Questions tagged [conflict-resolution]
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Blamed by coworkers in meeting: Any pitfalls if I send an email with my side of the story?
Background
I am a relatively new employee at my current company. We are a small department and had a “department meeting” to discuss issues and suggestions.
What Happened
The employee who spoke first ...
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Is it okay to not like some team members in a team?
I have worked in 2-3 companies so far. Although, as of now, I have had less stress, but, in any team, there is at least 1 team member, whom I don't like.
In my first one - the team lead. He used to ...
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My boss is going to retire [closed]
My boss shared with me about a month ago that he will be retired by the end of this year. He also mentioned in his 1 on 1 formal announcement that his replacement for this kind of position (VP) ...
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How to request for a better seat in the institute in a good way
I joined to work in an institute. This institute has three rented buildings, say A,B and C. Sometimes we have to move among them to complete tasks.
The washroom facilities of C are not that good but ...
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How can I address my colleague communicating with us via ChatGPT?
I have a colleague (who is a director, as am I), who absolutely loves LLMs. SO much so, that they are now communicating with me and the rest of the team via ChatGPT. They have not openly admitted it, ...
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How can I push back on my co-worker's changes that I disagree with?
I'm co-founding a business with 2 other people, and no employees. One of them is another experienced software engineer like me, and the third can code but is much less experienced. Unfortunately, I've ...
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Advice needed: Team needs developers, but company isn't posting jobs
I'm facing a challenging situation at work and need advice on professional conduct:
Manager requested 5+ developers from the board
Company has no job ads on any platform
Manager and team agree: 3+ ...
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How do we handle a situation when manager deliberately wants to spoil your hard work
my manager ; seems to be technical but having superiority complex in his nature. now he trying to pause my PR and gives un necessary comments and not once but once i fixed the code and then comment on ...
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Approach Sales Manager about fake reference list
I work for a manufacturing company (in EU), and it has come to my attention that the Sales Manager issued a reference list for a project on which I worked as a Senior Engineer. Upon review, I ...
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Seeking Guidance on Managing Workplace Dynamics - Narcisitic employee [closed]
I hired a team member two years ago in offshore, who, unfortunately, exhibits traits associated with covert narcissism.
In my team we are only TWO people , me and narcistic.
The workplace has become ...
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How do I stand up for myself against my manager while still taking accountability for my mistake?
As with a lot of workplaces, the work we do at my company is very much a team effort.
I was assigned to semi-lead a cross-team project with one other team. I say semi-lead because while I was the one ...
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As a proxy Line Manager, how do I manage performance? Have I overreached and how should I recover? [closed]
I am the Scrum Master of a development team of about 4 people. The role is not a pure Scrum Mater role but rather it encompasses Scrum Master, Leader of the Team and being a proxy for their line ...
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Challenge: As a programmer, I face the dilemma of being asked by my boss to provide market direction without specific guidance
First, let me introduce the situation of the company as background information that will help understand the difficulties I am facing. Our company is an internet technology company with two projects: ...
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My boss has unfair attitude to my colleague
I work in R&D company. I have a colleague (name him B) who was given a relatively hard and tedious task with somewhat unclear requirements. He was doing his best to accomplish it, even working on ...
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How should you deal with a project manager who tries to have it his way even when it's against the company best interest?
How should you deal with a project manager who tries to have it his way even when it's against the company best interests? I am not sure if I am crazy, but I had this project manager argue against me ...
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