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Questions referring to how one presents themselves and interacts with others in a professional environment

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Best way to screen calls

You should ask your boss to clearly communicate his expectations. It sounds like he's doing a "guess what I'm thinking" type thing here. As to which calls he's expecting, maybe you could maintain a s …
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How should one handle a recruiter emailing you about an obviously irrelevant job?

I've spent my entire career as a software engineer. Every once in awhile, a recruiter will email me about some obviously irrelevant job. For example, I recently had a recruiter email me about a housek …
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Is there a polite way to say "I am not going to be convinced this is a good idea, but I can ...

I'm going to push back on the premise of the question a little bit here: have you considered the possibility that you're wrong? If not, that's probably part of the problem here. Regardless of how much …
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Is it appropriate to mute others in a video call

That depends why they were unmuted. Are they actively participating at the time, or did they just forget to go on mute when they were done speaking? As long as the participant you muted wasn't activel …
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Politely avoid/decline handshake due to arthritis and maintaining privacy regarding a medica...

I face a somewhat similar issue - while I don't have arthritis, I've had enough hand and wrist injuries to make this problematic. I can't remember exactly where I saw this, but I remember reading som …
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My coworkers don't know how to git and won't listen to me

Knowing the correct answer doesn't do you any good unless you can communicate it to people in a way that they can receive it. Publicly telling people how wrong they are doesn't do that. It doesn't ma …
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I should have been fired, my boss is sorry that I didn't get much bonus

I'm not currently a manager, but I would never fire someone over a single bad month and I don't think that any sane manager would do so (especially when there were extenuating circumstances like famil …
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How to find major customers of particular worldwide public company (Introductions)?

TL;DR Why would the intermediaries you're targeting show any more "willingness to listen and agree" than your target companies? They have nothing to gain from going along with this. Think about it fro …
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Dating in the workplace

The ethics are simple: don't. This would be an serious conflict of interest whether it's technically against company policy or not. There are tons of ways that this can go badly wrong. What is the sis …
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Manager says I take too many sick leaves and that creates a bad perception

I think that you have an incorrect view of sick days. Having 6 sick days doesn't mean that you're "entitled" or "within your rights" to take all 6 of them every year. These are not extra vacation days …
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