The Water Cooler

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Q: I've discovered that our DBA is abusing his position. What do I do?

I'm a game developer working on a fairly well known MMORPG in where I live. Recently, I've accidentally discovered that our DBA is banning players and forging player chat logs on his accord. For what reason, I do not know why. The thing is, I don't have any conclusive evidence to present, and I'...

What's your question? How to report the person? Whether to do anything? It's not clear what you are actually trying to accomplish here other than looking for just soliciting opinions on what to do. — enderland 9 hours ago

CMW

@enderland is asking for opinions/options on what to do in this context out of scope?

Sure, that whole question could be re-worded to be way more general-purpose, but the core question would still be 'What can one do in a situation like that?'

jmac

2:13 PM

If someone doesn't start a meta post on this answer/comments, I will tomorrow:

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A: How should I handle a supposed conflict of interest of my coworker?

I will create a more 'physical world' example to show how dangerous this is. Imagine that you have a maintenance depot manager at a railroad 'farming out' work to a shop he runs on the side on the other side of town. Given that he 'signs the checks' the people in rest of the company have no idea...

Implying that people are conducting criminal acts on a Q&A site is really well beyond our scope

And so is racism...

Chad

2:43 PM

@CMW yes

@jmac I have given up hope that anything will be done about the lack of any attempt at conforming to SE standards and expectations in answers.

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Q: How can I adapt to the expectations during my internship to become more productive?

I'm doing a graphic design internship and have been working hard, writing down everything she wants me to find(I need to find pictures to go with her site). I showed my work to another girl who is designing the website and she said she liked it a lot, but when I showed them my intern leader she s...

internship

I made a change in this question to change it from asking what to do, to focusing on a goal of being productive since that seems to be the big complaint of the op for why he feels the internship is not successful.

enderland

3:14 PM

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Q: How should I handle a supposed conflict of interest of my coworker?

I am a senior software engineer in a small private company of about 55 employees. There is a manager here of the EE group who at every possible chance asks the CEO for me and my colleague to share our source code with him for his "review". He has also suggested to aid us by outsourcing some softw...

politics conflict

CMW

@Chad ok

CMW

3:50 PM

@Chad I'm wondering how asking about what to do in a situation where one can't seem to meet the expectations put into them during internship is different from asking about what to do in a situation where one finds a colleague abuses their position

enderland

4:01 PM

damnit I hate the bus factor

CMW

4:34 PM

@enderland Time lost because of missed busses?

enderland

@CMW no I hate that I can hardly feel like I can leave my current position b/c I'm the only implementation person so if I leave stuff won't finish

CMW

@enderland Oh. Yeah that feeling sucks

And nobody cares that you intend to leave and leave a gap?

enderland

I'm not sure honestly, I'm in a weird developmental program which is way less defined than most normal positions

CMW

I was in a position like that a couple years ago. Basically one of three people to really understand the software we were working on with a workload enough for 6 or 7. When I decided I wanted to leave I mentioned it to a lot of people, informally, a couple of times, but it took me a whole year to officially announce that I'm going to leave, because of that same feeling. Leaving something unfinished, letting the team down, etc.

Some time after I left, I realized that it was really true that people didn't care. To them (the big heads) I was just work force. They didn't even realize they were in trouble until early this year when even the last of the original dev team left that team

enderland

4:56 PM

@CMW well in this case I think my direct manager would care because we are dramatically changing his project workflow

though I suspect you are right. I am probably over exaggerating how important my project and my boss thinks I am

CMW

5:13 PM

Oh, I didn't mean to say that, but to point out, that you can't tie yourself down, over care for a project that those responsible for it care less about than you.

enderland

I have the annoying problem of taking on responsibility for things too. kinda a bummer sometimes when you takeon responsibility and then are put in a place you have to choose to give it up :)

CMW

true

Chad

8:53 PM

@CMW A better analog for that question would be "What do I need to know before I talk with my manager/HR about this situation". What should/can I do is bad we cant make decisions for you or lay out all of your options because they are infinate. We can tell you how to cross the goal line but you need to tell us where the goal line is

Jim G.

9:41 PM

workplace.stackexchange.com/a/6808/437

^^^ What? You don't like "This is what I would do..." answers? ;)

enderland

10:24 PM

@JimG. are you asking me?

jmac

11:45 PM

I just had a user blow up at me for deleting a :) from an answer. Wow. Comment is gone due to some harsh language, but I am really confused right now.

enderland

@jmac :)

jmac

Flag! Flag! Flag!

All the answers to this question are legal-based:

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Q: How should I handle a conflict of interest of a coworker?

I am a senior software engineer in a small private company of about 55 employees. There is a manager here of the EE group who at every possible chance asks the CEO for me and my colleague to share our source code with him for his "review". He has also suggested to aid us by outsourcing some softw...

politics conflict

pretty sure it should be closed or edited heavily.

enderland

yeah I dont know why some of those are upvoted eitehr

jmac

Insight appreciated:

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Q: Should we judge the ethics of a third party's behavior on the basis of a question?

This question was posted a couple days ago: How should I handle a conflict of interest of a coworker? Three of four answers stop just short of saying the CEO is a criminal: MrFox's answer if the CEO is getting some sort of kickbacks for spending the corporation's money in a certain way, th...

discussion on-topic-definition flagging legal-questions

Confused by this edit comment "make longer than 400 characters to prevent spam attacks"

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