Background I am frequently working with a colleague who is a little bit junior to me (but not particularly "fresh" - he has been in the company for over 10 years in a lead developer/expert role for some other software). He is relatively new in our team, with me as his primary coach, so I, by def...

When my mother learned that I had a substantial amount of money in savings, she informed me that my brother had been arrested a year ago, lost his job, and needed an attorney because he was facing 120 years in prison. She said they had not told me because they didn't want to worry me. I immedia...

Backstory I have a girlfriend (let's call her "Alice") who is 24, and I am 18. Before I met this girl I became good friends with "Bob" (he is 25), who then introduced me to "Alice". A few months after this we began dating. It is now at the stage where we think "Bob" should be informed. Ideal en...

So today at work we had a tray of doughnuts, my colleague called out to the office, "I'm going to have the last one unless anyone else would like it?". At this point, I realised that I don't think I've ever heard anyone respond saying that they would like the last thing. If I were to say this to...

Inspired by the responses to this question I've seen a pattern of responses to the questions being more focused on the situation rather than the IPS required to solve the problem. In other stacks, the questions can be more about the what to do, but here, as in SO, we need to be more focused on...

First of all, i have no clue if this site is the right context for this question, but i have no clue where to ask this, as it somehow also concerns IPS. If it is wrong, please migrate it to the right site. I have read so many times in the past days that people worry how to say their opinion on s...

Twice recently I've answered questions that seemed clear and answerable to me, and then later the questions were put on hold as too broad. I try to be a good SE citizen; I don't knowingly answer questions that ought to be closed instead, and I try to avoid making assumptions that need to be clar...

How can someone politely refuse to tell his parents where he works? While I don't have a bad relationship with the part of the parents who tries to find out you could say that our relation is rather cold. Since I've already made bad experiences (person calling my boss at work) and my sister had...

My friend is going to pay me a visit in a few days. He comes from another city (Shiraz, I live in Isfahan). The problem is that he is heavily accented (I don't know if heavily word is correct here or not). I had trouble with understanding the voice messages he sent me, so I ask him to send text m...

I work at an institution of higher education. One of our employee benefits is a generous tuition reimbursement if we take classes here. I decided to take advantage of this and go back to school, finish my degree by scheduling classes part time around the FT job that allows me the benefit of thi...

Okay so this morning I was in the computer lab, and there are usually about around 100 computers there. In the morning it's usually relative empty, so there are just open computers scattered across the room. So anyway, I see this relatively cute girl come up and sit two computers next to me. Sh...