Questions tagged [communication]
Questions about addressing difficult or complicated communication issues in the workplace. Communication in the workplace may take place in many forms (email, phone, face-to-face, IM) and between a variety of parties (coworkers, managers, reports, clients).
2,897 questions
Score of 13
5 answers
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Client frequently paying late. Manager claiming I make mistakes but doesn't provide specifics
I work for a small managed service provider. The owner is almost always late paying my invoices and I usually remind him a couple times. In addition to the invoices, he requested I fill out time ...
Score of 12
4 answers
3166 views
Asking for more notice from management for visits to clients
I work for a small MSP. Most of the work can be done from home but sometimes my boss asks me to go to client sites. Usually I get no notice about this. I'm basically told to go right away. If it was ...
Score of 20
6 answers
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How to save face when forced to NOT help?
I'm a junior IT Operations engineer on a medium size company.
The scenario:
Person A from Team A was texting me about a issue his team encountered when using an internal software. He said that he ...
Score of 8
2 answers
3885 views
How can I professionally disagree with feedback about my performance after my credibility has been questioned?
I’m a developer, and recently my team lead told me that I had lied about testing some code. In reality, I had tested it, but I later realised I had accidentally shared the wrong code snippet, which ...
Score of -2
1 answer
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I have been disrespected; is this actionable discrimination? [closed]
I work a job housekeeping all workers came in the room and attacked me yesterday I’ve been made fun of ands it’s disrespectful please help
Score of 28
8 answers
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What actions can I take as a junior developer to solve long review delays?
I am a junior developer at a small company with around seven developers in total. We have recently (3 months ago) introduced a new process where all code changes are supposed to be properly reviewed ...
Score of 3
5 answers
1950 views
How I can communicate that I need to see the code through IDE instead of screen sharing?
In my work I need sometimes to see the code in order to debug or give a second opinion. But I find it hard to see it through a screen share instead of IDE. Usually is done in cases I am asked for ...
Score of 4
4 answers
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Jokes in company documents
The company I work for has started a series of strategy meetings to discuss company growth. Each department was asked to describe their current strategy, to be published internally to all staff.
The ...
Score of 0
3 answers
952 views
How should I handle uneven project visibility and recognition within a team of project managers?
I’m a project manager in a team of PMs plus one team lead. Everyone has their own projects and several of us are new to the team. We were all hired as project managers, have roughly comparable ...
Score of 0
3 answers
667 views
Collaborating with management when the company's undetailed directives seem irrational?
Background
I'm an I.T. guy (software architect and technical expert, "firefighter of incidents") who works best with:
explanations and big picture
When having an incident to handle, rather ...
Score of 15
7 answers
6766 views
Lead rudely demands fixing alleged error on weekend
I'm a developer in a software development company. I work here for about a year and a half.
Today, Sunday, is an important deployment of our product. They chose almost the latest version which wasn't ...
Score of 27
10 answers
9353 views
My superiors want me to pretend in front of my subordinates that I support a company policy I disagree with. How do I handle this instruction?
I am the leader (say, level 3) of a small team of engineers (level 4), one of many in our project.
A couple of months ago, our management (level 1), together with HR, has announced plans for a new ...
Score of 15
11 answers
9694 views
CEO told staff to just leave if we have concerns and trust issues with leadership - what now?
I work for a small UK company and have done for 4 years. There's been a lot of upheaval recently, restructuring, 3 rounds of redundancies in just over 2 years, and very mixed messaging from leadership ...
Score of 3
5 answers
1178 views
Still in my probation period — upcoming feedback meeting. Can I give honest feedback or better stay cautious?
I’m still in my probation period at my new job and it’s quite easy for the employer to terminate the contract during this time (after that, it becomes much harder).
My first feedback meeting is coming ...
Score of 0
2 answers
991 views
Advice on handling communication
I am facing a situation at work and would appreciate advice on how to handle it professionally.
I completed a task that required coordination for a production deployment and communicated with the ...