Simply as the question asks. I have been working at the same company for just over a year and I made a request for a salary increase, this is because my pay isn't covering my bills any more. It was denied. Would it be unprofessional or unreasonable to now start looking for work elsewhere? To cla...

Ignore the fact that the recruiter sent you the unsolicited lead. Proceed as you would if you discovered the candidate yourself. You have no business relationship with them and therefore you don't owe anything to anyone. Double check the above with your company's HR/Lawyer to be on the safe side...

I can't help feeling that some of the questions on the site are opportunities to offload to a listening pair of ears (or thousands of pairs of ears as the case may be). I'm thinking in particular of this question: Should I take leave before office function? As Oded says in his comments, and I d...

From PhantomJS, how do I write to a log instead of to the console? In the examples https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Examples, it always (in the ones I have looked at) says something like: console.log('some stuff I wrote'); This is not so useful.

We get a number of questions like this which basically boil down to the asker not knowing what to negotiate or when to negotiate it. If we had a comprehensive question and answer that detailed when it's good to negotiate and why it's good to negotiate these things, would this be on topic and be...

I consider that it is not polite, or not correct, to say to someone that the work he has done is not good enough. It will not motivate him to improve, and it has a negative aspect I want to avoid. So, focusing on a better move, I would say "There is still a room for improvement". But, I heard it...

The Workplace seems like one example of a site that is primarily asking opinion bases questions: "way to professionaly quit a job?", etc. I noticed that a lot of questions are getting flagged as on-hold in that site. Why? These are not questions with clear concise answers like "Why does this f...

I noticed that a lot of questions are getting flagged as on-hold in that site. Why? We get people asking "Dear Workplace, what should I do?" and who come without actual problems of any sort. Many of the questions which get closed are questions which at root cause are not actually questions...

I was offered a job in healthcare for $X + benefits. The pay is less when compared to my current job, but I wanted to move to be closer to family. I didn't want to leave money on the table so I made a counter offer to increase the pay stating high cost of living in the new city and my current sal...

I have often asked developers to choose what work they would prefer to work on. Not everyone always gets everything they want of course. We all know the whole basket of work has to get done. My thinking has always been that we all know everyone prefers to work on certain parts, and that other ...

Just for fun, I thought I would use this command on my Raspberry PI running Raspbian: sudo rm -f /bin/rm I thought I could just reinstall coreutils: I was wrong! apt-get install --reinstall coreutils gives an error from dpkg, saying it couldn't remove the package. Compiling from source doesn'...