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How can I address my colleague communicating with us via ChatGPT?
However it is being written, it still has to be something they agree with or they wouldn't be sending it over their name. Treat it as them having told a secretary to draft a response to you, as used ...
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How should I tell my manager that he could delay my retirement with a raise?
I would suggest approaching your manager to talk about your long term plans. Let them know that you feel you're in your last two years of employment. You might mention that this frees up some training ...
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Employee always seems distracted affecting others and his work, found out finally what it is, wondering if I can say something
There is no way you can "know" that having a cat has caused all these mistakes and distractions. More importantly, you don't need to.
When someone who reports to you starts to do poorly, it ...
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How should I tell my manager that he could delay my retirement with a raise?
What's a good way to tell my manager that the timing of my upcoming retirement will depend partly on how big my next raise is, without giving him the feeling that I'm extorting him or giving him an ...
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How can I address my colleague communicating with us via ChatGPT?
LLM's are the current fad in the corporate world. Personally I'm not a fan of using them in this way - if someone can't be bothered to write something, I can't think it's actually important enough to ...
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How should I tell my manager that he could delay my retirement with a raise?
I question your motivation on a raise.
or as soon as I find I'm not enjoying the job anymore or can no longer resist the siren song of retirement
None of that has to do with money. What difference ...
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Employee always seems distracted affecting others and his work, found out finally what it is, wondering if I can say something
You are jumping to conclusions and focusing on the wrong thing.
The cat is not the core problem, and is almost certainly not the cause of anything but that one bit of keyboard noise.
It's legitimate ...
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Employee always seems distracted affecting others and his work, found out finally what it is, wondering if I can say something
Can I bring up this topic with this employee?
Assuming you are this employee's manager, you can and you must bring up this topic.
If the employee is making a lot of mistakes that result in bugs and ...
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Should a single person handle communication between team and external entities?
Generally it is best to have one point person, to make sure a consistent message is being delivered. However, you should have someone else in the loop as backup, under the *bus factor" rationale.
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My availability date shifted in the middle of the interview process, when do I disclose it?
Is it reasonable to finish the interview, and at the last step say
that unfortunately I can only start in 6 months? Or do I communicate
this immediately (and possibly get a bye-bye)?
It wouldn't make ...
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How should I tell my manager that he could delay my retirement with a raise?
If you're prepared to retire now, then ask them for a raise. If they decline to offer it then either retire now or continue working at your existing rate/salary. I don't see how your pending ...
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Should I be worried?
just wondering if I should leave the job or stick it out?
If you aren't able to complete the job without falling asleep, you should probably be looking for your next job - perhaps a day job.
I never ...
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Employee always seems distracted affecting others and his work, found out finally what it is, wondering if I can say something
If the employee is unable or unwilling to fix his arrangements so that he can produce the work you're paying him for then he has ceased to be an asset and needs to be moved on.
I wouldn't make it a ...
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My availability date shifted in the middle of the interview process, when do I disclose it?
You'd have to face the possibility of "getting a bye-bye" regardless.
3 weeks sunk on a 6 week recruitment process isn't that much of an issue, especially when you were wanting 9 weeks ...
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How to politely ask Pakistani team during call to slow down speech, enunciate clearly, and get headset mics?
I witnessed a situation in which two people with good English talked: one native, one not. The non-native answered a question with number "firty" (exactly in the middle between thirty and ...
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Should a single person handle communication between team and external entities?
That depends a bit on the relationship and the types of communication but in general it's a good idea to have a single "owner". That owner is the first point of contact and often has a ...
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Should a single person handle communication between team and external entities?
I agree that having a single point of contact is a Good Thing™ as that person sees the overall picture. And as per @Hilmar even if the point person delegates direct communications to other people, as ...
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How can I address my colleague communicating with us via ChatGPT?
As always in (especially contentious) professional communication, the focus should be on the facts.
The important part is whether the director does their job. The tone and style (fluffy or wordy) are ...
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My availability date shifted in the middle of the interview process, when do I disclose it?
Anytime time frames change, it’s in the best interest of all parties to have that communicated to all parties as soon as possible.
The closer to a deadline a notification of change is communicated, ...
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Should I be worried?
I don't know where you live, where I live 12 hours without a break is so illegal, even the exceptions from the law do not cover it any more.
But anyway, instead of lamenting how unfair something is, ...
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How can I address my colleague communicating with us via ChatGPT?
How can I constructively address this?
You address what you can hold them accountable for, the content.
The means by which they compile the content are for them to address. Maybe a secretary wrote it....
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How to politely ask Pakistani team during call to slow down speech, enunciate clearly, and get headset mics?
They're not a cheap team and are very experienced, so I've asked them to get headsets for our next meeting to at least alleviate the far-away "echo room" issue.
If you have managerial ...
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Should a single person handle communication between team and external entities?
Before asking whether there are solutions, it might be better to identify whether there are any problems?
What are the topics of the communications, and are they technically and intellectually ...
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How can I address my colleague communicating with us via ChatGPT?
It also results in fluffy, wordy messages that don't say anything of substance.
To address this specifically, you could reply to one such email and either
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