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DarkCygnus

3:31 AM

Making the most of your one-on-one with your manager or other leadership

Teresa Dietrich on October 27, 2020

As many offices go fully remote, learning how to approach key meetings with your manager can pay big dividends.

Huh... talking about Workplace Stuff over the SO Blog...

Whoa, another

Socializing with co-workers while social distancing

Ryan Donovan on April 13, 2020

As we increase our social distancing efforts and have fewer people around us, building connections and socializing becomes ever more important for our mental health. We spend a lot of time at work and a decreasing amount of time socializing outside of it, so turning some of that work time into a social time can serve two purposes. For it to be effective, though, you can’t just push socializing initiatives alone.

Socializing with coworkers... interesting...

I kinda feel that this should be in some sort of workplace.blog site

7 hours later…

motosubatsu

10:32 AM

@DarkCygnus or at the very least a link pointing readers to TWP, seems like a missed opportunity

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Kaz

12:15 PM

I love that the top 2 answers to this question are "A" and "not A", they're both the same score, and I felt good upvoting both of them.

Q: How big can a town get before everyone stops knowing everyone else?

In small towns, people often say that everyone knows everyone. While probably not literally true (for all but the smallest towns), the rate of interaction between members of the town is still high enough to create this perception. The two main variables I can think of are the population density o...

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Kaz

6:16 PM

@Old_Lamplighter You’ll enjoy this one.

Q: Departing senior engineer refuses to introduce replacement to open source community/peers

We have a senior, very capable (i.e. 5x) engineer, "Gust", who has served his notice (4 weeks), and will be leaving. Our company likes to "test" people in their new roles when being promoted for up to 6 months before we officially promote them. Due to incompetence by Gust's former manager, Gust w...