The Workplace Weekly Newsletter - Friday, January 29, 2016

Top new questions this week: How to politely tell coworkers that their input is unnecessary or unneeded? I am a manager at a company which has struggled the past 2 years with the changing market and due to this has had several budget constraints. Just recently I finally got a budget to redesign one of ... professionalism communication   asked by Shawn 76 votes answered by Prinz 128 votes OK to leave the office without permission to work from home? Within the space of a week I have been given several time-sensitive projects to work on by top management. These projects are intricate and will be challenging. I am still the first point of contact ... professionalism productivity   asked by Keith 38 votes answered by AndreiROM 106 votes How can I get my co-workers to migrate to a new system without being too pushy? A few weeks ago I migrated our team repository from SVN to Git (just think of it as something we work with once to multiple times a day). As I expected the challenge wasn't the technical part but ... technology   asked by blackbird57 28 votes answered by Max 53 votes Team member achieving more, by putting in more than regular working hours for not so urgent tasks I have a great team member who is very reliable and dependable and a great asset to the team. However, of late, I have realized that this person is working for almost 14 hours a day. There is ... software-industry work-environment team work-life-balance   asked by shyla 27 votes answered by BryanH 45 votes Is whispering at work unprofessional? I've always been of the opinion that whispering at work should be reserved for things like pointing out a wardrobe malfunction and not for extended conversation. Is it unprofessional to whisper when ... professionalism communication   asked by Lilienthal 27 votes answered by JeffO 54 votes How to complain to my boss about late payments I have been working in a company for a year now and never had any problems with payments before. On the last day of each month we have received our payments (not even a day late). For the last few ... salary salaried-pay   asked by user2093301 22 votes answered by jimm101 49 votes Filling a gap on my resume, is this ethical? I have a few long gaps in my resume. I spent a lot of that time traveling the world. This isn't just one gap -- there's two or three gaps over the past decade and a half. I also worked on my own ... resume employment-gaps   asked by horse hair 22 votes answered by Lilienthal 49 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Is using swear words for emphasis acceptable in an interview? I have an interview for an internship with the software/technology department of a large financial institution next week and during preparation, I came to ask to myself whether swearing in an ... interviewing software-industry   asked by Peter Goldsborough 28 votes answered by Dan 138 votes Writing a letter asking for a job that's not advertised I'm in a position where I am about to write a company asking for a job, and basically describing my own job position. This company is aching for people and is looking for smart people, but at the same ... job-search cover-letter job-description   asked by Irwin 20 votes answered by Monica Cellio 22 votes

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