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Questions referring to how one presents themselves and interacts with others in a professional environment
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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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Bosses/co-workers pretend to know things that they don't know
If you are at work you don't ask if someone know what X is. You say "we'll be doing X". If someone don't know what it is (and that knowledge is critical) they will ask for explanation.
If it's not cru …
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How to not answer an uncomfortable question in a group interview?
My answer is partly based on your second question which shed some light on what job this interview was for.
I found it very stressful presenting to a large group on something I'm not experienced …
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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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Is it ok to go the extra mile and then retreat?
How bad will it be if I now make the tools unavailable to my team? As I say, this work hasn't been requested by anybody
In Polish we have this saying of "taking my toys and leaving the sandpit"
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How politely decline positive feedback?
I would rather move this to Interpersonal Stack.
rom what you write you have problem with responding to that type of feedback while welcoming negative one.
How many negative comments without positive …
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Unrealistic duration for the task: refuse or start with understanding I will not do in time?
Do the
inform that the task cannot be done in set timebracket
ask if you should carry on with the task
inform what part/percentage/stage of task will/could be done in set deadline.
set a realisti …
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How to deal with my manager wasting hours of time with meaningless meetings
First of all
Other managers, including the CTO himself and vice presidents, frequently butt heads with my manager, decline his meetings, tell him that he's wasting their time and walk out, and so …
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Should I say anything 'bad' about candidate(s) who'll be replacing me?
"I was asked to conduct a technical round before our director meets
and finalizes a candidate".
You were probably asked to do this because you have the best grasp of what the candidate will be …
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Is it professional to answer questions about self evaluation?
I will focus on the part of interview. In the case of being already employed your weak points are usually pointed out by your supervisor as places you (you and company) need to help you improve. A que …
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One of my subordinates ignores my instructions
I'm her manager, but even though I'm giving orders, she does not follow on this specific topic.
She says she has better calling lists, which are old patients (+4
years without any purchase) …
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How do I prevent employees from either switching to competitors or opening their own business?
I would focus on:
don't want my technical staff abandon me when they believe that they can have more benefits elsewhere
rather than the last one because that is basically a question of "Non-comp …
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How to refuse to go to a meeting without a key team member present
You don't need your manager to go with you. You need him to tell you how much power you have. Let him outline what are the "yes and no's" and if he put in you the authority to do so. Simply ask
Ba …
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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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CEO talked to me about letting me go. Now he is trying to keep me, but I want out. How shoul...
Personal note: from what you wrote it looks like employeers is thinking they're making his employees a favour by emploing them. So in his opinion employee wanting out might be "disrespectful".
So I …