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Asked supervisor to be considered for role that was opening up, got vague answer, saw posting on Indeed - next step?
I have been working in a very part-time role for a company for 2 years. It's well paid for the small number of hours (teaching a couple classes a week in a subject in which I have an advanced degree). ...
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What to do to rescue a software project when the only ex‑remote community manager goes rogue? [closed]
We trusted someone working under a pseudonym to manage our social medias. After 8 months he asked for a rise of over $30,000 in order to continue : for this reason and other minor ones, we let him go ...
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Can I challenge a hiring decision?
I apologise if this was asked before. I couldn't find a suitable question in spite of searching all possible keywords.
I got rejected for an entry-level quantitative analyst position at one of the ...
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How to write the perfect follow up for my situation?
Two days ago, I had an interview. I was supposed to talk to the team lead and someone from HR, however the HR person did not join us. Long story short, I think the interview went quite well with the ...
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Is it allowed to follow already paid courses during notice period [closed]
The company has paid for some online courses for another colleague. This course is available for everyone to follow in his team since it is already paid for. Is it moral and usually OK to pursue those ...
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Is it proper to ask my employer to change an international flight to an earlier time that's not red eye time?
I will soon be traveling to Japan to visit another division of our company for which our division will soon need to work closely with.
I will be traveling from a city on the east coast of United ...
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Should I hear from a prospective employer after my physical?
I accepted a job offer in healthcare a couple of months ago. I have done all onboarding, and have my orientation scheduled by HR in July. I went for my pre employment physical almost 3 weeks ago but ...
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Telling a small lie to manage profession does hurt ? Religion and politics vs workplace
There will be a cultural based festival, and I was invited to that.
But from my religious point of view it's 100% against of my principles.
Actually it's just a new year festival, and it's based on ...
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Should I confront the owner of the business (he hired me) about my supervisor lying about my performance and subsequently firing me? [closed]
I was hired as office manager for a kitchen & bath design company. During the interview, I was very candid about what experience I had, as well as what I didn't know about the position, i.e. the ...
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How to make sure everybody does all the "other" things?
I am the owner/ceo of a small company (30 employees) in a high-tech market (warehouse automation).
Besides the work, people need to do all kinds of "other" things. Think of, for example:
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How to properly replenish knowledge in order to work in the topic of space technology? [closed]
I have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a master's degree in mechatronics and robotics, and my PhD is due soon. After my PhD, I would like to work professionally in the field of space ...
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How to damage control after an internal oppurtunity got nullified due to hiring freeze?
I was interviewing for an internal mobility role at my firm (a big financial company). The interviews went quite well and it was all but certain I would get the role. I had to do a fair bit of ...
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How to tell a colleague who always apologizes for noise, that his apologies are more annoying than the noise itself
I'm an engineer, my work consists mostly of silent coding and testing.
My office is a room in a shared office space, and my room is adjacent to a meeting room of a consulting company. On most days, ...
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New job project 100,000s lines of code with no low level documentation [closed]
OK. So I have joined a new organization as RTL engineer (FPGA/ASIC front end work). The design that I shall be working on is literally 100,000s of lines of VHDL code and several dozens of very large ...
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Applying for jobs, an offer is coming... and I do not know, it is the last or the best [duplicate]
Problem is the following. I applied recently for a lot of jobs (approx. 30), call them Company_1 to Company_30.
After many rejections, now an offer came from company Company_17. It is not very good (...
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How do I earn work experience to get a job if I need a job to earn work experience? [closed]
I am a software developer with experience in the Dart programming language and the Flutter framework. My major was in Electronics Engineering at George Brown College during the COVID-19 emergency.
I ...
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Is "growth opportunity" a good answer for why are you leaving job?
I've been asked this question at basically every interview. I usually say looking for growth opportunities (basically want higher salary), but it doesn't seem like the interviewer really likes that ...
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I enjoy my part time job but they aren't paying for all work hours
I work for a company that sends me to different stores to give out samples. The pay is by hour. I used to do it for the money, now that I have a full time job I just do it because the work is ...
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Would I be jeopardizing a working relationship if I voiced my displeasure with a coworkers actions?
I work in the United States. I have been working with a co-worker, Jane, for 9 months. We do similar work. She has over 30 years of experience on the job. She is an invaluable resource. I can ask her ...
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Is this a good leadership strategy?
So I am relative new in my career, and I just secured a long-term internship with a small company. I have 2 leaders, lets call them X (the guy) and Y (the woman)
The guy rarely chit-chats-- he seems ...
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What should I do if the HR is being less responsive?
I received a written job offer and accepted it just a day after. Since the workplace is in another country, it takes some time for registration process and I was asked to send some documents for that.
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Uncomfortable in one-on-one meetings. Do I let my manager know this?
I work in the United States. To give some background, I worked for six months reporting to a manager who never micromanaged and never requested monthly one on one meetings with me. I just did the work ...
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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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Resignation and Two calendar month notice period
I've handed in my resignation on the 2nd of May, being that the 1st of May is a public holiday in South Africa.
I sent a courtesy message to my manager on the 1st, to let him know that I will formally ...
