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1:56 AM

Q: Repairing our broken windows: first intermission

We've been working on repairing our broken windows for a few weeks now. We've had three rounds of community review (results are posted on each week's post). We're seeing some good participation from the community -- editing, discussing, and voting. With that experience, before we continue we'd...

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enderland

1:23 PM

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Q: How much power does a 'project manager' have?

Consider a medium sized research group, say a dozen people or more. It's typical in certain fields to have a project manager that looks after finances and other admin tasks. Sometimes the person will have a background in that field, sometimes no relevant academic experience. I've come across som...

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this seems pretty poor at the moment...

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Myles

7:25 PM

A while back I saw a great motivational poster on workplace SE that was a painting of a civil war battle with something like "leadership is more than just telling people what to do". I've been looking for close to an hour but can't find it again. Can anyone help me find it again?

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jmort253

9:36 PM

Hi Nahkki, on posts that don't clearly have a clear, objectively asked question, they should be put on hold until they're clarified. This helps reduce speculation in answers. I suspect that may be the reason for the down votes and wanted to give you a heads up. See How to Ask for details, as it describes what we're looking for in questions, and what we can do as answerers to help clarify the question before we try to answer it. Hope this helps. — jmort253 ♦ 1 min ago

Emilio Gort

10:09 PM

Hello, What is best send the resume in word or pdf?

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jmac

11:39 PM

@EmilioGort Generally speaking, PDF, unless they specifically ask for it in Word format, in which case I would send both. Word can change how it appears depending on localization (language of the app/OS), fonts, etc. PDF won't do that, so you can be assured it looks like it does on your screen.

I closed this unilaterally:

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Q: How to deal with a friend sending BCC emails to the manager

How to deal with a Friend sending BCC Emails to the manager to put you in an embarrassing situation only. Is this the main role of BCC emails ?