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Impact of mentioning in an interview that the cause of leaving the previous job is a significant change in management?
It is well known that during a job interview, one should not rant against the previous employer when asked the question why the candidate left the previous job. There are plenty of questions and answers on this very site about it.
However, if one…
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In a family business, do I refer to people by their name or by how they're related to the person I'm speaking to?
When speaking with a boss/manager's son, should I say:
Your father requested so and so.
or rather:
Mr. Doe requested so and so
I only have a professional relationship with the son. We don't chit-chat.
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How to deal with colleague that starts arguments?
The situation: My colleague (let's call him Joe) and I are department heads at a small startup (different departments). I have a lot more experience in my area. We are friends, and we work closely together, but lately have been having some pretty…
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Employer has my signature on a blank form. Is this allowed?
In the province of British Columbia, in Canada, we have many forms to get things ordered or to move along. One form I am responsible for signing and giving the yay-nay on has been copied with all the fields blanked out, except my signature.
The…
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Does my boss have any say on when my team should take their lunch breaks?
I'm a project manager working for a startup.
Since I've been here, we've never had a set time for lunch, and just taken our breaks at whatever time we wished, for one hour.
Our boss (the CEO) decided today, in a meeting privately with me, to make…
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What do I say to my manager if he asked me about a colleague's raise?
So my boss asked me to come to his office to take my opinion about a raise that my colleague asked for earlier. This colleague started only months ago but he proved that he is very good at it. Took big bugs and fixed it then started improving the…
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Ex-employer is using fake accounts with my name
I have recently switched my job and joined new company. But I seeing that my ex-employer is using fake accounts (mostly social media profiles such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Xing and many others) with my name and other personal details.
What are some…
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How can I deal with feeling overwhelmed as a new developer in a new position?
I'm 3 weeks into my first job after graduating at a web development company.
I feel like I need help most of the time with the most trivial things and that I'm using up more of the other developers' time than it would take for them to fix it. The…
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How do you figure out if you're on a Death March?
So I've been working for a company a bit over 2 years.
The company has always been small. We lost a guy 6 months ago to a new job, and I expected that we were going to hire a replacement for him, but this hasn't happened.
Lately, say the past two…
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How do I resign without burning bridges when I'm a critical staff member?
I work as an engineer at a startup technology company in the United States, and for several reasons, such as:
A culture of working more than 8 hours a day.
A loud "open office" environment and a culture of interruptions.
A pay cut from my previous…
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Why do salaries of software engineers reach a peak beyond which they no longer increase with experience in Germany?
I'm a recent computer science (CS) master graduate living in Germany. Now I'm starting to think about my long-term career path and looking for jobs in Germany. I'm proficient in Java and data mining (I wrote my thesis on a data mining topic).
After…
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How do I maintain a work-life balance when company culture tends towards frequent overtime?
I usually don't mind working overtime (no additional compensation) because I enjoy my work.
However, it does eventually grate on me. I've enjoyed a minimum of overtime in the past few months but know it's going to be picking up again soon.
When…
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How to act when coworker brings an infant to visit the office?
It's happened several times at several offices that someone brings their baby into work. It's a social thing where the manager wants people to see his baby and introduce his wife to the office. Usually the baby hangs around for 10 minutes before the…
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How should I handle refusing to sign a document that may indicate that I plan to leave soon?
My company, after being reluctant to send employees on training, finally offered us a training course. The course is expensive and overseas.
If we want to attend we have to sign a document that states that if we leave the company in the following 12…
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How to politely communicate that I really can learn well only if I do it myself?
I'm a junior developer. My tech lead is a very smart person.
When I go to him to seek for help on a problem, he usually finds a solution very quickly (he designed the whole system). The problem is that after he finds the solution, he tends to…
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