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Administrator thinks I, an IT volunteer student, am hacking the school network

I'm a high school student volunteering with the school administrator, and he is somehow sure that I am always trying to hack the school server and put viruses on the computers. A group of us spent a week helping him repair laptops, and since then we…
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Hired for too high a level position

I'm an experienced developer with almost 20 years of experience. I have a history of being too weak in negotiations and getting too low compensation/position and then overperforming. Two months ago I decided to switch companies and this time I…
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Work requiring employees install Mobile Device Management software on their phones

Throughout the four years I've been working for my employer, I've used my personal phone to keep-up with emails outside the office. It is not a requirement of the job, but it is strongly implied that you should be doing it, and I know of no one who…
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How to say No to idea given by team member, when I know from my experience that it is going to fail?

I have a very hardworking team, and I like when they try to think about a project with broader perspective. I want to respect their contribution and don't like to refuse their ideas, but sometimes I know that a given idea is going to fail when…
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Company wants to "retain" part of my salary?

In a recent peer review I was asked if I was willing to allow company to “retain part of my salary.” The exact percentage was not revealed. They used the word “retain” although they pressed that this is not related to my performance. Some context…
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Deal with toxic manager when you can't quit

At my first job, I had the bad luck to get a manager that was very toxic. This reached the point of him driving most of the team to quit. In the three months I was there, he drove 5 people to quit (in a team composed of 12 people), and was getting…
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How do I tell my boss that I'm quitting soon, especially given that a colleague just left this week

I was offered a much better job position at another company and I accepted it. This doesn't imply a problem per se, but my current company is rather small and another worker, who was on the same team as me, left his position this week. This…
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Response to a bugfix suggestion said to just report bugs (not suggest solutions). Is this typical?

I'm a new employee at a software company, and saw an email sent to an coworker from a system owner, but with the whole dev team CC'd, and it got me a bit worried about the environment. I'm recently out of college so this is my first job so...is this…
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Coworker demands immediate assistance when having computer trouble

I'm a developer at an agency and there is a photographer who works in office. She often has trouble with her computer: accounts, the internet, etc. She comes to me when she needs assistance with things such as clearing cached files (when she needs…
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Coworkers showing up late to start their shift force me to stay longer

My employer cares for 3 slightly disabled ladies 24 hours a day. My job is from 2-6pm, to take these ladies to and from their jobs. My employer is threatening to fire me because other employees failed to show up to work on time, to take on from…
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One of my subordinates' child passed away, how can I inform my team?

One of the people who reports to me lost their son in an accident over the weekend. She has a lot of colleagues that rely on her on a daily basis. She is somewhat of a project owner on a project that is set to go live before Thanksgiving. We have…
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Is it acceptable to collaborate with coworkers on a project outside work to prove something to our manager?

I think it's perfectly fine to work on a project with coworkers "just for fun" outside work as long as we're not on company time, and we're not using company resources. But our situation isn't playful as mentioned above. We are facing a situation…
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How to respond to people who overuse punctuation marks?

We all had that one email that contained a phrase similar to these examples: Where are my files?????????? Or: I am not sure this is a good idea!!!!!!!!! I normally want to point out one of the following things to the person sending such a…
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Team being on standby on weekends?

We are currently delivering an in house product with an in house technical team. I am acting as the product manager for it. This weekend, the product went down for a customer. Monday arrived and my CEO is upset, since nothing was done over the…
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Are such religious references typical for US-based companies or should I be worried?

I was shown a job ad at StackOverflow from a US-based company which had caught my eye. Now, I don't have any immediate plans to move to US, but I do check out opportunities from time to time. Besides, I have used software products developed by that…
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