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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Changing your mind about parental leave
After the birth of our son, I (husband) chose not to take parental leave (Elternzeit), which in Germany is guaranteed by law.
My boss asked if I would want to go, and I said "no".
However, my ...
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How to handle subtle strategies of disrespectful behavior? [closed]
The manager of our building employs certain strategies to maintain her position.
A recent example:
She commits an error.
She tells the staff that the error was committed by the owner and that ...
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Manager Not Changing Errors in Online Job Postings-Suspect Manager is Lying
We are currently hiring two full time employees with 40 hour work weeks. The positions are Clerical Aid I and Clerical Aid II. The Clerical Aid II posting has more responsibilities than the Clerical ...
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How to avoid mental suffering knowing that I have no resources (time, etc.) to fully satisfy client needs?
Client has changed the usage patterns (pre-holiday effects before the long Christmas holidays) of the software developed and supplied by the company for which I am working and new errors due to ...
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What should I do about the negative feedback I received from my supervisor?
I have been working an entry level position in an R&D lab for 3 months now. This is my first job straight out of college and I have the lowest position at work. I didn't get any real training or ...
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I was offered a job at one of my clients. Would it be unethical for me to take it?
TL;DR - I was offered a job at one of my clients. Would it be unethical for me to take it?
I work as a contractor for a person with strong ties in the education industry. He wants to start a new ...
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consulting industry - chaotic behaviour
My team and I have been working on a change management project. Our client, a director, has set rather broad goals on a particular topic to reach within a complex context.
D doesn't participate in ...
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Is it illegal to deny or charge customers for receipts? [closed]
I've had an unfortunate experience with a passive aggressive secretary who initially demanded payment when I presented her with a request for a digital record of my invoice/receipt history. I promptly ...
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Prospective employer asking for my current pay slip during interview
I recently did an interview (location is the EU) for a smallish IT consulting firm.
They have been quite insistent in asking salary, benefits and contract type of my current job. In the end, the HR ...
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How to deal with a difficult employee who doesn’t want to change
I am a manager in a software company managing about 30 people across multiple teams. I have 3 team leads in each section reporting to me.
One of the team leads — lets call her Linda — is a very ...
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“You are not paid to think, but to do X” is always wrong in the workplace?
Background
I work in an IT consultancy company of about 200 people. As in many other companies, we work on multiple projects, with short deadlines, with a lot of pressure, both from internal managers ...
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What personnel files should I request after unfair dismissal?
I was unfairly dismissed at the start of the year after another employee made a false allegation against me.
This could have easily been disproved but was dealt with very unfairly and I was dismissed....
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Former supervisor rejects my idea, competitors implement it and thrive and I got fired for not being experienced enough to deliver new ideas
I was in a job where they expected me to come up with innovative ideas. I had one excellent idea where I insisted on working on it and got rejected like 3 times from my former supervisor. The third ...
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Colleague taking credit for my work [closed]
I work at an engineering company where we do circuit development. I was handed the task of laying out the circuit board, tracking everything up, placing components etc on a very small PCB. To fit ...
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Handling a tricky ex-employer
A friend of mine works as a Nurse Practitioner and was employed under an MD in his private clinic. She recently quit her job and now the ex-employer wants to hire her back. She ended up leaving the ...
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Is expressing anger prohibited in the American workplace?
Recently some co-workers were called in for a stern chat with the boss because they had expressed anger during a meeting, when the boss was out. The anger seemed reasonable. Specifically, two co-...
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How to deal with co-worker who is unwilling to communicate during meetings?
I have a co-worker who communicates very little during meetings. She is very talkative and outgoing in other situations outside the scheduled meetings.
My supervisors keeps asking the two of us to ...
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Is it a good idea to contact a candidate?
About a year ago I resigned from my ex-employer. After my resignation, my ex-employer hired some new people.
As the work load in my new company increases continuously, my new employer decided to hire ...
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Defense against HR bully
Today a HR representative (G) made a mistake; she left confidential material in the printer, and someone unknown put it on the desk of the person (P) whose name appears on top of the documents. P went ...
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Discovered that my new job has cameras in the restrooms
Location is Washington state, USA.
I've been at this company for less than a week and I hardly know everyone yet. I had to go to IT today to get some stuff set up and the sysadmin had all the ...
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How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose “GPL'ed code”
I'm currently the only HR worker at a medium sized engineering firm in Canada. There should normally be 2 additionally HR workers on-staff more senior than me, but one is on parental leave and the ...
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Is running allowed? [closed]
I just got scolded by my instructor for running.
I was chasing after someone who asked me a question, and I found the answer after the person left the room. And on the way back I naruto-ran outdoors ...
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Decline discussing any issues or problems
Short story:
Performance review is coming up, I kept my side short (one meaningless sentence per question) for reasons of complete demotivation and despondence. Boss will surely ask "What's wrong?". ...
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(Would be) teammate called me privately to tell me he does not wish to work with me
I've never faced anything of this sort before.
I interviewed at this firm for a position, for which I was rejected, but after the interview the manager requested if he could hold on to my resume for ...
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My company wants to hide the fact that I'm leaving by announcing I'm on a sick leave
I'm working for company A. Company A is outsourcing me to company B, and company B is outsourcing me to the company C, where I work on a project for a client.
I'm leaving the company A soon, and my ...
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How to deal with intolerable behavior of a subordinate?
