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How should I react when a co-worker says his 3000 line method is optimized? Should I report it to my boss?

I have a co-worker who said his 3000 line method is the most optimized possible. How do I react professionally to that? Should I communicate this to the boss, who does not know anything about programming? Note that we are a small team of only three…
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Should I let friends know about a background check as a courtesy?

I started a new job that requires a background check for access to non-sensitive areas. The form wants to go back five years. Should I let my friends know that they may be contacted for my background check?
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How can I ask my manager if he is upset at me

I work as an software engineering intern in my free time and summers at a small startup. Management has consistently asked me to continue, giving me several raises. However, for some time my direct manager has been acting coldly towards me. For…
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Why do interviewers ask if I'm interviewing with other companies?

This seems to be a common question that is asked as a normal part of an interview. Can anyone speak to what the interviewer is really looking for when they ask this question? And is it best to simply be honest about whether you are/are not…
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How to handle being late

I hate being late and usually am early, though on occasion I still arrive late. This is embarrassing but today I had a large coffee before leaving for work, and I had to get off the bus to use the bathroom. As a result I was 10 minutes late but had…
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If a professional acquaintance asks you to forward their resume on to a hiring manager, how do you politely turn them down?

So a professional acquaintance that I've chatted with briefly only once or twice in the past few years asked me to forward her resume on to a hiring manager at my company. Though we are connected on Linkedin, I really don't know this person that…
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How to deal with persistent recruiter still contacting me after declining offer

So I recently declined an offer from a recruiter, it got to the final stage where offer was on the table but I said no. The company was big, salary was fantastic but I didn't want to work with the technology they were using as it was very niche. I…
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At age 25, is it still okay to wear dental braces to work?

I had braces as a young teen but I bent my retainers when we went on vacation one year. I had the old fashioned retainers that were pink and plastic with a metal bar connected to it. I am now 25, and I would like to get some of these 'invisible'…
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Is it unprofessional to decline being part of a promotional video?

I work in academia and do research in an applied field. A small group of people from our research group are soon travelling to the largest national convention to promote our research as close to all our research is done in collaboration with either…
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Told boss about racist remarks coworker made, but they don't want HR involved. What do I do?

I have a coworker who seems to make it a point to discuss religion/politics/everything most would deem unacceptable during work hours. The other day, he interrupted a conversation between myself and one of our managers to start a race conversation…
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How to deal with a co-worker who thinks I stole her promotion?

I was recently offered a position of managing 3 individual shops in a shopping mall. Before me, there were 3 other store managers, one for each shop. All three of them transferred or were fired, each for different reasons. Since then the assistant…
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Is it possible to work more than full-time for an employer?

I have a full-time job for my current employer and have been working here for 2 years. The problem is that I'm working a lot of hours, since I enjoy my profession a lot (I'm in software engineering/devops) and 40 hours of work is not enough for me.…
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How to handle it when someone drags in upper management to get you to solve a problem that they were the source of

So, I ran into an issue today. Generally, when I'm emailing someone to remind them that they've done something incorrectly, I limit the scope to them, their manager1, and my manager. I try to be courteous and not broadcast that they screwed up. I'm…
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Is there an etiquette for who goes in "CC" and who goes in "To" for emails?

I've noticed some of my colleagues seem to deliberately split up email recipients — some are in the "To" field and some are in the "CC" field. Is this a social cue whereby those CC'd aren't necessarily expected to reply?
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We are #1 in our industry. However because we aren't a hot startup anymore some workers leave. How to manage this?

We were a hot startup and, long story short, we've become a slow-growth (mature?) company being more or less #1 in our industry. However there are workers which are leaving our company. Asking them in one-on-one talks "why?" they answered (almost)…
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