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Questions relating to the various physical and psychological factors in the workplace.
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What feedback should I ask for in a performance review?
In general, the question I always want answered is "what do I need to improve upon, or start doing, in order to achieve my goal at this company?" However, that requires you to ask yourself "what is my …
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How to be constructive and solve problems in an unconstructive environment?
I think there are a few things you could do.
Fix one area to be excellent.
Find one area of the code to focus on - something where either there is a lot of new code being written (so that you can in …
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How should I ask about work/life balance during an Interview?
I'd put it this way:
I recently worked at a company that always seemed like they were in "crisis" mode; frequent overtime was normal, we often worked from home on weekends, and it seemed there was …
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Handle a manager who is prejudiced, untrusting?
The offshore project manager [...] was either spending time going around the city or staying at his hotel-watching TV but passing on his work to offshore QA.
Focus on what you can control. Don't …
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How can I encourage my employer to adopt the "Programmer's Bill of Rights"?
I would work on each item separately.
For #1, there's research that shows that more screen real estate leads to greater productivity:
According to the researchers' findings, folks who use a singl …
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Having conflict with my own manager
First, if he says anything negative to you that you don't appreciate, bring it up immediately - "John, I don't really appreciate it when you say things like that."
Second, if he says anything in fron …
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Why are romantic relationships with someone who works under you discouraged?
Dating an employee is a bad idea for several reasons:
Once it's out that you're dating, anything positive that you do for this employee can appear to be based on non-work-related reasons
If you brea …
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How can we prevent theft of food from shared fridges by coworkers?
Get a lunchbox with an actual lock on it. Put it front and center in the fridge. Get others to do the same.
Alternately, if you've got a laptop and a table in the lunchroom, work in there one day. Yo …