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Questions referring to how one presents themselves and interacts with others in a professional environment
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A do-nothing "job"
Working form home has the attached stigma of being a slacker. It is okay every once in a while but if you say things like "I don't have anything to do in the office anyway", you attract the attention …
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my coworker sits on chat all day / how can i ask for a payrise?
Find a better place to work and get away while you can. You are describing a California state government office of any kind. Manager/Supervisor favors few employees and they can get away with anything …
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As a highly skilled intern with previous work experience, can I tell my boss I want non-triv...
Before going to your boss and asking for more "challenging" assignment, think about something: You will be at this company for the "summer internship" which tells me you will be there 3 months, give o …
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How can I politely tell a business acquaintance that their behavior is inappropriate?
If you don't mind straining your relationship with this person, go to him and tell him flat out that you already are receiving too many email messages and if he could take you out of this distribution …
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How to discuss removal of pets from the office?
I don't know how the owner of this company feels but some people treat their pets like their children and they get offended by suggestion to remove "their children" from their vicinity. Although I agr …
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How to evade work-safe topics when I don't have a culture-safe opinion?
If you have the attitude of spewing your ideas about these people here, but not to their faces, you have very little to complain. You just don't voice your opinions.
If none of these people can make …
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Counter Offer can it ever be good?
Depending on where you are in your career, the answer might be different but looking at the time span you worked at your current employer and comparing your compensation with the newly hired teenagers …
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Keep getting called on my personal phone
Your personal phone is yours and yours only. Your employer, can not expect you to answer work related calls on your personal phone, unless this has been written into your contract.
But, if you refuse …
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What can I do to make a coworker's lack of effort more visible?
If his output, or lack thereof, is causing your performance or output look lower/worse than what it is, you might want to talk to your (hopefully) mutual supervisor, without bringing in the excessive …
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How to be treated as an adult at work?
I am not sure how many of these apply to you, But, I am in my 50s and since I have been in the workforce, every year, I had to work with someone young, very young, let it be an intern or a fresh grad …
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Are such religious references typical for US-based companies or should I be worried?
I know this is going to sound a bit over the top, but when you read this statement, you should know that the founders or top management of the company values religion. Even though US is very non-discr …
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Dealing with a slow growth curve in improving automation skills and how that affects ones ca...
The answers you are looking for are primarily opinion based and can not be answered by anyone but yourself. Slow is a relative concept. If your department is full of people who are fresh college grads …
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How to deal with a contracting client trying to get me to go fulltime
If I were you:
I would get something from the hiring manager in writing, like an employment offer, before starting to think about it.
If the money they pay is comparable to what you are getting from …
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How to re-ask for an interview when the recruiter returns from travelling?
As you have requested to be contacted after the date here, I am reaching out to you to schedule my interview for the intern position at department and/or company name. I'm looking forward to working a …
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I told a supervisor that I'm seeing a psychologist. What repercussions should I expect and h...
This is the exact reason why the medical information should be withhold from management at workplace. Regardless what you do from now on, that supervisor will look at you and think, "(s)he has mental …