In my classroom, there's a student who wants to keep the curtains closed/drawn all the time. When the sun starts peeping in through the windows, she draws the curtains, keeping the sun out. As an outside person who is claustrophobic, I feel extremely congested in a room where I can't see the su...

Alright, I'm confused. I just had a conversion with my father about a job application in which they wanted to know if I ever had any traffic violations. Specifically, it read: "Have you ever been convicted, fined, or forfeited bond? This includes any traffic violations (i.e. speeding, ...

There are fourteen answers on this question: How to convince some unknown person to not urinate next to my garage door? The "Question" part of the question states: If we were to communicate with this person through a note we print, what should we say to them, so we encourage them to stop wh...

It's been 4 months since I joined my new company. There is a colleague ( let's call him Bob ) who joined with me. Bob and I were colleagues in my previous company and we both accepted interviews from our current company and cleared them. From my experience with Bob in my previous company, he p...

When preparing for job interviews in the past, my recruiters have told me to ensure that I greet the interviewer with a good firm handshake, or even outside of the work setting when I've given a good handshake to either an academic (when at university) or a professional (at social gatherings) the...

I'm planing to make a post, which contains a lot of background information which I think is important to make clear what kinds of solution I'm not looking for, but isn't very important for those who don't plan to make a answer. The part I'm referring to is put for highlighting purposes as block q...

First a bit of background story: I'm asking this in the context of playing the computer game Overwatch and therefore internet-anonymity as one problem has to be kept in mind. When I started playing the game I got as soon I had some experience a typical command giving a player who just blamed ot...

I know this person and the family of him very well. He had problems in his apprenticeship. I know a person that has the Assberger-Syndrom and my friend has a lot of similarities. I don't want to offend him but I think it would help him a lot if he gets professional help.

SE likes its sites to have a ratio of at least one question vote to three answer votes. The problem arises for me in that when I upvote a question, I tend to upvote most, if not all, the answers. (the reverse is not true.) On most SE sites, there is an average of 2 to 2.5 answers per question. S...

There have been a few questions like: How to convey a message that will convince an unknown person to not urinate next to my garage door? That appear to be asking for an interpersonal skills answer but in reality are seeking a solution to a problem that is not interpersonal skills based. The q...

Wouldn't both profanity and stutter come under speaking? (and profanity come under either online-interactions or communication for written?) I don't think we need specifics in regards to both aspects of these. I would happily untag the questions under these tags, but it'd be nice to have to input...