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Handling an Uncooperative and Disrespectful coworker and Maintaining a Comfortable Work Environment
I am currently working part-time as a Head Cashier at Home Depot and facing a challenging situation with one of my cashiers, an older lady who often displays an unwarranted attitude. For example, when ...
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Can the word "girl" be derogatory when used to address a well known colleague?
I have worked in the cybersecurity division of my employer in the United States for about 9 years with last 4 years, in a management role.
I have a female colleague whom I know well , and is also in a ...
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Why would my boss try forcing me out if he can just fire me (at-will state)
I'm an at-will employee. I have good reviews going back 2 years.
Lately I feel a strange atmosphere
boss asking co-workers questions he used to ask me
using them to assign tasks to me and approve my ...
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Requesting Full Remote Work as a Reasonable Accommodation for a Drug Side Effect [closed]
I am currently working in a hybrid model where I go to the office 2 days per week and work from home for the remaining days. I have recently been diagnosed as pre-diabetic and started taking ...
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I have been invited for a post-interview chat about a position for which I am not selected. Should I still attend?
I am currently a part-time employee at Home Depot.
After a nine-month job search, I finally landed an interview at Home Depot through their internal portal. Although the interview seemed positive, I ...
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Is asking for details of a future raise alright even if it's months away?
I theoretically had a contract review (salary raise, etc.) on December last year but it was not performed. I was told that it made no sense to do so as for that time I had only been there for half a ...
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Attending a conference before or after resigning?
A local DC-based university invited me earlier this year to attend a conference they are putting on for professionals in my industry (healthcare). I am looking forward to attending, but I am also ...
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Is getting an invitation to the office during interview process a good sign?
I’ve already gone through 3 interviews for a position and the hiring manager is inviting me stop by the office. The order of my interviews were abnormal (hiring manager, recruiter, SVP) brining ...
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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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Leaving a note regarding unlocked computer
Yes, these questions/answers are related but do not answer my question.
I work in a company that, to my understanding, handles very sensitive information on its network.
The open space in which I am ...
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.NET developer test
I'm writing to ask if a company might serve as a suitable fit for me.
One firm I am applying to informed me that they would use external tests to evaluate my knowledge of .NET developing skills if I ...
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My new coworker is actually ChatGPT [closed]
We recently had a new member join our team. We are all fully remote. I have become 99% convinced that my new coworker is just ChatGPT.
Here's the background:
We rarely have team calls, and generally ...
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How do I tell coworkers about my pronouns?
I'm genderfluid, and I use xe/xem as my default pronouns. Other pronouns, such as he/him or she/her, are not always wrong for me but my preference varies, so I prefer not to put them anywhere semi-...
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I have 4 week notice period and if I give notice today, how many more days (apart from today) do I need to work? [20 or 21?]
This might be a very obvious question to answer. Today is 2nd May. I have a 4 week notice period. HR told me that notice period starts the day after tomorrow. (fine, this is consistent with what the ...
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Resigned, .manager announced my new employer to all without permission
I'm in UK and I’ve just resigned as I’ve accepted a new role at a direct competitor (a better package). I have two questions I'm hiding for help on.
I asked my manager what to do next when handing in ...
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LLC Hires Employee... asks them to work for a separate business owned by LLC owner [closed]
The LLC I work at, where I am in a managerial position with accountability and access to company finance, recently hired a new salaried employee. The majority owner in the LLC also owns another ...
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Sabbath Exemption on Saturdays [closed]
At my interview with my employer I told them that the only day I can't work is Saturdays due to my religious beliefs. I was told that was fine as long as I was ok with working on Sundays as the need ...
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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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Dealing with a toxic mentor
The company I work for has a mandatory mentoring program. Every employee is mentored by his line manager. I have meetings with my mentor every two to three weeks. The idea is to talk about areas I ...
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How to handle project when there are too many requests for quick development?
Our company Y has various partnerships with other companies to sell products. However, Y is now developing its own application to sell products. Unfortunately, even before developing the product, they ...
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How to ask my workplace to amend my leaving date
I work in a special educational needs school. I sent my resignation letter to the Head Teacher yesterday, giving 4 weeks notice. It works out well, as my last day actually falls on the last day of ...
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How to deal with a colleague who keeps making careless errors
I work with this colleague whose job is to prepare a report document, and my job is to review it, and add comments if there are any mistakes (grammar issues, logical, etc). Once they follow up on my ...
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Is it good to indicate I'm looking for a job in a LinkedIn post?
I'm working as Instructional Designer in country A, I changed my location at LinkedIn to country B since I want to relocate and work there. Also not to forget that I aim for a career change.
Is it ...
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For the purpose of a job application, how do I know if I am compliant with 15 C.F.R. 730?
I read in a job listing that the position may require that I have legal authorization to access controlled technology per the definition in the Export Administration Regulations 15 C.F.R. 730 and am &...
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Accepted new job and they've asked for current employer reference
I started a job last month and I am not enjoying it. My dream job got back to me last week and gave me a job offer that starts in September.I accepted the offer.
Now the new job wants a reference from ...
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What is the best course of action if the Head of HR is making unsubstantiated and false accusations?
Strange situation where in an email thread which included top management and CEO a non management person (a highly skilled employee) made a statement. The Head of HR basically accused that person of ...
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