Questions tagged [manager]
For questions related to the person responsible who evaluates your performance or oversees your work on a daily basis.
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Is it ethical to ask manager repeatedly after short interval for onsite opportunity?
I was added to a project a year ago and it was stated that there will definitely be some onsite opportunities later in project.
When I asked, manager told me he will put forward my name to upper ...
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Software developer flow - Code review and inadequate manager [closed]
I work in this small team where my "manager" has been the solo backend developer for 4 years.
The person before me left after 9 months.
When I joined the team I immediately noticed that the ...
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I’m being assigned basic work, how do I respond?
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Short version of the story is simple: I’m a software engineer, and now I’ve been given IT administration tasks. It’s a major step down in terms of responsibilities, to the ...
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How can I give feedback about unproductive one-on-ones with my manager?
I've been working at a large Fortune 500 organization for about 2.5 years. Everyone in the company has weekly one-on-ones with their manager for at least 25 minutes.
Over that period of time I have ...
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Build a culture of Accountability
How can I build a culture of accountability in my team, where people feel comfortable asking for help when they need it, and where they are committed to meeting their deadlines and delivering on their ...
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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 to assist my manager with post covid recovery symptoms when meeting with vendors
I work in a management role in the cybersecurity division of my company.
My manager recently caught Covid and is still recovering. While his physical symptoms are almost all gone, there is some "...
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Should I leave an email regarding the nature of my PTO?
I'm taking two weeks off in the month of December to attend a meditative retreat where phones & other electronic devices are banned during the entire duration of the course. The center will only ...
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Is it wise to address workplace "hand-holding," and if so, how?
Background:
I joined my current workplace about 6 months ago with 4 years of experience. I'm a software developer (relevant for examples). I definitely was a case of "2 years' worth of experience ...
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How to handle boss' team invitation to go to a bar, when my coworker is an alcoholic in recovery?
My boss is visiting his remote team members locally where I work in the United States. In an open environment by our cubes, he asked does anyone want to go out after work for dinner and drinks.
One of ...
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Manager just threatened the entire team for a problem that she doesn't fully understand. What to do?
About a year ago I moved to a new team that wasn't in great shape. The old members were not really doing their jobs very well, and many people got fired to make room for people who would. This ...
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What would be the next step to handling pranks from coworkers?
I've been getting pranked by coworkers for some time now. In the beginning I participated but it came to a halt when it got out of control for everyone. All pranks stopped for several months but they ...
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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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Manager banned tests and Linux [closed]
My manager demanded I stop writing tests and instead start using manual testing like before I joined the company. After I mentioned I couldn't find something using the package manager, they also ...
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Should I deliberately work less to reduce expectations if my manager is giving me higher work load? [closed]
This question is a followup of another question I asked a month back: How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
What has happened since then?
As expected, I have been given a ...
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Can an employer exclude you from all meetings during the notice period? [closed]
After I refused to resign, I got put on my notice period which is 3 months. I have been excluded from all online and onsite meetings in the company, but I'm expected to report to my boss via chat, ...
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Working with an overloaded and stressed manager
I have an intense job where we have 20 things going at the same time, all of them urgent, most of them late, and new ones falling down the skies each day. I am a mid-level software engineer and my ...
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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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Manager has completely lost trust in me, what next?
It all started to go downhill from here. One week, I took lots of leave; some for genuine reasons, 1 for no reason.
From that day, manager is very negative about me and has been losing trust day by ...
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Need a work reference letter from current employer
I need to get a work reference letter on a business letterhead that states my duties and responsibilities for my role in my current job. This reference letter is for immigration purposes and I fear ...
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How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
I joined a new job two weeks ago where I was hired after an interview based on generic JavaScript programming knowledge with my past work experience close to two years. For the initial 12 days, I was ...
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Lazy Intern, what to do
My team had a lazy intern, whom I referred.
My boss assigned both her and me the project, a difficult one involving lots of coding. I was also told that if she didn’t code, I would have to finish it ...
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Should I tell my manager I did not like her tone and demeanor when she told me I did something wrong?
I work in the US in loan servicing in a bank in the corporate office. I am one year new to the industry and about 6 months new to my role. Several of my tasks are transactional. Yesterday, my Manager ...
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How to build reputation back
I am currently working as an intern, and was allocated to work on a big project. I was enjoying the work.
We interns have to report to senior most managers as to what we are working on with mentors. I ...
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Constrained by resources and company policy. What best can i do next?
I am an architect by designation in an IT company, but recently I was given a manager role. I used to work with a good resource (7/10 if I score him) let's say Adam. My neighboring team --Core had ...
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How to prevent being unfairly fired and what to do about it
This is a followup from this question: My manager warned me about absences on short notice
I was adviced to open a new question.
