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How could I ask my future employer if I can work remotely?

"What is your company's policy on hybrid/remote working?"
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Whom should I go to if I have a complaint about the assistant director of the company I work for?

From what I read in your post, it looks like you are targeted. Is it to replace you at that particular client or remove you entirely from your position to fill it with someone else, not sure. Crooked ...
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Whom should I go to if I have a complaint about the assistant director of the company I work for?

You're probably wasting your time, especially if you live in a state with at-will employment. I want to make something very clear: I believe that caregiver jobs are very important! However, the ...
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Whom should I go to if I have a complaint about the assistant director of the company I work for?

While I think TheDemonLord's answer is the correct choice for you personally... I think that your main worry here is not your job/working for people who treat you poorly, but for your former client ...
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Whom should I go to if I have a complaint about the assistant director of the company I work for?

If you can't get HR on the phone or by email or by writing a paper letter, and there really is an HR department or individual, visit their office. Ditto the director These are really the only places ...
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Whom should I go to if I have a complaint about the assistant director of the company I work for?

Okay- Wall of Text aside - there's 2 things that jump out at me, I'm not going to answer the question you've asked per se though: We have had a tremendous turnover in our office support staff. and ...
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Should I be concerned that one of my direct reports still has one to one meetings with my manager after I was promoted?

Based on my experience where I have always had good relations with everyone. I would go to my boss and suggest, as an aside something like "Do you think that things would flow better if that ...
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Should I be concerned that one of my direct reports still has one to one meetings with my manager after I was promoted?

I would not be as sanguine as the other respondents. This is not something to not worry about. It’s always a game of chess in the corporate world. Your subordinates like you have hopes and dreams and ...
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How to get past the lack of trust?

How to get past the lack of trust? Produce the work. 3 out of 16 tickets doesn't seem like much to those who don't know what is involved. But you haven't even been there 2 months yet, you're still ...
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How can I state to junior engineers to not work a ticket unless he / she can own the task without demoralizing?

You are conflating two different things: being accountable for the resolution of a ticket with being able to resolve a ticket by themselves. The very fact that you mention the word "handoff" ...
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Transfer to another department but I'm currently in a standalone role

You will never know if the company is open to you moving unless you let them know you are interested - they may have other restructuring they are considering, so it may be possible. However I wouldn't ...
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How can I state to junior engineers to not work a ticket unless he / she can own the task without demoralizing?

Junior people need challenging problems to grow. The problems you described are due to bad process. Why is there a lengthy delay when your junior people escalate a ticket? Why are there communication ...
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How can I state to junior engineers to not work a ticket unless he / she can own the task without demoralizing?

If you have a ticketing system, you should be doing some team meetings to triage the tickets by severity and priority and effort. You can at that time make some decisions about who to assign the mist ...
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How can I state to junior engineers to not work a ticket unless he / she can own the task without demoralizing?

Your assumption seems to be that junior employees can work unsupervised. It is the very essence of juniors that they need seniors to guide them. They cannot work unsupervised. They don't know what ...
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