Questions tagged [colleagues]
Questions regarding the people one works with. This includes questions about communication, teamwork, or other issues caused by ones co-workers.
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My colleague classmate forwarded message I sent to him to the class Whatsapp group [closed]
I have a colleague/ classmates. He left the class earlier and asked me to send him any additional information that the presenter may have said, which is new and a scope since we were going to write ...
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Co-worker backstabbing
The 3-way meeting got canceled by the coworker multiple times. So I had to meet my boss privately.
I initially asked the following question and I was wondering if you can give me some insights. link
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How to professionally tell colleagues on business trip their judgemental comments are unwelcome
I was recently on a business trip in the United States on behalf of my company. I am a manager and have been with my company for about 10 years.
I came home from a night social event at the bar with ...
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How should I respond to my peer requesting oversight for my admin role?
My colleague and I are both technical leads on sister projects. These projects share a repository, to which my colleague has the admin role but I do not. To properly perform my job I require the admin ...
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Boss gave me attitude for answering someone's sick call
Today, a coworker called to say she couldn't make it for her shift and since none of the bosses were around, I was the one who answered the phone (it sits next to our registers and is also used to ...
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Client complained to me about a colleague. Temporary pm is handling it. Should I bring it up with management?
I am on two teams simultaneously. On one team I have a colleague, "Bob" who is on the same level as I. Bob and I are in support roles for other teams in the organization and generally don't ...
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Deputy Undermining My Onboarding – Tips for Handling the Situation?
I recently started a new position as project lead. In the team, there’s a colleague who has been here for a year, covering part of the responsibilities for some projects and officially acting as my ...
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How do I deal with a coworker whose poor work quality is impacting my personal life and career growth?
I’m a Senior Frontend Engineer at a subsidiary of a major European grocery delivery company, and right now, So right now we are building a new version of our core product. We started this project over ...
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Feeling disrespected by colleagues
I’m part of a team of six, including our lead and one new hire. While we primarily work independently, we collaborate regularly throughout the week. It’s a data analysis role, and we’re all ...
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How to deal with a collegue that is not programming, but studying carefully the code of others? [closed]
I have a collegue in my team that produces minimal amount of code and only if it is related to the core domain of the application we are developing. I have observed him that he is using all of his ...
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Am I supposed to slow down my development speed when I am too good for my team? [closed]
First a little bit of a background. I have aways been a pretty decent developer with 5 digit reputation on stackoverflow in my real profile :D On top of that I was a successful olympic competitor in ...
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Relationship with peers while working remotely from home [closed]
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We all work remotely, across the globe, in different timezones, languages, mindsets, etc. Everyone has tight deadlines so we can't text/meet/zoom-meet without any reason. Also, we are ...
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I'm getting silent treatment as everyone believes I took leaves which angered management and now leave policy has changed
I'm a novice at professional life, as a 24 years old CSE fresher from Bharat (India), I joined a small France based company operating in India, with no more than 30 employee in my office.
I informed ...
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How to resolve a problem involved due to colleague lecturer trying to slander and obstruct work
This is regarding an issue at a university. This university offers computer science and software engineering degrees, and the staff also consists of many software engineering graduates. I'm a ...
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Navigating My Farewell: Insights for Managing My Exit [closed]
I’ve been with my company for several years and recently resigned. Over the past year, I’ve felt demotivated, especially after being passed over for a promotion.
Now, my final digital meeting is ...
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Should I be worried?
I recently started a job in staffing and got transitioned to nights. I worked a few weeks and then I was hit with meeting request from my manager. The meeting was for Monday (today), in the meeting ...
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How would you interpret feedback that you are "too good"
How would you interpret the following feedback and how can I find out what stands behind it? I am a tech lead to the project and there is a newly assigned team lead. We were having some agile coaching ...
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Can my employer require me to wear a dirty uniform and refuse to provide additional shirts? [closed]
I've been working at my current job for six months. Initially, I was told I could wear whatever I wanted as long as I had closed-toe shoes. Recently, my employer provided me with one work shirt, a ...
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How should I explain why it took my so long to get this stage?
I took an extra year to finish my degree due to severe mental health challenges, which also caused me to leave a prestigious graduate scheme. Antidepressants made me ill when I withdrew from them, and ...
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Should a single person handle communication between team and external entities?
We are a development team dealing with highly technical and critical for society application that has frequent communication with external companies and organizations. Are there any best or common ...
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Colleague reviews a same pull request several times instead of once
A senior colleague occasionally reviews some of my pull requests*.
What often happens is: He request changes. I pull them in or reject them after discussing, no problem up to this point. But then it ...
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My liar co-worker negatively projecting my image
I am in IT. I use virtual machine. When mute the laptop, on virtual machine it does not get muted. First time I had checked with my co-worker, asked her if she can hear, she said no it is muted. ...
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Camera on me and my computer screen all day [closed]
I work in marketing for a very small business. I also sit at the front desk and deal with walk ins. Every other employee has an office with a door. Since I am up front the camera that is posted is on ...
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How can I handle an ambitious colleague, promoted ahead of me, that is self-serving and not that great at his job?
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One of my colleagues joined my company a year after me, on the same level as I was. He and I initially had a good working relationship, though his code quality is sometimes substandard. ...
