask for less project jargon on meetings and task assignment?
I've started a new ongoing project where the team members developed for some time. Most of them are having less overall experience than me.
The issue comes with the conversation and tasks assignment. ...
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Accused by the team of "stealing" my role from a colleague: all team members are against me
Two months ago, I was hired as a project and team manager in a multinational consultancy company. I have about 8 years of work experience, but only 6 months as a project manager (I worked before in ...
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How can I deal with a colleague who edits previous email details to paint colleagues in a negative light?
I work in the United Kingdom as a manager for a company which is based out of the United States.
This company has a number of very small overseas offices around the world.
All overseas office ...
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Is it appropriate to bring up "drama" affecting you that you technically shouldn't know?
I work remotely, and my sister works at one of the company's main offices. The team in the office is very negative and has an "Us vs them" mentality when it comes to remote workers. My ...
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How to deal with underperforming associate and un-involved manager?
I have been in this company for more than 5 years now. I started as an associate when the initial team was being built from ground up. When I joined, I was the second member and in all we had a team ...
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Manager wants to reduce my hours so I don't work with a coworker I'm not getting along with. Not sure if I should agree [closed]
There has been conflicts between me and a new coworker. The manager called me today. She wants us not to work together but this means I would have my hours reduced. I would be happy not to work with ...
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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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I have to work alone with new coworker and we are having conflicts
I have been working at a coffee shop. Most time I work alone or with one other employee. Recently we got a new manager and hired new employees. One of them I have been having a conflict with. I won't ...
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How to handle lying and insubordinate employee?
The company that I work for (IT company) has undergone cost-cutting and laying off employees. As a result, a few teams are down to one person, including two of my teams. One of these two, let's call ...
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Critical handoffs to/from another team that does not have their s**t together
Scenario:
Teams A, B, and C all report up through the same organization and each has its own manager and lead(s). The teams work closely together to perform related but distinct functions, and each ...
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Online meeting for informal conversations with the team is turning into soap opera
Our team set a special meeting for developers during work time to discuss less work-related things and keep the conversations not that formal. The idea is to keep all other meetings(we have like 3 a ...
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Got a little snippy with Boss should I apologize
I got a little snippy with my Boss because we agreed to hire someone and then he starts asking questions or pushing back on it after we agreed to it. Anyways I snapped back and told him if he wanted ...
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Dealing with Creative differences
What’s the best way to deal with creative differences between Brand Managers and Marketing Performance Team?
We have a performance marketing team that wants to create content a certain way in order to ...
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As a PM how to get proper communication from team members?
I started work in a new company three months ago as a Jr PM and after a month of shadowing/training I got my first project assigned. I'm leading a team of six people. Overall everything is fine except ...
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As a manager - how to handle a conflict between team members that reached a boiling point
Two of my employees were given a big task. They were responsible for splitting the work between them and coordinating the efforts and sub-tasks. The task seemed to be running smoothly for two weeks ...
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How do I reestablish my position as a dependable employee again?
Joined a company as it was starting up in my city. They didn't have a HR department, there were no supervisors, the training environment was still being built. Everything was completely fresh and it ...
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How to deal with a dev who is working his way
I am a senior developer, working in a big tech company.
My team is a new team, got created recently.
We don't have a manager, because the manager left the company.
The manager of the department, asked ...
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Quitting job in the first month due to repeated insult from a colleague and how to leave the job gracefully
I joined a company from 1st April, 2021. My problem is a little bit complicated. My manager is remotely located in Australia. He has been so far nice to me and guiding me.
I did my PhD in chemistry ...
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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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I got promoted but my colleague did not
Recently I got promoted to a senior position. My colleague, who is better than me technically, failed to pass the promotion, because of some communication issues. We used to compete. We used to fight. ...
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Could you help me to understand this workplace situation?
I am an accounting manager. At the end of last year, my old boss (Ben, our SVP of accounting) resigned. I now report to Matt (our head of operations), who in turn reports to Steve (our partner). When ...
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How to handle disagreements when roots are politics [closed]
I have encountered the following situation.
I am in a specific team in which the politics in various directions are very important. That was never my strong point.
This includes how some of the people ...
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Company is focused on tasks ouput, defend myself working on multiple projects?
My company is focused on "top performers" - people who finish most tasks on the shortest time. It's a competitive environment and that's not unusual for software companies. We are told ...
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Senior engineer suddenly unwilling to do extra work they used to do after being denied promotion
I'm a team lead. One of our senior engineers, Uli, is part of a team of about 7 people that were tasked with steering the company to increased profitability (lots of work involving automation). His ...
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Responding to political doxxing
Today I was approached by my direct manager, warning me that the company has been approached by an unidentified person with some accusation with regards to my political preferences. No further details ...
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Is it appropriate for a leader to give advices but with trivial reasons?
I was reporting to a manager on a very technical proposal. While I was describing my solution the manager interrupted saying a trick I used seemed implausible. Then I responded to him with a why. ...
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How do I objectively calculate and pay colleagues and myself for time spent working on our startup?
Background:
I and two other colleagues founded a start-up company a number of years ago. We’ve spent a lot of time over the years building our product and the business and we expect to start earning ...
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When should you go to HR vs. your manager with regards to an issue with another employee?
I had a previous role where I was having a problem with a disruptive, socially unaware colleague, and ended up asking HR about how best to handle it.
We had a solid talk and it was discussed that I ...
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Mass resignation (including boss), boss's boss asks for handover of work, boss asks not to. What to do?
I am in a really awkward situation. I work in a small subsidiary company whose parent company is overseas. The parent company is in Singapore and owns our company here in Vietnam.
We are completely ...
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