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I see these questions from time to time, and having gone through rebuilding myself from nothing, I know how to do both. Does this come up enough for us to write a canon question and answer it?

I've become confused by two meta posts: Edit invalidating top voted answer (REOPENED) Reopen request: Clean Air & Office In the first, user @MonicaCellio made substantial editorial changes in an ...

This question has been closed with the ever-popular "Questions seeking advice on company-specific regulations, agreements, or policies should be directed to your manager or HR department. Questions ...

This question has been edited by a diamond moderator in a way that invalidates the top-voted answer. Given the question as it now stands, my reaction tends towards "give your colleague a heads up". ...

Edit: Rather than ask why my comment was deleted, I’d rather ask, was it not useful? I understand moderator fatigue is real, and comments are noisy — especially in Workplace — but, for a while, my ...

How to deal with inter-team work in a toxic team? This has been edited down to a manageable size. It's answerable now.

Open space vs offices. Which one is better for a new team? This was closed as being Primarily opinion based, however given there is actual research done on this I'd suggest that it's actually not the ...

Is the double the from the inbox notification (pictured below) a template issue or are we rolling with it?

The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...

Yes, we all know about "HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND" as a way of telling people that they may be getting more than they bargained for if they run to HR with their problems. But I think a better approach ...

Well done mate, you've put in a lot of solid quality effort and been a great example to all of us.

How to ask good hypothetical questions? Sometimes we face recurring issues at the workplace, when a situation repeats itself and may need addressing at some point in the future. These situations are ...

As experienced job-seekers (and regular readers at The Workplace) know, an interview is a two-way street. Just as it's important for the community to ask questions of candidates, it's also important ...

I recently posted a well-received answer to a question about diversity in hiring. Unsurprisingly, this question has become mildly controversial among people who have different views on the value of ...

On one hand, protection limits responses to a question, which can work against the goal of the person awarding a bounty (assuming the purpose of the bounty is to elicit additional answers). On the ...

I noticed that there are situations when different questions, with different contexts, have very similar answers. Question: Is it OK if I post a "generic" question and I also provide the answer to it?...

The question I'm referring to: Getting training on a job with a child on the way This might be a legitimate question, but there's enough red flags for me: Kid on the way (as in, by the time we're ...

I am a biology major who is applying for QC laboratory jobs, which state the need for cGMP skills. I am having trouble honing down resources for learning cGMP, as I hear it is variable to your job. ...

The Workplace Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election starting next week, February 11th. In connection with that election as we have done in previous years, we will be hosting a Q&A here for ...

I put my answer as a comment here because there was no answer box, and the question was not even protected. Trying to quit smoking but co-workers want me to start again due to me being more irritable ...

Looks like the home page i.e. "Top Questions" is currently broken!

I've noticed when you vote to close a question you do not get a "Useful flags" count, however when you flag with reason "should be closed" then it classes as a close vote but you still get the useful ...

I was looking at the list of all tag synonyms and checking out which requests were pending. I noticed that layoff, with 68 questions, is proposed as a synonym for redundancy, which has 31 questions. ...

I just saw an edit in the review queue which changed the tag behaviour to behavior, and rightfully so. As Glorfindel pointed out in the edit, SE guidance indicates that tags should be in US-English. I'...

This question Impostor syndrome or will I get fired? should be reopened. It already has some good answers. And one of the folks voting to close it already provided an answer - not very nice.

This latest turn has irritated me a bit, so forgive my tone. A user comes in, writes a question, which is down-voted and closed. None of the people who voted to close left a comment, edited the ...

2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :) What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads ...

I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: How to tell someone politely that they are barking up the wrong tree? The question is put on hold, how can I improve it?

So I add a comment to a question and I can track the question I commented on by digging into my profile and looking at my history. But it turns out that this was a contentious question and a large ...

How do people with ADD manage in the tech industry This question was voted to close as 'too broad', but has attracted several upvotes and answers. I have ADHD myself - so I have an interest in this ...

Since different countries can have wildly different labor laws and customs, I think a prompt to request the user to enter country of origin either in the post itself or the tags would be of great help....

This question is posted by a new contributor describing an extremely rare situation and although the answers are useful for the OP, hardly anyone else is helped by the questions/answers (I guess - ...

I commented on the answer in this question yesterday. There was a lot of discussion going on where one person's responses were all deleted (so it looked like multiple people responding to no one). I ...

I'm sorry if I'm asking a silly question and the answer should be obvious but when I visit Workplace, no matter which tab is selected, I mostly see questions with several answers already in place. ...

Is it common to require a candidate to take an automatically-graded online coding test if they have lots of demonstrable material online? The OP asks questions (in the sense that there are sentences ...

Please take a look at @EstherSchindler answer to this question. Is there any reason why she should not post the URL to her eBook? I for one would like to read it, if she is agreeable, and I think ...

Boredom, lack of projects, search for new opportunity This question is definitely long winded, and rambling, but I don't understand why it was closed as "unclear what you're asking" when there's a ...

I've noticed a lot of questions lately where someone is complaining about a very specific technical process or concern related to programming. Shouldn't these details be edited out? These usually ...

Very often this answer is given, and sometimes it is clear that it is not the answer the OP is looking for. How to deal with this? