Questions tagged [work-environment]
Questions relating to the various physical and psychological factors in the workplace.
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How to reply to interview questions about showing "core values" that the company says it has?
I had an interview where I was asked the question
Our company has 3 core values including teamwork, integrity and
diversity. How do you show these values? Can you give some examples?
A while ago I ...
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Resignation vs Termination
I recently was told by my supervisor to hand in my resignation or get fired after my 6-month probation with a bad report. The last statement really took me aback, because it sounded more like a threat....
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My boss is trying to throw me under the bus, for his own mistake [closed]
There was this big project from a huge client that my company got. We are a team of 12 people. That includes 3 developers, 1 team lead and my manager
We got assigned work based on Sprints. There is ...
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Interviews: what questions to ask to ascertain degree of autonomy, independence, emphasis on protocols etc.?
I was outsourced out of a job where I had a good degree of autonomy, independence, and ability to plan and do things.
I had to take a lower paying job where I have bumped against various 'blocks' or '...
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How to say 'no' to more work?
How can I say 'No' (politely or in a very smart way) to extra work after work time? How can I say no to work that isn’t my responsibility but my manager keeps throwing at me?
I’m terrible at ...
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How can I ask my manager to reduce threats of disciplinary action from our director?
People in this scenario:
Me - lowly employee
Boss - manager of employees
Director - Boss's boss, head of department
Recently, I started a new job. Since then, I've noticed that nearly every ...
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How do I properly address and handle work burnout?
Short backstory:
I've been working for my current company for a few years as a developer and IT Support\Specialist which includes a lot of calls, help-desk duties along the developer part of the job. ...
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Is it possible to be reimbursed for a car detail due to an unsanitary job site? [closed]
At my job I drive to, they have an ant infestation inside (kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms) and outside the property (parking lot & driveway) that had reached inside my car. This problem was ongoing ...
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Tech lead role in a team topologies type of team [closed]
In recent years in the country where I am positioned (Scandinavia) the role of the tech lead in a 10 person team has been reduced. More and more teams actually don't have a designated tech lead. The ...
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New employee In a small office environment exposed to huge culture issues
I have just finished my first week with what I see as a great company that is poised for tremendous growth. Currently there are only 4 full time employees, including myself, within the office and ...
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How do I politely get my coworker to stop communicating with me in morse code?
A close coworker of mine has developed an obsession with morse code and has decided to use it constantly with me. Whilst I find it pretty cool, it's really distracting and I'm finding it hard to ...
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What can I call actions that seem to motivate employees to give gifts to a senior?
A situation like this has been happening.
The most senior (say the dean of a faculty or a manager of a company) of the workplace, kind of likes to receive gifts. When there are new members, she looks ...
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Corporate Sponsored Masters Flare Up
I am in a corporate paid Masters program at work. Over time, the group has slowly dwindled to only just a few of us now in this Masters program at a local university.
Since then, two of the last ...
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How to ask about a work life balance and conflicts in the team?
I'm interviewing for a Software Engineering Team Leader. I already passed all the interviews. The HR scheduled a meeting for me to meet a Group Leader.
Is it okay to ask the group leader the following ...
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How can I raise behavioral concerns as a candidate?
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I'm waiting for an offer from a company I'm currently interviewing with.
The job is a Software Engineering Team Lead at a company with 300 employees.
My Interpretations
During the ...
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CS career - frustrating PR review [closed]
Edit: I don't understand why I'm being downvoted, all I am doing is asking for advice.
I have been a developer for nearly 10 years, though it's the first time I am in a "tech" company. My ...
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Co worker in my space
I am a high school teacher (Masters degree with years of experience)and my classroom has a connecting door with the ISS (in school suspension) classroom.
Between our two classrooms, there is a small (...
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DSE chair rights [closed]
can I keep a chair that was made specifically for me at my previous job, the chair is at my home address and is over 7 years old
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Using someone’s Powerpoint template for self-introduction
Recently I gave a presentation to a team, and on the first slide I used my colleague's ppt template for my introduction. Now she is accusing me of piracy.
Is it wrong to use a general template design ...
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How to Efficiently Learn Proprietary Information in a Challenging Work Environment?
I work as a Linux System Administrator in a fintech company in Nepal. My responsibilities involve working with mobile banking architecture, understanding the flow of events in mobile banking, and ...
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How to face jealous and biased co-workers
The co-workers with me (we are a new department in a university and hence have only a few workers anyway) are kind of showing a jealousy attitude and trying to corner me. They even pass hints at me ...
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Invited to an Interview follow up meeting
I had an Interview with the Infrastructure Development Manager, Development Engineering Team Leader and the Talent Acquisition Manager for the company. They promised to provide feedback the following ...
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Work environment and relationship, not saying hi gives the right to get insulted?
I work as a data analyst and I had a colleague refer the data to us for Analysing. The referral form had the folder Location but there were 8 folders and the form did not say the names of the files. I ...
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Do I need to apologise when I was expected to do something that wasn’t instructed to me?
My job requires me to do physical assessments which will be used by practitioners to conduct a review during consultations. The normal practice would be that assessments done on the first day, a ...
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I was asked to train new hire on my job - is this eventual replacement?
Boss hired a senior IT team member (senior to me and others) with same but better skill set and I am to train them on my job (other devs are not asked to even though they have the skills to) but I do ...
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What must I do to stop being distracted at my work and playing on my phone?
I keep on scrolling on my phone at work and it's an open work so people notice. Luckily, nobody told me off yet and probs never will since I am an intern and will leave soon. However, for my next job, ...
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How should I let the custodian know that he needs to stop mopping our floors with dirty water?
I have noticed that the new custodian in our workplace often mops our floors with dirty water. The water in the mop bucket is usually dark and it sometimes smells bad. I have never seen him stop ...
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Manager on maternity leave is giving orders
I have taken the manager role for a colleague in maternity leave. She is still involved in the company, requests to be consulted on day-to-day operations, filled-in on employee arguments, and gives ...
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My Boss belches all day, HELP
I work in a professional environment. My boss belches all day. The last time I asked him to be more polite about it he said "I'm in my own personal space" which is his office with the door ...
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As a junior developer, how can I improve if I work with legacy code? [closed]
I graduated in Compsci related course.
I was not great at coding during gradschool, but had some basic OOP knowledge, C programming, Java, Python (with django framework), SQL, and front-end with web ...
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Unequal pay for web and app developers with the same experience - How should I approach my boss?
I recently got a great opportunity to work at an American company that sponsors visas. I am currently a web front-end developer, and there are two other developers on the team. One is an iOS developer,...
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How to prevent nepotism in hiring for my team?
I have been in teams of medium and big sized tech companies in which new people were added to the team without an interview or a normal interview. I found out that the new persons were related to ...
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Called Dr. in government setting? [closed]
I work in local government (law enforcement) in the US, where titles are pretty important. I am a civilian supervisor with a doctorate degree. No one else there has this degree. I completed it two ...
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Need help in dealing with workplace harassment
I went through so much workplace harassment in the last year and due to this I am now suffering from poor mental and physical health
It is really unfair if all team is working from home and your ...
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Is it a good idea to ask my boss for a one on one in this scenario?
Our department restructured and my new boss called me into his office a while ago. He offered me a new position title with a raise. Long story short I asked him if I could just be a senior project ...
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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 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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How do I respond to an impossible task given to me by my boss?
Preface: I understand how to calculate this for past changes or generic data. This is in regards to future changes before they happen in order to justify the project.
I am leading a website redesign ...
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Should I speak about seeing private information about a person?
information about one of my colleagues in the company’s server. Should I tell my colleague about what I saw or keep silent.
I’m asking for the best ethical viewpoint.
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Is it personal or constructive if the business owner criticizes me for expressing my surprise that my coworker takes more time off?
I work for a small creative business of less than a dozen employees, with the founder/owner managing the team as a whole. I manage production, but am only responsible for one employee. This person ...
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Dealing with mean or racist remark from a colleague
I work in California for a small company. I am a brown male. At one of the Annual year end party, I took my wife and my newborn girl to the party. I was introducing my newborn girl to everyone. One of ...
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How can I make the people at my company understand that learning a spoken and written language takes time?
I am working for an international company, yet on every meeting my colleagues and bosses are speaking German (as far as I know they all speak English).
It happened that someone wanted to respect me to ...
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Is there peer-reviewed, scientific research that compares productivity of employees working from home vs. an office? [closed]
I hear lots of anecdotes and opinions about the relative productivity of working from home vs in an office. But is there any scientific research that compares the productivity of these two working ...
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Contractor closed out from new contracts with big department in organisation
This question relates to Norway, the business culture is northern. I have the following problem. I have been working as contractor for Organization X 7 years. Not one stretch but let's say 3 periods. ...
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How to respond when asked to work with a technology you have not worked with yet?
I am currently working in a software development company. During team meeting my reporting manager asked me to look into issues related to node.js (one of the technology) whereas till date I worked ...
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What can I do if I feel Workplace Safety Policy requiring steel-toed shoes makes me less safe?
I recently started a new career and I've been working at a new job in an industrial setting for the past 10 months. So far everything has been going good, I like the work, I like my coworkers and I ...
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In a remote work environment how should I let coworkers know that I wont be available for a few hours?
I work with a small team of people. We all work remotely. In general we have very few official policies. When I started the job I asked what are the work hours. My manager told me that they are "...
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Shall I ask for a feedback about my performance from my boss?
Half a year ago, I got a new management/leader role. This is not the first time I occupy a leadership position but the work environment is different and so are the duties. I am not sure I am doing ...
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What is the work-life balance and pay like as a investment banker?
I'm looking to go into investment banking (IB) or venture capital (VC) after university and have heard many stories about what life is like working in these industries.
My question more so relates to ...
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Should I take a vacation 4.5 months after starting a new job
I am having a difficult time understanding what my manager wants. He is always polite when he speaks and in his words he said “I totally support you going on this trip, family is important so you ...
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