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  What does it mean if you speak with no filter at work?

  Today I got told by HR that some colleagues mentioned I speak without filtering sometimes so I'm wondering what that means?? 

  I admit soemtines I may be tactless when having laughs with the other colleagues, or may not thibk before speaking. What is your interpretation of a feedback like this if you received it?

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  If your working remotely, do you find it awkward having to use your personal cell phone for work?

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  How to talk with filter at work?

  This was something HR recently told me was a concern so I need some tips on talking with a filter at work

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  Will they ask for a reference off my current employer? ?

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  They will probably understand why you don't want your current employer to be contacted.  It should not be an issue. 

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  What are hybrid hours?

  When talking about work what does hybrid mean? I have never heard that before. Is this new?

  4 Answers2 months ago
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  How do stop racist nickname at work? ?

  I work in a company that is mostly white guys. Everyone keeps calling me by the N word. Not that anyone is argumentative, they just call me that in casual conversation, almost as a nickname. If I ask them them to stop, they just brush me off. When I spoke with HR, the lady just said “that’s what you are-what do you expect” What should I do? I do not want to leave my job. 

  7 Answers2 months ago
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  Manager gave excellent marks to my team members except for me ?

  My coworker who skips difficult projects and I have to do the ones she skips and fix both the coworkers mistakes but somehow I am the one not getting excellent marks and they are getting it because they completed more work but I also completed more than required work. Even asked manager to switch me into different team but seems like I am stuck at this team. Why manager is not letting me go to different team? If she thinks this coworker of mine is doing excellent job why not have her work by herself? I missed working by myself. I emailed manager about this as well 

  4 Answers2 months ago
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  If a berating boss at law firm goes from “senior partner” to “counsel,” is he no longer in charge, and therefore can’t yell at employees?

  Let’s say he’s the founder of a firm in which his name is first in the name of employer. But then due to a fight with one of the partners which led to a legal battle, the firm splits and starts two new firms. The founder’s title at the new firm is “counsel,” as his photo/profile on the firm’s website, is located at the bottom of the staff. Although, the new firm is still under his name, and ONLY his name. What does that mean in terms of his authority, considering he made his employees cry at the previous firm where his title was “senior partner.”

  5 Answers2 months ago
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  CA labor laws for 7 straight working days?

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  Your manager is correct:

  https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_Overtime.htm

  "shall not be employed more than eight hours in any workday or more than 40 hours in any workweek unless he or she receives one and one-half times his or her regular rate of pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any workday and over 40 hours in the workweek (or double time as specified below). Eight hours of labor constitutes a day's work, and employment beyond eight hours in any workday or more than six days in any workweek requires the employee to be compensated for the overtime at not less than:"

  See the word "workweek" this is the key to your issue.

  Workweek in this phrase is a link to a definition of what a workweek is in the St of CA.

  "Any seven consecutive days, starting with the same calendar day each week beginning at any hour on any day, so long as it is fixed and regularly occurring. "Workweek" is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours, seven consecutive 24-hour periods. "

  We don't know what your "workweek" is in your question.  Let's say it's Mon-Sun (it doesn't matter if its Sat-Fri or Sun-Sat = all the situations involve 2 workweeks).

  Workweek 1 = Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun

  Workweek 2 = Mon, Tues.

  In response to DEBS info about manipulation:  it can't be manipulated because the "workweek" is a fixed 7 day period.  It can change, but it can't change willy-nilly, to meet the companies OT requirements. 

  6 Answers3 months ago
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  If employee is fired, & employer dissolves yrs. later & opens 2 separate firms (the 2 partners had dispute), are his evaluations discarded ?

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  If female employee ignores lower-level male employee saying good morning,but then finds out he’s married or gay, would she stop ignoring him?

  Perhaps she assumes his “good mornings” are his way of flirting, as she feels uncomfortable with this “loser who probably lives with his mother” trying to get with her.  But what if she found out he was married or gay?  

  5 Answers3 months ago
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  If a new employee in HR enforces new rules/policies, was he hired to make those changes, or were those changes his own decision?

  Let’s say an HR employee enforces the following rules:

  — all employees will be required to punch-out to use the restroom.

  — support staff will no longer be paid hourly, but instead a set salary (their current hourly salary multiplied by their standard hours); no overtime no matter how many hours they work.

  FYI — previously, only the non-legal staff was paid a set salary, such as partners, associates, etc.  And the “punch out for restroom” was due to several employees goofing off in restroom instead of just relieving themselves and getting back to work.  Did the new HR guy enforce this on his own, and does his boss (the partner) have no say in this?  Or did the boss hire him to make these changes and straighten things up with the “slackers”?

  5 Answers3 months ago
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  If employee’s salary is 38K, is there a good chance his year-end raise will be 40K even if the decided percentage doesn’t equal that?

