The Water Cooler

A: Should I be sending a rejection letter for every candidate who applies for an online job post?

9:39 AM

General understanding As a general rule of thumb candidates understand that employers will be receiving many many more applications for the position than they will be sending out, so it is understood that to write a detailed reply to every candidate would require an inordinate amount of time tha...

nice edit on this @Jmort253

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1:25 PM

Hmm, why cant comments be downvoted

@acolyte I dislike the brokenwindow problems this creates

if a question is bad enough it should be closed, then it's bad enough it shouldn't be answered

@enderland actually i think i have to agree with acolyte here

(I would much strongly prefer questions to only be answered once edited into a good format)

sometimes the question is a good question but asked badly

we shouldnt punish the 50 people it might help in the future because the 1 person who made it did it badly

though, im actually in two minds about this

no but a questino shoudl be clarified and made good before that

1:27 PM

actually i change my mind again

bad questions shouldnt get answers

otherwise they get the answer and leave us with a poor question

which encourages more poor questions

so in retrospect i agree with you @enderland

A: How should one handle an unnecessary question?

everything I wrote here applies to this situation

edit: Most of the other answers involve enabling someone to ask more of these out of convenience. You do NOT want to enable people to ask these types of questions more often. Simply giving an answer without trying to change the way people approach questions is not going to make them go away in...

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2:42 PM

There has been a recent influx of people tearing into the OP in the answers and comments. I can't say i like it

2:52 PM

@enderland I would move the edit section to the bottom of your answer. Your answer is good... I do not know that it even needs the edit part but that stands out and overshadows the good part of your answer now imp

@chad imp?

In my pninion, which is like an opinion but better because it starts with a p :)

Q: How to overcome the anxiety caused by delay in receiving offer letter?

oh, no impo? :/

I was recently interviewed by a giant software consulting firm. There were around 8 rounds of interview over phone and face-to-face spanned over 45 days. I attended the last round termed as salary negotiation discussion with HR 2 weeks ago and HR confirmed me that the offer letter will be release...

negotiation job-offer

is this not veering towards being off topic?

overcoming anxiety is a thing you will face in life all the time, not just the workplace,

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4:30 PM

@Chad imp it should be imo

4:42 PM

sometimes it blows my mind the conduct of people on this site when they are other people who are either trolling hardcore or legitimately people trying to enter the workforce too, or worse, people with experience in the workforce already

4:56 PM

@enderland some of the ettiquette here recently has been very very poor

just yesterday i let a new user know that they could flag comments or raise meta posts

and someone ripped into me saying that it wasnt needed as there was nothing wrong with anything

A: Is it discrimination when my boss treats me differently after knowing that I'm looking for a new job

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Discrimination is a legal question that is based on you where you live, and is out of scope for a discussion here. What you should do, is talk to your boss. Tell him you are actively looking to increase your responsibilities and position. You would like to achieve this at your current place o...

Is this really suggesting to tell your current boss whenever you are thinking of leaving the company?

yep

A: How to handle informal influence that contradicts formal agreements?

5:53 PM

Having been a freelancer/contractor in the past, I myself have been on the sharp end of contracts/projects where they're trying to squeeze every last bit of value out of the dollar. The simple facts are these - you're only paid for the hours you bill. Whether you want to do an extra few hours pu...

The answer is advising that it is ok to collude to commit fraud on a consulting company /shudder

@enderland Actually it is a good answer. He says to advise you want to move up here but that you are looking elsewhere too. In otherwords leaving me at status quo is a terminal choice.

6:23 PM

@Chad you obviously trust your managers a lot more than probably the rest of us...

6:34 PM

@enderland If you do not trust your manager then why are you working there? There are other jobs.

Let me rephrase that if you do not trust your manager enough to talk to them about career growth then why are you working there

@Chad oh, I definitely talk about career growth but the idea of talking about "career growth outside this company, btw, I'm interviewing with competitors that cool?" is a biiiig leap imp (imo :P)

gnat

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7:01 PM

@enderland Hey Dave, I really love working here but I have the the experience and recruiters are knocking on my door. I really feel like if I am not moving up here then maybe I need to start talking to them.

I am not saying hey Dave, I gotta bug oout early to go interview with innotech... unless you want to promote me

@Chad well that's what the answer kinda says

No the answer was closer to the first example

The point is really you need to be a partner with your bosses career (in that you make him look good) as well as having him involved in the advancement of yours

You can just suddenly start trying to be a team player because you want a promotion either... I know quite a few people who think that way

@Chad I think I see what you are saying now

If you have always treated your boss like an enemy instead of a team mate then it is going to be hard to convince him that you are not the enemy you have portrayed yourself to be

That said I know there are bosses that are not team mates and want underlings... that is where I know i made the wrong choice

7:25 PM

indeed. I have definitely had managers where that is the case (as well as not the casE)

7:36 PM

Did you notice i actually had to answer one that the answer was to quit :p

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Q: How to bring up relocation / resignation?

8:46 PM

I will be moving away in about 5-6 months time because my significant other has an opportunity in another location. I have done quite well at my current firm. I came in as an intern then was brought in full time and was promoted in less than 1 year's time to a senior. I like a lot of the people...

resignation

hey first mostly dup of "preparing for getting hit by bus" ?

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