Top new questions this week:
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I have been in the corporate world as an electronic engineer for 10 years. I started a job in the first quarter of this year. Some months into it in a 1-1 my boss said that I lack “soft skills&…
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I recently received an email from my manager about a “professional behavior reminder”. It’s very vague stating “Please remember to dress professionally and not speak negatively about …
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Some context: I joined my current company with a group of other people. We all came from a startup that had to close after a financing issue. It was a good deal all around: we didn’t have to do …
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I ride my bike to work daily. Outside our office building, there are multiple rows of bike racks installed. For the last 3 months, there have been contractors doing work around the building, about 50 …
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I am using a 3rd party software tool at work that has some bugs that are not yet fixed. There is no work around for some of them. My boss insists that since the website of the tools says that it got …
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I’m a new leader to a company and for the company a new department. I’m trying to establish myself as a leader of the department. Before me there was another person in another department managing the …
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I am working for an international company, yet on every meeting my colleagues and bosses are speaking German (as far as I know they all speak English). It happened that someone wanted to respect me to …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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I currently work on a legacy system for a company. The system is really old – and although I was hired as a programmer, my job is pretty much glorified data entry. To summarise, I get a bunch of …
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I want to clarify that prior questions were about the interviewee contacting the interviewer. This question is about the opposite, where the interviewer contacts the interviewee. I had an initial, …
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How do I list contracting on my resume? Specifically, I’m paid by company B (a staffing agency) to do work for company A. Company A is much more impressive than company B — everyone locally will …
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Four months ago, I started a new job and joined a project with a co-worker who has been employed here for many years. We were both brought on as experts, but he has subdomain expertise that I do not …
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Yesterday, I was feeling sick. I had a headache and was unusually tired. I wasn’t getting any work done, because I couldn’t concentrate. However, when I brought this up with my boss, and then left …
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I need to write a leave application for taking a planned/future date leave. Which is the correct way of writing the following lines:- I won’t be able to attend the office on Oct 15 as i have to go …
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I have recently applied for a job and I have received an email telling me that they had found someone already (so the problem was not my application, but the timing). Things like this happen, you have …
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