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Questions about addressing difficult or complicated communication issues in the workplace. Communication in the workplace may take place in many forms (email, phone, face-to-face, IM) and between a variety of parties (coworkers, managers, reports, clients).

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Team members are afraid to engage in standup or discuss blocking issues affecting their work

Try something new Standups don't seem to be working for your team, why not run an experiment without them? Do your status reports by another method for a few weeks, and observe the results. I'm a conf …
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Transparent feedback about manager to skip-level manager

I would suggest against anonymous feedback in general. Assuming everyone is competent and wanting to improve, feedback will be generally used for improvements, and anonymous feedback means you can't b …
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4 votes

How should I present my work when I repeatedly run into unexpected roadblocks?

Mention some details of what your stumbling on. These meetings are to say what you did yesterday and what you're going to try to today. So do it - even if the net result was nothing. Talk in as much d …
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4 votes

Will I lose my job by saying I can't work certain hours?

It's possible you may, and that's unfair (but life). It's more likely you'll get moved to a shift that suites your availability better. You probably are free nights and weekends - that's when you shou …
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How to keep manager happy with 1 on 1 nonsense?

After a few point out that the agendas aren't changing much week to week, and that we can probably cut these down to one per foughtnight. 15 minutes per foughtnight is probably the lower bound of communication
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Clarifying Gender in Email Signature

As someone with an androgynous name "Ashley" I get misgendered all the time. I once got stopped boarding a business flight because my boarding pass was in the name "Miss Ashley Lastname" and I was cl …
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12 votes

Should I confront coworker over behavior

Calmly ignore it. Be a boring victim who doesn't get it. Bullying is only fun when the victim gives a reaction. If you run to HR - they got a reaction so they think they win. If you quit - they got a …
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