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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
You can reframe your constructive criticism.
Every month we have a two hour department meeting and the head of Loan Operations talks first and gives a run down of the past few weeks activities.
A ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
"Can I suggest she work on cutting down or eliminating the phrase "you know" by practicing or taking a class?"
As OP has an ear for communication quality, consider helping out the ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
If the department is bigger than 10-20 people, it could make sense to pass on this advice anonymously.
It sounds like it could be beneficial for your boss' boss to get this advice, but it's probably ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
Giving constructive criticism to your boss' boss is absolutely fine as long as it's done professionally, politely, and it's directly relevant to how they're doing their job.
However, what you're ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
I have an alternative approach to the "don't ever do this" mentality, and I don't disagree necessarily with the advice of "just don't".
It is possible to deliver this feedback by ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
I completely agree with other answers that just telling your boss what to do is a very unwise thing to do.
First, because it is for something that for most of people would not be an issue. She has a ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
Constructive criticism is great, especially when the recipient appreciates it.
Unfortunately some people confuse constructive criticism with being taken down a notch. They think you are trying to ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
A speech tick is generally at least a slight impediment to a successful career in management.
Making it through line management and into middle management means the person's bosses have found her to ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
Don't waste your time. Even if there's a polite way to broach this subject, it's not likely to help. By the time someone is a mature adult, speech patterns like this are difficult to change, along the ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
No. Absolutely not. Have you given that type of advice to other people? Have they taken it? What makes you think she would be any different?
The best you can do is start a Toastmasters club in your ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
Can I suggest she work on cutting down or eliminating the phrase "you know" by practicing or taking a class? Or would this be insulting?
Telling your boss' boss that they should take a ...
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Shall I consider a text response to an email as official one for leave request?
Send him another email quoting his text message with the endorsement "As per your text message of ..." and say that you will follow and rely on his instructions.
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
Allow me to address your example specifically. I understand why a company would block twitch. It's a distraction, a potential strain on resources, there's some NSFW content on there, and every non-...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
Add some carrots
Other responses are already answering why your tool is not well received. This tool is all sticks and those are very personal.
I suggest to add a carrot:
Provide a simple to access ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
I think the problem here is that you're trying to automate something that should be a management job.
When someone does something that is against your security policy, you're giving them an automated ...
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Shall I consider a text response to an email as official one for leave request?
Your boss is doing damage control, he does not want you talking to your colleagues about needing leave as you're having issues at work. So he texted quickly to pre-empt that potential.
The rest needs ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
What your users are realising is that you are monitoring them.
Even though your monitoring use case is relevant, your usage of users' data is proportional to the task you face, is aligned with the ...
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Shall I consider a text response to an email as official one for leave request?
The way I see it, if someone is saying they'll take care to cover for the days of your absence, that indicates they are aware are okay with your absence. Also since they're in the approver position, ...
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Shall I consider a text response to an email as official one for leave request?
It's not abnormal, though it's probably less common.
If you think the response was unclear (though I think "I'll take care of it" implies authorization), reply to your boss asking for ...
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How do I tell my work I don't want to do the project that I've been put on?
There are probably some people who love jobs that are constant travel all over the place and no real significant time at "home" for their entire careers. However, everyone I've met tired of ...
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New employee In a small office environment exposed to huge culture issues
Accept you don't know everything
You're new and trying to get your head around things, I get it - we were all there once. Trying to categorise people, turning them into one dimensional characters to ...
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How do I tell my work I don't want to do the project that I've been put on?
There are multiple issues here that are contributing to the overall problem. I've tried to separate them out below:
Sometimes you are asked to travel to places you don't feel safe.
You are being ...
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New employee In a small office environment exposed to huge culture issues
There is a lot here to address, much of it out of your control as the extremely new person. However there is certainly one thing which you can do something about:
[The Boss] will say “drop everything ...
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How do I tell my work I don't want to do the project that I've been put on?
Stop being open minded
Companies tend to be happy to give you work, even if inappropriate or bad for your work life balance because they don't tend to care about your feelings. Whenever you get a new ...
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How do I tell my work I don't want to do the project that I've been put on?
The answer is as it always is if you want to change something about your work: you have a meeting with your manager and explain:
You prefer office-based work for reasons X, Y and Z
You understand the ...
