Questions tagged [new-manager]
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Co-worker is now managing my team. Does this mean that I'm being demoted?
I work in a mid-size startup (~150 people) in the US. I am a software engineer. My company is doing well, so we're growing rapidly.
I'm in a ~15-member engineering team, writing software for the ...
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Can my employer fire me for notifying them of my unpaid overtime hours?
New boss and department structure at work, they passed me over for promotion and unofficially demoted me by creating new positions above me, taking responsibilities away and pushing me down further ...
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How to interact with a difficult manager a couple of days into new job?
I have a new job and have observed what I believe are some difficult behaviours in my new manager.
I am fairly new to the field, and I feel that the training has been light for a role which relies ...
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Manager is hiring a new software engineer but wont let me help in hiring [closed]
I'm a sr. Software engineer on a small team. I have a great boss (not micro manager), but he is a non technical manager which is completely fine. We are really short on developers and after great ...
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New manager doesn't believe in me and reprimanded me for asking questions
I'm a junior developer. In my first week back after time off due to some issues, my new manager reprimanded me because a senior dev team member complained to him that I was asking him questions about ...
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Employee Complaints of “Micromanaging” about New Manager
I recently took over a bigger office and half of my team were recently hired right before I got here. And I also have a new boss now. This location has been struggling for the past few years with ...
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How to work with a boss that prefers to work with the opposite sex?
TLDR: my line manager prefers to give's me a higher workload and smaller deadlines, asks me to coach his new hires but then questions my professionalism in front of the junior team members, shows ...
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Should I warn our new manager that the previous one didn't always follow company policy?
I work in a retail environment. We are getting a new manager. The previous manager seemed to have rules but didn't care if they were followed. For example he told us, we (as non-management staff) are ...
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What to do about (new) manager simply ignoring me?
I work part time for an agency. My manager recently got replaced. Understandably she does things a differently, and may even be learning the position herself. Sometimes when I ask questions she simply ...
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My manager is leaving and I'm taking over his role, how should the handover work?
I've been working for this company for three years and due to recent restructure my manager has decided to leave and I have been offered the opportunity to take over his role once he leaves.
So my ...
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Communicating my unease about moving under a new manager
I work for a large software company and there is a planned reorganization to consolidate all the designers under a central organization. While normally I would have no issues with this, I've found out ...
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Who to ask about the benefits mentioned in job description and offer letter
When starting a new job, who is the correct person to ask about the benefits mentioned in the job description and offer letter, the direct manager of the new employee, the internal recruiter who ...
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Hiring Someone Your Level or Above
I’m a low-level employee at a tech company. A few minor promotions, but not a lead or manager. I am the senior most (of 2) in my department in my office. Our boss (director level) works remotely, but ...
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Interview Double Speak?
I just had an interview for a role (career shift, really) and it felt good. But something the Hiring Manager said to me (it was just he and I in the interview) has stuck in my mind.
As an ...
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How can I get a problem employee to do work assigned to him when I'm a supervisor with no real power?
In one day I went from being the junior member of a three person team to the senior member of a three person team. It's my first supervisory role.
Unfortunately one of the new members of the team is ...
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Changing line managers
Im in a strange situation where my line manager has been furloughed and as a result im temporarily being put under someone else in the department who I know, have worked with before and respect. And I ...
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New manager relocating employee for corner office? [closed]
I start a new position as manager with my current company/different program next week. This is a new formal position and formal leadership On site has been non-existent for a few years. I was told ...
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Would it be acceptable to request an HR representative to sit in on an all manager meeting?
I work at a quickly growing company that started as a mom and pop and is now being taken over by a corporation. They have made some changes (which I really like to see!), the latest and greatest one ...
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Asking a new employer for hours off in first week
I have an appointment which I can't schedule outside of working hours. It is my first week in the job and I wanted to ask my new employer if on a particular day during my first week, whether I can ...
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How to deal with manager who refuses to communicate with a team member?
One of the newly appointed managers always keeping an eye and criticizing the habits of one of the employees. He always keeps getting frustrated for one or another reason because of him, As being ...
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How do you handle being the only tech guy in a non tech team?
The company I currently work for has a terrible amount of processes that require manual work, thus they are very limited in the amount of projects they can take, as their processes do not scale up, ...
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Moving up the seniority ladder
I'm looking to take up a new challenge, as in changing jobs, but I have a dilemma! I have been in a mid-senior level for a few years now and would like to move to a manager level. However, the manager ...
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How to find peace with new boss' "cultural overhaul"
My new boss started barely a month ago, and it was clear the moment they walked in that they had no interest in learning the business.
They immediately jumped to proposing changes and solutions to how ...
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Kickstarting halted career at 42 [closed]
I am jobless. 10 months ago, I was a Technical Project Manager for a brief stint. Prior to that I was into Java web application development working with various frameworks like Struts,Spring,Hibernate,...
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Problematic Employee [closed]
A San Francisco (SFO) company wanted to have an Asian coverage and sent (forced) an Employee X to start its Asian setup, and after six months was supposed to return to SFO. Six months became three ...
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How do I demonstrate my value against "more experienced" managers/directors in interviews?
I am a mobile software developer that's applying for a Mobile Engineering Manager position at a new company. During my initial phone screening with the company's technical recruiter they were using ...
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Can I give manager feedback about the way he phrases it when giving instructions?
I know this is minor but noticed phrase it awkwardly when giving instructions or tasks. When receiving directions I prefer it to be phrased in the most direct way. For example: "reply to the ...
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How to convince my overseas manager that my new hire is incompetent?
I am a manager in two person office in Asia Pacific (APAC), which is part of a global company that has offices all around the world. I recruited another person so that in my absence support could be ...
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Paying my brothers more [closed]
If I own a franchise and want to hire my brothers to work for me. Is it legal to pay them more than the rest? I’m not sure if there is any law that states I can’t pay them more but if anyone can help ...
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My line manager consistently never capitalizes my first name
A coworker of mine has recently become my line manager after my previous LM changed teams. But ever since we’ve started interacting after I joined the team, when writing messages on Skype, he would ...
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