I made a mistake in not telling my boss about an outpatient appointment ...
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My manager warned me about absences on short notice
In the morning about two hours before a meeting I messaged by manager to tell them I was going to a doctors appointment and I would miss the morning meeting, and asked to reschedule it (it's a small ...
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Dealing with "work faster" feedback
I had an end-of-FY review with my manager and while basically all of the feedback is positive, one negative bit of feedback was basically "I'm expecting you to work faster in the future".
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Do I owe my company "fair warning" about issues that won't be solved, before giving notice?
I'm miserable at my first programming job (small company) due to a very long list of workflow and management issues.
These issues cause me a great deal of stress, to the point of feeling physically ...
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Need coworker to do some stuff, ask directly or ask manager to assign it
I have this job that I usually do however this month I'm kind of swamped and need someone else to do this. Should I directly ask coworkers if they can do it or ask manager to see if he can assign it ...
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I am neither getting mentored nor getting relied upon in the job, I need help on what to do next?
It's my first job for that matter. It has been two months since I joined this job. I am a Linux Systems Administrator but clearly I feel I'm not being mentored as I should. My manager told a senior ...
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discussion with manager regarding salary disparity
I was hired a few years ago as a Senior Engineer and was excited to accept the offer, the pay was much better than my previous job so I accepted the new offer without negotiating salary nor did I ...
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Is it useful to split a CV into a HR section and Tech team section?
Since the HR team looks for cursory information (role name, years of experience, gap in CV and technology names like C++ or Java) to filter out CV's and since the Tech managers or tech leads would ...
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Manager asks questions in an investigative mode
I work as a Lead Engineer and Individual Contributor on a project. Our team consists of an Engineering Manager, a Program Manager, and other engineers. After being with the organization for 7 months, ...
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How to deal with a much older colleague who needs help for everything?
I was promoted a year ago to a managing position and because there was no space, I now have to share an office with my former boss. We’re now at the same level. She’s much older than me and doesn’t ...
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My new coworker may become my boss, and he is terrible
I work in a team of 5 persons in a medium sized company. This service is new within my company and was formed by taking people from different services. So in my team, the knowledge of our processes, ...
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How to talk to manager to assign a task to someone else
I am working on a task at a software company for two weeks. Now I realize that one of the team members who guide me is too slow or confusing. I am unable to make much progress after a certain amount ...
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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 help my company in getting more business when they rejected my salary increase and promotion?
I am a very helpful person and love to help out whenever asked to. I am leading a team of half a dozen people and work for Company A through Company B, which is my real employer.
Things have been ...
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Why does my company keep putting me under the same manager? [closed]
I'm a software developer in a large company.
About six months ago, there was some reorganisation on my team, and I got put under a new manager "Bob". The weird thing is that I was the only ...
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Is it the manager's job or the employee's job to set expectations?
Who should set work expectations / goals? Employee or Manager?
Hoping some managers out there can weigh in.
I recently had a performance review that was lacking in some categories and was surprised as ...
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Told it's "my responsibility" to find coverage for shifts scheduled during previously-approved vacation time
I have been working at a YMCA pool as a lifeguard for about 6 months now. I am a good employee who has shown up to every shift, follows the rules and has even come in on late notice due to lifeguard ...
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I think I am micromanaged. What should I do? [closed]
I've been in a big company for several years and recently had a new manager coming in. He is pretty senior in terms of working years, but he didn't work in big corporations before and I feel this is ...
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Unjustified treatment from new manager
I'm working for a big tech company (>100,000 employees).
When I started, I had a different manager than I do today, and I received positive feedback across the board, even when I specifically ...
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My job is has changed my schedule and is having me train in a different department that I do not feel comfortable in, how do I say no?
I work in healthcare and I had my schedule finalized, and my supervisors changed it for training in an area I do not feel comfortable in.
This training is not required, how do I turn this down? I ...
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How can I make my point that the amount of time I consumed was justified?
I work as a Ph.D. researcher.
My supervisor told me to implement a web application in Flask that:
take inputs (project name, protein sequence, secondary structure, email-id) from the user
save those ...
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My boss wants to have access to my password manager master password
Our company has recently implemented an enterprise-wide password manager. This password manager allows us to store all our passwords that we use on a daily basis.
A few days later, I was surprised to ...
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I feel like I am kind of being called out publicly for a mistake I made. Should I bring this up with my superiors or is it no big deal?
This is my first job and I'm just about a month in. My workplace uses an app for staff to communicate with each other, and on this app a group chat has been made including myself and everyone in my ...
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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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How do you handle a coworker who does not know how to work in a team? [closed]
I've been seven months in a small company of thirty people, I work with another guy, who also happens to be one of the first employees of the company, in the same project.
This guy does not use the ...
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