You just need to own your own professionalism. Approach your boss in the proper setting, in a quiet room or private area depending on layout. Present him with your written two weeks notice and thank him/her for the opportunity of working in your current place of employ. I'd mention factual rea...

The main problem with the last two comments is that one is passive aggressive and the other is sarcastic. "Ever hear of Facebook?" When reading it, you can almost hear the sarcastic tone. What it actually sounds like is this: "Ever hear of Facebook, stupid? Here's a good suggestion ...

Your manager was annoyed. This tells you that your manager does not like you switching seats, for whatever reason behind it. Instead of visibly being annoyed, he should have taken action and told you to move back to the place you were originally assigned. You say that your company set up assigne...

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I actually have a slightly different opinion of what "hot" questions are good for: entertainment. When I'm bored, tired of doing actual work or waiting for something to finish running, they're almost always good for a quick - and ideally informative - diversion. This is what I've always used the ...

I've been made an offer to join a company that is the process of being acquired. Is there anything I need to ask or consider during my negotiation process based on the fact that they probably will soon be own by another company?

I work for a small company (me, my boss, and a third guy, but he only helps us sometimes) in a relatively small town where I work for half, or 3/5, of the money which I could earn in the capital. It's not much but because I live at home it's not the biggest problem. There was a 9 month project w...

I started working at my current company as a Software Engineer about 2 years ago. When I received my offer, it was $5k less than what was agreed to during my interview and non-negotiable, However I was desperate to get out from my previous job and accepted it. My base salary was 50k when I starte...

Several months ago, our small company (around 20 people), hired a marketing manager (which is a new position within this company, he doesn't actually have any marketers to manage). It was not long after this time that I would use the toilet in one of our offices, and discover that someone had de...

I never feel comfortable calling myself an "expert" in any skill on the resume, because obviously I don't know everything on any topic. I know nobody knows everything, but I still have this fear that if I am not able to answer a handful of questions on the skill in which I am an "expert", it woul...

Are you the hysterical French colleague of my Norwegian acquaintance?

We have something along these lines in the hopper to test in the next few weeks. Sorry, I totally misunderstood the question. We're going to try some algorithm changes to the hot network questions which will try to guess which sites you like and don't like, and give you more of the sites that y...

AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for Workplace SE CMW asked for a list of the links that we oftentimes drop in comments. I started using the Pro-forma comments Stack Apps script to increase my efficiency. I find that I almost never use the defaults that come with the script and that I r...

So 2.5 years ago while I was still attending university I was once contacted by a recruiter, who later introduced me to a firm (firm A) where I had a interview but I didn't take the job at the time (I wanted to get another degree first). Now 2,5 years later I would like to apply for a job at the...

Here's a situation: a recruiter introduces a candidate to a company, and the company is very interested in hiring the candidate. However, if the process at some point breaks down, how long after this process would it be considered ethical for either the company or the candidate to take up the co...

As others have said the how you vote is up to you. No one is going to take away your privilege for voting in a way that is not beneficial to the site. That said, the community benefits most when you use your voting power to reward good questions and answers with up-votes and penalize BAD questi...

In my department, my manager is the whole responsible for our team. In this case, he is very lazy to do work and even he is not interested to see his files.And simply he pass the files/jobs to us. Even though we people have no proper knowledge of the mangers level of work.But we were done that jo...