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2:50 AM

Q: Why is this question asking about dealing with the after math of office harrasment being downvoted?

Is it best to move on after being harassed at work? Clearly the OP is an emotionally frazzled state, but I think The Workplace as a culture doesn't appreciate that this is actually a normal course of events for working in an office environments. People are going to have inter-personal and intra...

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4:16 AM

Q: Is "advice on what to do" the same as "primarily opinion-based"?

Recently I've found myself looking at questions that have a few close votes for "off-topic: advice on what to do", and I find myself wondering if that close reason is really helping. The text is: Questions asking for advice on what to do are not practical answerable questions (e.g. "what job...

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Scimonster

Hi there, people of The Workplace. I posted my first question a couple days ago which has since gone hot, but i feel that it is improperly tagged, or perhaps missing a tag. Could someone just take a look and see if there are any more appropriate tags? Thanks.

Q: Lost track of how many sessions I tutored - what should I do?

I was paid in advance to do 10 sessions of tutoring, once a week. Unfortunately, I did not think to keep track of how many times it actually happened, as there were some weeks where it didn't work out. (I'm a teenager taking pretty much my first job. Since I noticed, I have been keeping track.) L...

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Traubenfuchs

12:20 PM

Questions about career advice are regularly posted on workplace.stackechange. They are usually quickly put on hold for being "Questions asking for advice on what to do" like "what job should I take?" or "what skills should I learn?". That is why I created a stackexchange proposal for questions just like that. I'd be happy if like minded workplace users would follow and promote the proposal. area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/87587/career-advice

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enderland

1:27 PM

@Traubenfuchs I was going to suggest chat is a good place to do that

@Scimonster I added a few tags

enderland

1:41 PM

@someone this should let you chat in here

if not let me know (ping me on your question)

Scimonster

1:57 PM

@enderland Thanks. I think billing is the one i was really looking for.

enderland

@Scimonster no problem. I am normally really bad about tags here...

Monica Cellio

2:19 PM

@Scimonster if it makes you feel any better, I didn't know we had a billing tag either.

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Trickylastname

4:38 PM

@Traubenfuchs IDK. This kind of questions depends on many, many things, like country, culture, state/province, economics... For example, someone asking "should I accept Company A offer?" by someone in the US may not be useful for someone in LatAm, as Company A can be paradise in the US but hell in LatAm.

enderland

@Trickylastname yeah, or because of X, Y, Z it is a [bad, good, great, terrible, etc] idea

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8:31 PM

Q: How does the community feel about removing some community wikis?

We have a lot of answers and questions which for various reasons became community wiki over the years (variety of reasons). From here: Guidelines for un-Wikiing And that's still the case: generally-speaking, moderators will cheerfully remove CW status on posts as long as... ...