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Questions regarding the people one works with. This includes questions about communication, teamwork, or other issues caused by ones co-workers.

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How do I manage colleagues who lie, ignore facts and exaggerate to pursue their own agenda?

Why are you talking with this person in the first place? if I explain there is a process, he will accuse me of thinking about the process, not customers; if I explain nothing is committed, he will re …
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12 votes

How can you teach a man to fish, when they only want you to give them a fish

Expect, and make the person know that you expect, something done by themself. When asked for help tell them "Can you show me what you tried until now?" Because why would you try to do something they a …
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How can I convince people I actually like my job and don't think its beneath me?

From my experience (different field but manager tried to convince me to join his team): I know I'm qualified to do that, that's why you want me to join. The thing is that I'm not only good in doi …
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6 votes

Coworker asking me to not bring cakes due to self control issue. What should I do?

Ask your co-worker if it would be ok if he would just not be invited to cake sharing. From any point of view they are denying enjoyment to everyone because they cannot control themselves. It's like …
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1 vote

Taking advantage when HR forgets to communicate the rules

Maybe the guy is hired for 3/4 of the time? I would ignore the issue and mind my own business. For a few reasons. One of them (experiencing from attending similar course) is that those rules are usual …
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Dealing with nosy co-workers

First - Don't make it personal. Make it Business. Reading data from your screen is kind of serious security problem. What if you have some data "For your Eyes only" and they stand behind you? What if …
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74 votes
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How to educate teammate to take screenshots for bugs without unwanted stuff

He replied, he used to follow the same approach (kept unwanted stuff in SS) in his previous company and didn't find any harm in it. Tackle his response. He is not in his previous company. This is …
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4 votes

How can I ask my team lead not to assign me large amounts of work that falls outside my job ...

Our back-end developer is busy working on an unrelated tech debt issue, but the lead formerly worked on the back-end and knows the code base much better than I do. He doesn't seem to be working on im …
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6 votes

How to deal with incompetent coworker/passive manager?

Outline those extra tasks you are given and leave for your manager to gather all those extras (I suppose your other colleagues would also have some to share) and leave for your manager to gather them …
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How can I highlight how much better I've made our code and deal with a coworker that disagrees?

Show the time - require the reasons. Run old code and yours and show how much time you're saving. Show how old code would equal to rubbish when move to cloud. Show that if it will stop working the r …
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Should I make an event at work to celebrate my soon-to-be-wedding?

If you like to tell your colleagues and give them something it's on you. Depending on part of Germany you might bring cake called Baumkuchen. …
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5 votes

Coworker assigned his work to me with little notice; how to handle this?

You can answer to your supervisor while CC your co-worker: Hi Supervisor, My workload is Work work work co-worker work co-worker work work Could you send me deadline …
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8 votes
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Manager Prioritising Colleagues holidays

you all want the same month off This is a lie. YOU want holidays, they are "not sure". That's the difference. The role of the manager is to either ask them "when" they want those holiday and i …
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Is it professional to ask a coworker to turn off the chat notification sound?

You need to ask him (don't treat this as confrontations) if he can just turn the notification off. Maybe people around him are sitting far away to not hear it? The later you do that the worse it wil …
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Conflict with older employee

She finds different pretexts for the same issue again and again and draws me into various escalation meetings with the Project Manager and the department lead + many other colleagues. …
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