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Ask yourself: What good are you to the company, if they hired you to look after the lawn, but they have to find someone else to water it? The company's choices are: Let the grass die. Ask someone else …

The way you describe it, you can act as a technical writer or tester, or you'll probably get laid off :-( Since there is a job that needs doing, and there is nobody whose job description fits the tas …

The interesting question for you isn't whether it's your fault, but whether you get blamed. And the question isn't whether your employer is unreasonable blaming you, but whether he blames you. In your …

If that person is absent, and their job absolutely needs to be done while they are absent, then someone has to do it. You ask "can my supervisor force me to do the job". If they couldn't, then you cou …

Your CV should be positive, truthful, and not misleading. I would say for example "My responsibilities included X, Y, Z, but Y was never actually required during my employment". This shows that yo …

In a decent and well-organised company, on your first day at work you go into an office with HR, they have two copies of the contract, they sign one and hand it to you to keep it, and you sign the oth …

Is your boss the owner of the company? If she's not the owner, then by making you do work that is paid for by the company's owner, but only serves her, she is stealing from the company's owner. If s …

I’ll just give you an example what happened to me. It’s a while ago, I was single at the time, and just bought a new flat. I had several furniture deliveries. I had the choice of not going to work, or …

It is quite obviously discrimination. It is also quite obviously not illegal discrimination. On the third hand, you will be losing out on some good candidates. You may reject a candidate who hasn't g …

At a previous company, we had someone leaving, starting a new job Monday 9am and calling us Monday 9:10 am asking if he could have his job back. He got it and HR fixed things as if he never left. So c …

If I was asked: I have a family, and I don't work for others for free. If you think I should spend working 10 hours a week for free on open source projects, that's fine with me if you give me a 25% ra …

It's absolutely ethical to do things outside work that interest you. That includes learning about new technologies or doing things just for fun. The limit is where it affects your ability to do your …

There should be compensation for this as part of your salary. Some smallish compensation to be available (for example for having your phone besides your bed when you go to sleep, not getting drunk etc …

You have learned that doing things in anger is very rarely a good idea. In the future, when you are angry, do nothing, wait until you have calmed down, then think about what you want to achieve and ho …

As a candidate who is "relatively good and fairly on scope etc." you could expect a bit more than the middle of the range. If I offered that range, I would offer the low end to someone who is barely a …