  Basically, if an employee’s salary is almost in a new bracket, is it likely the superiors will be in favor of bumping that employee’s salary to the next bracket no matter what percentage increase they initially decided?  For example:

  They give him a 5% raise, which equals $39,000.  Will they let him slide and say “Let’s make it an even $40,000,” which would obviously make employee very happy not just because of the raise, but because he’s now part of the “40 club.”  With slacker employees that have bad attitudes, I imagine there’s no chance of this.  But what if it’s a very well-liked hard-working employee who never calls in sick?  Will the superiors figure “He’s almost at 40K, so let’s give him that instead”?

  Or are superiors like teachers — if you get a 95% on a test, they’re not going to bump it up to 100%?

  4 Answers4 months ago
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  Is it rude for employee to not move to the left or right when walking past co-worker, as if he’s high and almighty & shouldn’t have to move?

  Keep in mind he only does this to the lower-level employees, as well as ignores them.  In addition, he never holds the door nor elevator for them.  One time when he was locked out of the office and forgot his key card, he knocked on the glass door as one of the lower-level employees walked by.  When he heard the knocking and let him in, he didn’t say “thank you.”  Basically, he treats that department like they’re invisible nobodies.  Thus, the walking without having the natural reflex (like when you’re walking down the street in public) to move to the side.

  4 Answers4 months ago
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  Is it unprofessional for HR manager(40 y/o woman) to speak to 25 y/o employee like he’s a child, as well as repeatedly call him a “good boy”?

  And is it understandable if he feels belittled and patronized, as if HR thinks he’s retarded?  Please excuse my poor choice of words, but I’m wondering since adults with Down syndrome and other forms of mental retardation are spoken to like children.

  FYI - the 25 y/o got the job through his mother’s connections.  However, he lives on his own and has a car, as well as a girlfriend.  But HR embarrassed him in front of the staff by asking how his mother’s doing, as well as mentioning that she saw her the other day at a corporate event, since they both work in the same field.  Should she have kept her mouth shut and realize beforehand that mentioning guy got job through his mother is a “no no,” thus a guy’s masculinity?  Is she not very bright when it comes to gender studies AND Human Resources?

  She is 40 with no husband or kids, but has 100s of nephews and nieces.  Perhaps she feels the need to baby adult men younger than her, in an effort to fill that void?  If so, at the job is extreme and uncalled for.

  6 Answers5 months ago
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  When new employee immediately ignores certain co-workers, did she basically study the employee directory (who’s a CEO, who’s a janitor, etc)?

  Let’s say her position requires a college degree, and she ignores a male co-worker (who said “good morning”) whose position requires diploma/GED, when she was only working there for two days.  Did she look up his position on the employee directory and think, “Oh, he’s a bum.  I will be ignoring him going forward”?  Keep in mind he didn’t corner her with a conversation, but just casually smiled and said “good morning” as he walked by her.  But she just silently gave him an ice-cold glare, making him feel foolish or as if he said something wrong.  Do applicants have this trend where they are prepared to separate themselves from anyone who is “below” them, as they worry about getting hit on by male co-workers with GEDs who perhaps live with their moms and are creepy?

  5 Answers5 months ago
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  Can HR manager send employees home the day after Election Day due to them gleefully chanting president elect’s name who she didn’t vote for?

  Keep in mind they were chanting in a respectful tone instead of obnoxiously and loud.  Therefore, is she (HR manager) being bitter and spiteful?

  5 Answers5 months ago
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  Can a male employee be written up/fired for sniffing a female co-worker’s sweater while she’s away from her desk?

  Serious answers please, because I am not a troll.

  A female co-worker told me that she noticed a male co-worker pressing another female co-worker’s sweater against his face, as he was sniffing it.  But I have a feeling she’s exaggerating about her dismay for him (regarding what a jerk he is, or how creepy he is).  Regardless of his personality/sexual behavior, I don’t think he would be dumb enough to go to a female’s cubicle and sniff her sweater all out in the open like that.

  FYI, I hear a lot of stories about people at my job, but I think they are false, as the person telling them, just has hatred for those people.  Thus, exaggerating how bad those people are.

  8 Answers6 months ago
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  How do I stop the my coworker from flexing his wealth on the lower paid employees he supervises ?

  Most people can barely make ends meet and he is always bragging about his purchases and vacations. One lady who worked in payroll killed herself last month and before that he was taunting her about how poor she was. 

  8 Answers6 months ago
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  If employee has OCD, can he be exempt from being written up/fired if he refuses to do certain tasks because he’s busy straightening things?

  Let’s say he’s obsessed with keeping things neat and exact.  In addition, he has Aspergers/autism which makes him very difficult to work with.  If a co-worker needs help with something, he claims he can’t do it, when all he’s doing is pointless busy work that he perceives as important.  Since his condition, not his attitude, makes him insufferable, will that be waived on his evaluation, since he technically doesn’t have an attitude problem, but rather a condition he lives with.

  FYI, he never flat-out said he has OCD or Aspergers.  But he demonstrates many of those traits, such as constantly touching things (moving them).  And he ALWAYS refuses to do certain tasks.  Is he untouchable?

  7 Answers6 months ago