I have a junior working under my lead on a project. I am extremely unhappy with his behavior. He has many problems related to his attitude, but I will mention just two of them that I find extremely ...
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What to do about a seemingly self-appointed, unannounced 'team leader' within our group when there's no official communication but some signs
I work in a functional team of 5 and we report to a manager, Anne. Anne also has about 6-7 other people who report to her doing something different but related. Our group's work is "downstream" and "...
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I’m having problems with coworker, should I quit? [closed]
Okay, I’m just trying to get through college, and I work full time at a gas station during overnights. I get along with all my coworkers except the new girl. She is just absolutely out there. She is ...
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How do you deal with an office worker passing gas in a corporate office
This happens regularly, once, every morning around the same time without fail, right before he goes to the bathroom for a while (not hard to guess why).
He makes no secret of it, lifts one leg, does ...
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Can my deputy manager make me work a shift I can't do?
I've been at my workplace for 3 years. For about a year I've had set nights where I work Monday and Tuesday nights every week. I don't, and have never, worked Friday nights because I have a second job ...
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Advice on defusing a tense situation after disrespectful behaviour from a colleague [closed]
This happened to me today and I'm still trying to digest it. To give you some context, I'm working on IT at a company with several branches across Europe. I don't hold any position of responsibility ...
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Should I complain to HR about being mocked for request I made
I work in the I.T. department as I had an issue with cheap toilet roll and unable to sit because of pain so I decided to put in a request. We use a survey site to put in suggestion and those that get ...
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Team lead says performance is fine when asked, even when he seems to think otherwise
In our company, we have a yearly performance review with the department manager (software department). Our team lead supplies the department manager with his opinion and data, and who then decides ...
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Boss Cheating at Fantasy Football
My boss started a fantasy football league this year with a $20 buy-in with winner-take-all. I don't particularly care for football, but I signed up thinking it would be a good way to socialize with ...
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Coworker assigned his work to me with little notice; how to handle this?
My coworker who likes to push his work to other people emailed my supervisor with me as CC. Email goes like this:
Hi Team Lead,
Here’s the task assignment for tomorrow.
A. WORK WORK WORK ...
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Personal issues preventing from joining new job
I am finding myself in a difficult situation. I took a new job in June with a start date in middle August. I am from a EU country and I should relocate in UK for my new activity. Due to a health issue ...
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Departing senior is ghosting me, I need info and code from him
Some background - I joined the company fresh out of college a year ago. My feedbacks till now from my manager and other team members have been quite positive.
After couple of months after I joined ...
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Degrading talk when resigning job. How to handle this?
A friend of mine works as a Nurse Practitioner and is employed under an MD in his private clinic. The MD used to be very professional and approachable at the beginning when he started practicing his ...
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New head of marketing department makes no decisions, has no clue of the market, steals ideas
I'm working as a webdeveloper for a tire wholesaler and OEM wheel producing company (s/w Germany).
Together with my dear collegues of the marketing department (8) we are facing an awkward problem ...
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How to deal with a manager snooping on employees through security cameras and other technical means
I had a conversation with a colleague over IPMessenger in the office. A few days later the manager made remarks that clearly sounded like what I had said in that conversation. Specifically, I had made ...
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Coworker refused to to their assigned task; how to mention that in upcoming meeting with a new boss after a move inside the same company?
A while ago, I was asked to coordinate measures needed to complete a task. The task was set up to support an important customer C. One sub-task would have fallen to coworker X, who was the only one ...
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Can my old employer save my work email records in to share path after my leaving
I am going to leave my company in September, my team colleague and my manager want to ask IT to keep all my emails record under share path after my leaving, then they can drop in to search history ...
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Are practical jokes common and acceptable at work if no one gets irreversibly annoyed? [closed]
Someone left a cup of water precariously balanced on the woman's bathroom door, and you can imagine what happened later.
A coworker left a note on a manager's chair that said "Tack" after a ...
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How can I get out of riding long distances with an obnoxious coworker?
My company has clients that are a 4 hour drive away from the office. Sometimes the project teams have to visit the Clients for update meetings. The last time this was the case the project manager ...
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Boss asked a co-worker to assault me
I was recently socialising after work and my boss asked my co-worker to assault me.
They did.
This was very uncharacteristic from both the co-worker and my boss but it was an incident fueled by ...
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HR Director was insulting, should I point it out before taking new job?
During my hiring process, the HR Director said I was not worth the company's offer. That I would never get a better offer anywhere because I didn't have much experience (I had 15 years). They spoke in ...
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Senior developer is discreetly remoting in to the computer and watching a coworker
I have a friend working as a software development intern. She mentioned to me that a senior developer, who works with her, was remoting into her virtual machine and discreetly watching her code the ...
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How do I tell a coworker about her stinky body odor? [duplicate]
One of my coworkers wears sleeveless shirts very often and it is obvious she is not wearing deodorant. Often her armpits emit a onion odor. How can I tell her it smells bad? Should I tell her? Or ...
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Erratic behavior by an internal employee against an external employee
Background
I recently started to work for a company A few months ago that leases and sends employees to work as externs at other companies, say Company B.
While writing End to End Smoke tests ...
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How do I address my Catering staff subordinate seen eating from a chafing dish before the customers?
I manage a small catering staff for in-house events of our company. I have an employee who has a history of repeated bad behavior … hiding, not doing their job, etc. When confronted, her response is ...
