Questions tagged [unprofessional-behavior]
Questions relating to questions unbecoming and / or inappropriate in a professional work environment. Dishonesty, harassment, and discrimination are examples, among many other behaviors.
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How to react to hostile behavior from a senior developer?
I started working at Dec 2018, currently, there is only me and the senior developer and we sit next to each other.
He comes to work really early and leaves early.
When I started working I noticed ...
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Team member gave himself a new job title
A team member gave himself a new job title in his mail signature and asked for new business cards. I was the team lead and moving out of this position at this moment. I can leave it to my replacement, ...
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How do reconcile with getting deceived? [closed]
I am sorry, this is probably not a proper workplace question. However, the issue is severely causing me stress and impacting my work and hence I chose to write here seeking advice.
I hired a custom ...
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Fellow Scrum team member appears disengaged from stand ups, scrum master hasn't addressed it - what can/should I do? [closed]
I'm a member of a Scrum team in a matrix managed organisation (as a QA, my actual boss is the QA Manager who has other QAs in other scrum teams as well, but day-to-day I report progress/blockers etc ...
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What is normal when you get fired from a larger company?
Last week I was fired from a 500+ person company for reasons I won't talk much about, but it was on the verge of a wrongful termination. Let's just say my old boss lied to get me fired since he didn't ...
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Should I talk directly to colleague or go directly to HR for inappropriate behavior?
A new person was hired a few weeks ago. He's tells semi awkward jokes, mostly punny ones or "dad" jokes that half the time, aren't perceived as very funny. Every so often he tells a joke that has a ...
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Junior colleague developing animosity when I couldn't offer professional help
There were a few incidents when I had helped my juniors. They had accepted my answers, were happy with the solution that I gave them and everything went on smoothly until one incident.
There was a ...
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Recover from management getting the impression that I'm haughty
I work for a company that makes a software product. This is my first real job. I started out on a team with a bit of a bad rep in the rest of the company. At first, I thought it was because of the, as ...
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My co-worker is secretly taking pictures of me
I started working at my first real job (not student work) in autumn of last year. In my job there are mostly male employees. I am a (like I want to believe, good looking) female – age 25. We have two ...
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Exposing a company lying about themselves in a tightly knit industry (videogames) : Is my career at risk on the long run?
TLDR:
My former company is the example of start-ups malpractices. They're also vastly lying about themselves. They put me in a difficult situation in the past and I'd like to avoid others to fall ...
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How to deal with a new manager who was promoted rather than me?
At my work, I'm working in a department (of four people) in which the floor manager resigned. I would become the new floor manager, but my boss chose someone a week ago who isn't familiar in this ...
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How to handle a coworker's morbid attention seeking?
I have a coworker in my department whose morbid "sense of humor" is inconsiderate to others in the office. I find it to be disrespectful and insensitive.
I don't want to get too specific with events, ...
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(How) should I make a case with HR about low-profile, regular negative behaviour from a colleague?
I am not sure how to handle frequent, repeated episodes of passive aggressive behaviour or low-profile abuse from a colleague.
E.g.: one of my colleagues was my peer, but wanted me to report to her. ...
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How to find out if you are being given a bad reputation by previous workplaces [duplicate]
Can someone please tell me of a way to find out if potential employers are getting bad information about me without my knowing?
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What should I do if the HR of the company behaves this way?
So I got a call from a junior HR of a reputed company regarding a job opportunity that required my skills, they asked about my current CTC(cost-to-company) and my expectations. I gave them a number x ...
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Do I have the right to report 2 year old discrimination?
I live in Australia, almost 2 years ago one of my colleagues insulted my religion in the form of jokes a couple of times, once when we were at team lunch and the other when we were alone.
I was new ...
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Is it a bad idea to display the F-word on my GitHub profile? [closed]
Ordinarily, this would seem like a no-brainer, but maybe not...
I am a college student currently applying for a summer internship at a company where I would be doing a lot of software development ...
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Potential client has a problematic employee I can't work with
Background:
I'm newly hired in a consulting company (IT), and recently I've met with a client where my employer would like me to go to work. I had an interview and met the team.
The problem is that ...
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Coworker spilled hot bevarage on me because of a meme. What should I do? [closed]
Keeping a long story short - me together with Coworker B made a meme about Coworker A and circulated it in our room, which is what I thought was a group a close friends both in and outside of work (5 ...
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My employer refuses to give me a w4 to change my withholdings [closed]
My employer refuses to give me a w4 form because they are mad because i claimed a workmans compisation
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Staff returning to work after gross misconduct
I was wondering I someone could help me with the below on what paths I can take? I am from the UK.
Recently, accusations was made about myself that could ruin the career I am in. The owner of the ...
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Peer co-worker “out-performing” me due to access rights left over from previous role
My co-worker 'Jan' and I have both worked for the company for a couple of years in our respective roles, but in totally separate teams/functions until now.
We have now (a few months ago) been brought ...
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How to deal with overly attached student?
I'm doing private lessons for various programming subjects. One of my students has a tendency to send multiple messages if I don't reply at once, likes emphasizing his effort even though I tell him ...
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Is it unethical/unprofessional to keep a record of quotes from my colleague's outbursts?
My colleague is a 64 year old guy who is very verbal when working. He often shouts out slander towards his computer and also an ex-employee. Even though these outbursts are incredibly unprofessional I ...
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How can team relations be maintained along with maintaining personal and professional boundaries?