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I've been introduced by a freelancer that has been excluded for serious reasons
Jacob, Sophia and Jane can do what they want or don't want. You do not need to discuss anything with anybody there, and it should not affect you. Having married couples in one dept may not be a good ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
I think a lot of the issues people have with systems like this is that the focus is completely backwards. Most people see IT departments as focused on identifying and protecting against external ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
Yes people can see this as very intrusive and they might think you're judging them.
But unless these are almost all false alarms, it just proves that it is probably necessary. Nobody likes being in ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
Sometimes people need to do risky things
The fact that some type of action is risky doesn't necessarily imply that this action is bad - sometimes people do need to things like that to achieve their ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
the real time feedback seems too intrusive, big brother like, and creates distrust that end users are incapable of distinguishing safe from unsafe cyber behavior.
I'm not familiar with the specifics ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
I'd be looking at the systemic reasons why your developers are having to use P2P sites or disreputable code libraries!
The problem with this kind of pestering is that people eventually tune out, if ...
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How can a cybersecurity team mitigate internal customer complaints that real time user training is too intrusive?
If folks have a better idea for a way to give employees the necessary training and help them catch the occasional mistake, that would be great. But all that has really changed is that they are being ...
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New employee In a small office environment exposed to huge culture issues
You seem inexperienced. This is regular old startup culture. The boss is not a narcissist, but a visionary with access to a little bit o' cash right now who has more ideas in his head than he has ...
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How to assist the improvement of company quality by stopping some very low qualities practiced by coworker
People as you describe are usually not going to change unless there's some huge outside influence. You and A are peers, and there's no obligation by A to listen to you whatsoever. The situation ...
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How to assist the improvement of company quality by stopping some very low qualities practiced by coworker
Unless you are that person's manager, all you can do is gently suggest better practices to them (rather than calling them an idiot outright, which they won't listen to), ask them to keep the personal ...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
Honesty is the best policy.
IMHO, what you should do is a bit of research:
what is your skillset cost on the open market, add to that 20-40%, depending on amount of ongoing development (this is ...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
Let's call a spade a spade. You're asking us how you can benefit as an opportunist without being recognized as an opportunist.
If you wait six months to a year after this colleague leaves to ask for ...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
I'd only like to move if it's clear that there's no opportunity for progression in my current company.
Then you should start a conversation about your career progression. That should already be part ...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
A few observations:
Whenever an organization goes from two people doing X to one person doing X it is a potential tipping point. They can decide that they need to find another person (via hiring or ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
Clearly, this makes you uncomfortable, so I think you want to try to get your manager's back.
Discuss it with your manager one to one. Maybe not in a dedicated meeting, but do bring it up. Explain ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
No one is required to give any medical information as to their condition. However, they are allowed to.
There is a reasonable train of thought here that people feel better protected against any ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
As several other excellent answers point out, you don’t need to give any reason in your public message if you prefer not to. At the same time, we’re human — we often feel uncomfortable violating a ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
My workplace has an In/Out Phonelist app. Every employee's name shows in their team (department) with their phone number, whether they are In or Out, and a comment. When they sign on to their PC, they ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
I don't think any of the other answers have discussed the following point:
I would like to take a half day off in a couple weeks time, but it's for a reason I do not wish to elaborate on, at least ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
I'll be out for a medical leave starting next Friday. I'll be gone at least 10 days, possibly longer.
That's exactly what I've told most of my coworkers. My boss and others that I work very closely ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
In most jurisdictions your employer can’t force you to disclose the reason for a medical absence. As long as you have a doctor’s note and inform your employer as early as possible everything should be ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
It does make sense to notify your coworkers of an absence. But in the office, it's not really bright to always share the reason for the absence -- even with your boss -- and here's why.
You may have ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
There is no law against an employee publishing this information themselves.
If your company would require this, it would be illegal in any GDPR jurisdiction and probably many more that have their own ...
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In my department everyone CC's everyone else with the reason for their absence. How to avoid this?
I'd just not give a reason. If anyone asks, look at them like they said something weird, because they did.
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Handling a Refactoring Project with Limited Access to Source Code
I've been chewing on this question for a bit and finally realized what was wrong.
The access to the admin panel and the computer was actually a diversion, and you unfortunately failed the overall test....
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