I'm a girl and to clarify he's not my mentor yet. But I was introduced to him by one of his mentees.
At first we exchanged a few emails about what to expect in his mentoring. There is a small application process and he said just to get to know the mentees better. We exchanged phone number but I ...
hİ Lilienthal..As I see on other questions, big majority of them contains suggestions and requests for suggestions.I dont understand why you pick this question to perform your rules. Anyways, nobody cared about my clear question.You can close, delete,destroy,bann etc. Have a nice day. — OrdinaryGuy26 mins ago
@Simon - possibly quite a few, however that is a very challenging thing for many people/environments
Despite most people agreeing offices would work better without politics, office politics can be one of the most insidious, destructive and pervasive forces in your working life
@RoryAlsop It turns out though, people are... people and learning how to work with people effectively is important (and is always called "politics" by people who don't like it / don't get it)
@Lilienthal are you in germany? the OP in one of the questions you answered is apparently there, too
@enderland Germany. Yes, this probably is culture specific since the entire question is basically about a social issue. At least as far as I understand it right now. — boot4life11 mins ago
It's an interesting question but I'm not sure if it was a good idea of me to bring up the public/private debate in my answer, perhaps it'd be better just to stick to the facts.
That said, my interpretation should match nearly every company in the Occident as far as I know, I've certainly never heard of different attitudes to salary info around here or in the US.
Hi Dave, this would benefit greatly from expanding your answer and explaining why you think this might be correct. Right now this is picking up downvotes because it doesn't really help make a decision (and provides a perspective that people might disagree with). If you can edit this to add more information that would be great! — enderland ♦11 secs ago
I'm a girl, and to clarify he's not my mentor yet. But I was introduced to him by one of his mentees.
At first we exchanged a few emails about what to expect in his mentoring. There is a small application process and he said just to get to know the mentees better. We exchanged phone numbers but...
Is my future mentor "harassing" me?
This question is in my opinion fairly off topic currently - the asker is a student and is seeking a mentor about workplace questions.
It would be one thing if this was a professional mentorship relationship within the workplace, but to me it reads a bit more ...
Honestly, this isn't a good fit as it's more or less attempting to do a poll (while lamenting career path woes). Those sorts of posts do not fit well within a Q/A environment. Any meaningful answer is going to depend 100% on your personal values, interests, and situation. I might suggest Workplace chat as a dialogue will probably be better for this. — enderland ♦5 secs ago
@enderland What happened there was OP did not mention she was a student in the initial version of the question. Some people, including me, naturally assumed that she was talking about a workplace situation, and posted answers. It then became a "hot question" and people kept piling on.
Hmm ... let's see. Can an off-topic question be edited so much that it is not relevant to the OP's situation, but is nonetheless useful to the community?
If the OP were an employee, not a student, then the question seems to be on-topic. OP being a student even seems irrelevant except for the OP.
Yes, that is a good point, but what if I post a new artificial question with essentially the same situation, except that I claim to be a female employee and this "mentor" is a male senior coworker. Would that be off-topic too? I guess not.
the reason that this is a borderline case to me is that they are having conversation about the workplace, but the core problem ultimately is a non-workplace related issue (or resolution)
I see what you mean by this question is off-topic and I agree, but I am not convinced resolution of a workplace harassment issue is off-topic. In this specific case, there is no "workplace" involved per se, so it is fair to call it off-topic.
Yes, that I agree with. I was wondering about the hypothetical question I posted above. To put it another way, before OP made the first edit, it was definitely on-topic, and as new information emerged it became off-topic. I find something is off about that, though I cannot quite explain why.
they company that gave me an offer had mentioned the joining date as 28 September on the condition if I were to negotiate an early relive from the notice period. However my current company requires 2 months of notice, which I have given and resigned. So now should I ask my new employer to send me a new offer letter to sign for the new date or endorse the new date on this same offer and send them back?
Under what circumstances should raises given to employees be announced publicly or communicated in private? There seem to be two conflicting schools of thought:
Give them in private in order to not demotivate those employees who did not get a raise.
Announce them publicly so that other employe...
If I have a job that lasted less than 2 months on my professional career, can I leave it out of my application/resume to MBAs? I am asking because I got offered a better job with better pay and location that is better to for my career just 2 weeks into my new job. Is it possible to do so, or will...
I have a job interview tomorrow for the role of a junior software developer at a medium sized company.
I get nervous and sometime forget what to say and questions that I have for them.
Is it unprofessional to take notes to an interview from a professional standpoint
Is my future mentor "harassing" me?
This question is in my opinion fairly off topic currently - the asker is a student and is seeking a mentor about workplace questions.
It would be one thing if this was a professional mentorship relationship within the workplace, but to me it reads a bit more ...
Under what circumstances should raises given to employees be announced publicly or communicated in private? There seem to be two conflicting schools of thought:
Give them in private in order to not demotivate those employees who did not get a raise.
Announce them publicly so that other employe...
I have a job interview tomorrow for the role of a junior software developer at a medium sized company.
I get nervous and sometime forget what to say and questions that I have for them.
Is it unprofessional to take notes to an interview from a professional standpoint
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