There are many situations in which the management, esp of the small medium business domain, organize events such as sports matches and frequent outings in the name of team bonding. Instead of bonding, ...
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Why would HR think it's inappropriate that I visited a coworker in the hospital?
I just got out of a meeting with my supervisor and a member of our HR department, giving me a "formal warning" for engaging in inappropriate conduct by visiting a coworker in the hospital.
HR told me ...
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Coworker brings girlfriend to the office during afterhours
My coworker and I often work some (unpaid) hours on evenings and weekends. He recently started to bring in his girlfriend to the company. She will sit next to him without talking, doing stuff on her ...
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What to do after I signed a blank sheet of paper given to me by my manager?
I work as a teacher in a kindergarten for almost two years now.
Last week, my manager called me to sign a warning letter about a small issue that is not my fault and not part of my job description. I ...
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My colleague works in an area with high security, yet he lacks the maturity and knowledge to be there
I work with the government. Sometimes we work with sensitive private data to find clues about tax crimes.
Now there is this one new colleague of mine who is too nosey, he is looking into data that ...
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Why does everyone at work take me for granted?
I am an experienced individual, but have worked at my current workplace for many years. I am super nice and say everything with a smile on my face and even if someone is a bit rude to me.
The ...
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Should I join a company if its reviews on glassdoor etc are not very good? [closed]
I am offered a job from the company as a web developer in UAE. I just went on to the glassdoor and read reviews, the majority of reviews were not very good and some were outrageous to an extent ...
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Asking about eating policy during interview
TL;DR: I want to work in a company with a strict no-eating-in-office policy. How can I ask about it during an interview?
Background: Western Europe, software engineering, ~2 years experience.
I have ...
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Can I file a complaint with HR against a coworker’s promotion? [closed]
I work as a Senior Software Engineer on my team, and I have a coworker who was recently promoted to the same level, but she has nowhere near the qualifications for the position, she lies regularly, ...
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Am I being unrealistic asking to go from working full-time to part-time?
I've been working for three months in a software start-up. This is my first job after graduating university. The deal was that I would work for at least three months subject to evaluation, with the ...
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Male makes several female coworkers uncomfortable. What course of action to take?
A friend of mine works in the social sector in Germany. She works at a school for mentally disabled children. The school is loosely related to "Waldorf"-Philosophy, which apparently makes sexuality a ...
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Should I apologize for being indifferent?
A few days ago I was called for a spontaneous one on one meeting with my highest tier boss. I had only spoken to him once during my time working there. I perceive him as a very friendly person.
As he ...
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Should I interview someone who ditched an interview before?
A year ago I was working for a start-up (in tech) and was supposed to interview this guy (X) at 10 in the morning over Skype.
He did not come online that day and HR could not get in touch with him ...
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How can I exempt myself from political conversations during work?
I've tried searching around on the site for this, but because "politics" can mean inner-workplace politics and not strictly national politics, the search has been difficult.
I have a new boss who ...
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Is it illegal or unethical for a supervisor to ask a contracted employee for a large loan? [closed]
I have a coworker who is contracted by a travel agency to my company. My supervisor asked if she could loan her $5,000, and then again for $3,000, and then again for $2,000. This isn’t the first time ...
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What to do about a colleague who asked me to help him start a business competing with our employer? [closed]
A colleague (who currently works at the company) told me that he is creating a new business that would be a direct competition of our current company.
He also asked me to help him with a job for his ...
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Bait and switch? [closed]
I had a phone screen with a small franchise company during which the owner among many other things said that I will start around 12 but have a pay bump up to 14/hr after 30 days as long as I didn't ...
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How should I deal my worker who is stealing my beauty products? [duplicate]
I own a beauty salon and I have three workers who has been working for me for the last six years.However, one of them recently started stealing my beauty products from my salon.
Maybe she thought ...
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I quit my job and now I want it back
I quit my job in March 2018, because my boss made me angry by accusing me of stealing some important documents. In anger, I quit my job. I tried my best to get another job, but I fail to do so.
Now I ...
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Treated like a child at work via excessive praise?
I have recently moved into a new team at work (2 months or so) and recently I have noticed that I feel like I am being treated like I am a small child. This mostly comes in the form of excessive (and ...
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Dealing with a coworker making snarky jokes
I work as a (male) data scientist in a small company (around 10 people, all males). My job is to provide tools for my coworkers to quickly get the information they need from our data to do their jobs. ...
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Can I re-apply considering my previous behavior during the interview process?
So this happened in February 2018, I missed a call from an employer in the morning. Later, I found out that the call was from my dream company to work in. So, I called the back after a few hours but ...
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Is it ethical to use knowledge in main job for side gig?
Suppose I have a main job (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) that involves lots of computer programming, and one day I build a recommender system for my company (think of Amazon.com making recommendations)...
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How do you respond when someone scoffs at your reasoned answer to their question?
I have the following scenario where a person I'm working with is new in the team and they're in a leadership role within the team.
They asked why something was done a particular way.
I gave them ...
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Working with a colleague known to bully
I'm facing the prospect of having to work with someone who has displayed bullying behaviour towards me in the past. She undermines by constant criticism, and uses her elevated position to hold power ...
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Employer is Deleting incriminating emails
My work superior has deleted emails that contain evidence about her wrongdoings from my work email account. Also, emails that support my good work have been deleted.
Is there anything I can do about ...
