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How can I address my colleague communicating with us via ChatGPT?

Reply: “Got your email. It doesn’t address any of my points, so I will just ignore it “ “Your suggestion doesn’t seem to be thought through at all”. Anything that rejects is mails with minimal effort …
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How do I conduct myself when dealing with a coworker who provided me with bad data and yet k...

If your colleague has an Excel spreadsheet that works, then get a copy of that spreadsheet, verify that the formula you were given matches what's in the spreadsheet, and verify step by step what the f …
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Can an employer exclude you from all meetings during the notice period?

Meetings serve a purpose. Usually the purpose is to keep you up-to-date with future plans of the company, long term development and so on. There are lots of things discussed in meetings where having y …
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Is it unprofessional to get a second job after my boss invested money in me?

You have the right to full time employment. If this company doesn’t want to give you full time employment, then two half time jobs is absolutely fine ethically. The boss gets the money he invested any …
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My successor and her future primary contact do not get along

You can see how this will create conflict. …
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What do I say to a co-worker who is always putting herself down?

Some people have psychological problems, and some of them you'll meet in the workplace. I suppose when you hear "I am so dumb, I am so stupid, what a dummy I am.", you disagree, and others disagree, a …
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What to do if coworkers are holding grudges

Your colleagues are deeply unprofessional, and they are harassing you. They are creating a hostile work environment. That's three reasons already to fire each one of them. With your name I might suspe …
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How to deal with an incompetent department in a new firm

Be very careful about calling someone "incompetent". Those who you think are "incompetent" may have totally different priorities than you would like (for example a manager who won't let them do the ri …
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coworkers unwilling to do code reviews

As far as your junior developers are concerned, they should be doing these code reviews. They won’t be as effective as you would wish, but they will start learning the language you are using, and the …
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How do you deal with disrespectful/angry coworker?

It seems your company ran into a production problem - that happens, competent people have been working on it over the weekend, your expertise was not required, and some completely unrelated manager tu …
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How can I advocate for a change that a very admired colleague opposes?

My worst case of a “rock star” developer was a guy who changed an “if (ptr != NULL)” to “if (!ptr)” because he liked it better that way. Software developers will notice the absolutely blatant bug. And …
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Colleague just won't let things go. It wastes time and affects my morale

Just tell him that he has an attitude that isn't helping. That he is wasting time by discussing for hours things that have long been decided. That it is your job to do your job and not to convince him …
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Should I tell my manager about a passive-aggressive employee?

Step 1: You realise the problem is not that there is anything wrong with you, but something is really wrong with that colleague. So there is no reason to feel bad about any of this, but you can feel s …
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Accused by the team of "stealing" my role from a colleague: all team members are against me

Not a good situation. So the problem was that John thought he has the job, but you have it, and he doesn't like it, and anyone on the level up doesn't want anything to do with it. In principle, there …
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Manager wants to reduce my hours so I don't work with a coworker I'm not getting along with....

Having your hours reduced is absolutely unacceptable. You make that very clear to the manager. Not "I'm not sure" but "No f***ing way", adapted to use the strongest expression possible where you are. …
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