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How to deal with colleagues making fun of my personal life in office? [closed]
30M here from India. So, I have these 4 colleagues say A, B, C and D in my team. One mistake I did was to tell them about some stories of my personal life. I was seeing 2 girls (at different times) in ...
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How do I stay sane when not only do I have too much idle time at work and unwanted drop-by visits from fellow workers? [closed]
I am not busy enough at work , I have talked to boss and take on work whenever he can find it but still a lot of slow days - that’s bad enough. But I work in an open foyer area so employees are ...
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How to politely tell to a colleague to be more specific?
I got an email from a colleague from another branch asking for help.
The email goes more or less like this:
Hi everybody,
I’m gonna loop the team who has a bit more experience with this XYZ thing.
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What to do when managment interrupts a meeting and puts you down infront of everyone
I have the following situation. I am techlead of a team developing and maintaining platform for data exchange in and out of the organization. I am also a consultant. I have a team lead and I also have ...
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An older female colleague wishes to change me
For the last 2 months, I have been working as an intern as the youngest member of the team. I would describe myself as gentle, kind, soft-spoken, introverted and helpful. However I tend to be a little ...
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Awkward Situation at Work - Need Advice on handling my senior who has grudges against me
My workplace offered a program where they sold old laptops at a very low price through a lottery system. There weren't enough laptops for everyone, so it was a lucky draw.
Initially, I wasn't ...
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If your coworkers do not tell you that your hair is messed up, could this be a sign that they do not like you?
Over the years, there were times when it was very windy out and when I walked into my workplace from the parking lot, my hair was very messed up, such that my hair was pointed in different directions ...
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Encouraged to ask certain employee for help
I got a new manager just beginning of this year and he replacing my old boss who got promoted to a different department in same company. So I still talk to my old boss but he is no longer my manager. ...
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How to deal with colleague after argument?
My colleague and I have been working closely on a project and always had a good working relationship.
However, recently my colleague was affected by some personal problems and the personal issue ...
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Is pair programming a team lead or a tech lead decision?
I am a tech lead in a team. I was doing a lot of the team lead work because there was no team lead up to now. The team has mixed feelings about pair programming. The main reason for this is that some ...
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Workplace Colleague making Personal Comments
It’s been a while since i started working at a company where this one guy says personal comments about me and teases in front of other people. Here are some examples:
In the past, in front of other ...
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Is team retrospective overriding team lead and tech lead
I have the following question. My team consists of tech lead that has been driving also the development process and a newly assigned team lead. The tech lead is reporting not to the team lead but to ...
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Started new role in company, coworker believes they are my boss but they are not
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I've been with my company for five years and have the most seniority (seniority doesn't really mean much other than scheduling shifts and general knowledge). I offset my regular full-time ...
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Dismissive and uncommunicative coworker when there are clear signs of tension
I have worked with a more junior coworker for some time and recently there has been both degradation in the quality of communication between he and me (curt answers, rude interruptions) and uptick in ...
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Should I come out as a neurodivergent? [closed]
after two of my children came with a combination of neurodivergent traits and were diagnosed with a range of stuff like ADHD, autism, and Tourette. I decided on my own to undergo a psychiatric ...
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How to deal with a possibly autistic colleague that seems to be fixated on me
At the moment I (F) have a colleague (M) that works now for 5 months at my workplace.
At the beginning naturally like everyone else you don't know someone yet and need time to get to know one another. ...
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A colleague is answering question my colleagues are asking me
I am tech lead of a project and I have one senior member, a smart guy. He does not sit immediately next to my desk, but it is an open office, so he is a couple of meters away.
I am not very fast in ...
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Dealing with a coworker who asks me to stay late
A coworker routinely asks me to stay late and help him close. He does this when I’m a mid shifter and sometimes when I open. He already got in trouble for staying late while he is closing; we have to ...
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Am I in my rights to ask a colleague to not take notes on everything I say outside a meeting? [closed]
I'm a software engineer with 20+ years of experience. I am used to people taking notes in meetings and outside meetings and I have been more or less fine with that. I have a new colleague who ...
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How to handle a colleague who spends hours every day chatting about personal/home projects with me and other teammates
A colleague from a different team often spends hours discussing his personal projects with us during work hours. These projects, which are somewhat related to our field, become a frequent topic of ...
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terrible recruitment should/how I complain [closed]
I am a techlead to a rather complex technical(not many functional requirements, predominantly non functional) backend application. The project is very complex with regards of the people working on it:
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Coworker repeating what I say but with different words
I am communicating in non-english language, one not native to me. I have this super analytical guy in the team as a coworker and I keep noticing that when I say something, analyze a problem, or ...
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Saying no to doing my coworker's task on his day off
A coworker and I have a task that we take turns running. If we have a day off we can ask someone else to do the task. He wants me to do it next weekend since he usually works but he has a day off. Can ...
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Mumbling coworker [closed]
I have a coworker who constantly mumbles under his breath impolite things about me or other coworkers. I find it very rude, because others can clearly hear him, although it's possible he is unaware ...
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How to address a coworker's undermining behavior that affects my performance?
I work as an engineer for a large company in the US and am facing challenges with a co-worker who exhibits offensive behavior towards me. We are part of a three-person core team within a larger group, ...
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My Product Manager Traveling To My City, Should I Meet Her In Person?
I've been working remotely for a year now for this company. On our daily meeting, my PM said she will travel to my country tomorrow.
Is it okay if I reach out to her and ask if I can treat her meal ...
