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How do I know I'm not unknowingly messing up my software apprenticeship?
I'm currently in the second year of my apprenticeship as a software developer in Germany.
My day-to-day work consists of getting tasks, doing them and then handing them off to the customer (other departments at my workplace, no external customers).…
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What can I do about a very loud coworker?
Our office space is pretty tight and there are no cubicles.
There is a guy sitting next to me and he is the loudest person I ever met. He is groaning, crackling, puffing, giving loud sighs and other very weird sounds. All these are non stop sounds…
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How to deal with an employee who is requesting a demotion?
It's quite normal for an employee to request a promotion. However, I got an employee who is requesting to be demoted!
At first, I thought she is trying to send a message by that action. After a small meeting with her, it turned out that she…
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How to prevent being used as a personal encyclopedia by coworkers?
I happen to be the technical expert in our company, in a relatively niche field we base our products on, so the knowledge I possess is not easily searchable on the open web. Besides development tasks, I naturally have the task of helping my…
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How to objectively counter "You are the first one to complain about that."?
I've been facing this situation for some time where our office's management keep choosing the cheapest option whenever they have to pay for anything related to our work environment or company travels.
For example, We are a small subsidiary in…
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How can I stop being badgered for "leaving early" without hurting my co-worker relationships?
I currently work in a corporate environment where the majority of the company works typical hours of 8:30 AM - 5 PM. Many employees vary work hours based on personal obligations, however often times due to work load a lot of people in my department…
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Sexy desktop wallpapers in the office
A colleague uses a wallpaper manager which cycles through his collection of desktop wallpapers, a seemingly unending collection of tattooed women in lingerie. There is no nudity but the images are definitely sexualised in that the models all have…
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How to stay relevant as programmer in long term
I am 29-year-old programmer.
One thing I noticed with passage of time is that I'm not as ambitious, sharp and energetic as I was at the start of career. My job becomes more demanding as I age and requires learning new stuff everyday, something my…
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How to manage "slogan spammers" when taking strategic decisions with long term consequences
I work in a fast growing organisation. We have a few slogans that people spam around to justify decisions. Imagine we are having a strategic meeting, we are debating whether a solution is better than another, and somebody stands up and says "Just do…
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What's the most polite way to tell a manager "shut up and let me work"?
I'm the youngest/most junior in my office and often one of my managers will come and give me something to do or change some requirement for a project, then just stand behind my desk repeating the same sentence for 30 minutes to an hour.
It'll be…
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Team member is vehemently against code formatting
I am the manager of a small team of developers (5 engineers, including me).
A few months ago, on the suggestion of another colleague we introduced
mandatory code formatting in the code base, for our main project. Our
project is in Python and the…
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How to answer pointed "are you quitting" questioning when I don't want them to suspect
"[Not] telling your boss you're quitting" is a broad issue spread over many questions, the closest duplicate to mine is probably here. The consensus is that you have no obligation to prewarn employers that you're looking elsewhere and there are…
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Why do I never get a mention at work?
Over 4 1/2 years ago as a young 20-something man, I started my job as a trainee SQL Developer. I had no qualifications or experience in the field at the time, and the company that hired me did so with complete faith in what I had said during the…
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Why is it not a good idea to "badmouth" a previous employer?
My life is miserable at the company I work for. I'm in the tech industry in an organization with one of the best companies in the world, yet the workplace I'm in is completely toxic. People seriously dislike each other here. My boss is a…
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Slow coworker receiving compliments while I receive complaints
Long story short, how can a good/fast professional receive compliments about how fast and exact their fixes are?
I don't want to hear like "oh great job buddy" every time I solve a problem. But I can solve problems really fast, I'm an SQL server dba…
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