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We have a new colleague in our team and she's muslim. Technically she's my subordinate, so I want to avoid as many pitfalls as possible.
What are things one needs to know in this context? Prayer-related details, food/drink choices we should/shouldn't offer, even behaviour related things?
Please...
I've recently come to a work place where people use a lot of useless business lingo and generally inflate communications with long unproductive fluff. I frequently find myself nodding and hoping they get to the point.
Typically, we'd be sitting there with our team doing our thing when a certain ...
I am managing a team of 10+ knowledge workers (developers, testers, technical support, no sales person).
There are employees in my team who are extremely talented, who can consistently provide better technical support to clients, develop better features, and whose understanding of the software i...
Here's a problem: there's a cubicle farm office where most of people don't need to use phone much during their workday and silence would be great for productivity. Yet sometimes people will have private calls. often unplanned, and there's a need to organize some place where they could have such c...
When you originally asked in chat, I pointed you to this question:
What is the difference between freelancer and contractor?
This question was upvoted and had useful answers, so I thought that asking a similar question about switching from full-time salaried employee to contractor would be good...
I have worked for 2 years at a government contractor on a number of classified projects. I am now in the hunt for a new job, but I am running into a significant problem: I can't answer questions about my previous work experience, because it is mostly classified, and the unclassified stuff is wil...
I just want to see your insight about my problem. I am an IT graduate. I have some experience in software development. But now that Im in a foreign country finding IT jobs is very difficult than it was on my home country. They disregard my experience in software development and I havent been out ...
Here is the situation. One of the companies I applied for as a software developer asked for a complex and "thorough" test. I agreed to it, but I noticed that I was supposed to add a module to their in-production services that automated certain e-mail notification based on some filters. I'm certai...
I'm a software developer with 5 years experience over 3 companies. Within the last year a junior (brand new to the industry) has started at my current employer.
I believe he is an excellent developer, who always delivers and is skilled as solving complex problems. However I'm slightly concerned...
For more control over incompetent migrations (see example complaints in posts tagged migration-rejection), would it make sense to try a new kind review? I would call it
suggested migrations queue
Located at target site, it would contain a list of questions flagged / voted for migration. Target ...
What are differences between quantitative analyst and data scientist in IT companies? Both seem to deal with data, requiring statistics and programming.
That migrated question was terrible, it should have been closed as "too localized".
I don't think it was wrongly migrated, I think it never should have been migrated at all. What's the first rule of fight club question migration?
Never. Migrate. Crap.
Relevant meta.webmasters discussion:
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Several of my coworkers who have moved to another company all have kept quiet about what company exactly they are going to. They put in their 2 weeks notices, and for the most part, everyone around knew that, except where they were going to work. Not sure if this simply a trend here at my workpla...
I've noticed that many people don't reveal where they are going until their last day at work. Some of them don't reveal it until they actually join the new place.
What is the reason people don't reveal their future employer before actually starting to work there? Is there a risk in revealing yo...
I recently got a new job at a firm that is paying me only slightly higher but the work is going to be much better. As such, I have resigned from my current job and the exit process has started.
However, I am being asked all sorts of questions by senior management and the HR about my new job like...
Today, my manager introduced me to an employee who's visiting us from a different geographical location. The person is visiting our office for 2 weeks. I don't know anything about him and I don't have any working relationship with him either. Being an non-native English speaker, I couldn't think ...
