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Questions relating to the various physical and psychological factors in the workplace.

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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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 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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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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