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How can I respond to coffees offered by coworkers when I'm not on permanent staff?

I work in Italy. In my office (200-300 people), there are several coffee machines that work either by using coins or by using a pre-credited magnetic key. These machines don't give back the eventual change, so it is pretty common to use magnetic…
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If my employer is planning a big project around me, should I tell them I'm looking for a new job?

I've been in meetings all week with my small company's owners, planning a big project for which I am a critical resource. However, meanwhile I'm looking for a job. My company has pretty low turnover and has a hard time hiring people so I know…
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How do I convince my employer to take my mention of resignation seriously?

I've had huge work life balance issues with my boss over the past year or so, as noted in previous posts. For background, it's a small company and I'm the only employee. Finally, after giving a few points and ultimatums about 6 months ago, nothing…
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Can it be seen as negative having applied for a job posting late at night?

Given my current schedule (including work) I am often up very late at night. I am looking for a new job and was wondering, does it look bad if a employer receives an application form at 3am or sometime where most people are sleeping? I am looking…
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I'm on a PIP but really need this job. Should I ask for a lower salary?

I am a 55 years old programmer. In my career I worked with too many technologies. Jack of all trades master of none, as they say. My brain is filled up to the brim and new technologies get harder to learn. In my last company I started as developer…
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How can a shift manager discipline an employee when that employee is the owner's daughter?

After being unemployed for 24 weeks, a good friend of mine recently became a shift manager at a local pizza shop. As a father of three kids with two enrolled in private college, he's thrilled to be working again. He's a foodie, and he loves their…
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I am the replacement for my friend, should I warn him in advance?

My friend casually mentioned that there is a another position at the company opened up and I'd be good for it. I thought it was a great idea and went straight to boss about it. He thought it was great timing, and literally the entire management got…
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Arguments for giving candidates the salary they want - without haggling

I'm responsible for building a software development team in my company. Once this team is ready I'll have to manage it and will be held responsible for its performance. One point of arguing we have with my bosses is that most of the time, I tend to…
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How do you deal with employees' unrealistic pay expectations?

I have someone who came into an entry level trial position. They do not (yet) have the normal qualifications expected for the job, though they are working on this. We put them through a probation period to see how they got on and we were happy there…
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Tracking software monitoring our activity to the minute. Expected to work 8 hours straight. What can we do?

A few months ago, the management implemented a tracking software on our computers, such that it counts time only when a certain app we are working on is open and we are active on it. This means that you could be sitting at your computer doing…
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How do I deal with an unproductive colleague in a small company?

I am an employee in a small company (under 30 people). I have a colleague who is basically not really productive. We've been at the company for about the same amount of time, and we both joined while the company was very young (~5 people). He…
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Is it professional to make lack of feedback visible?

Background information: My team is tasked with providing functional requirements and use cases to another team in the same organization. The other team is in charge of implementing the software. I am the liaison with the other team. Last summer,…
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Should I have concern for my previous workplace, when considering a new job?

I currently work for a medium-large (~500 employees) Italian company as a Linux developer. I work in a team of 8 people, most of them are really awesome and really friendly, the day life is good and so is the comfort that the company offers. To…
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How do I explain being unemployed for nearly two years due to untreated depression

For the first three years of my career, I was always employed (internship and one full-time job). Then, after I got laid off because the last company I worked for went under, I couldn't motivate myself to look for work for one year and six months.…
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How can I convince my manager that we need to reduce technical debt?

I work as a developer on a 15-year-old software product, which has been continuously under development for all that time. The code base is enormous. We have over 500mb of code, which I suspect is multiple millions of lines of code. That is not…
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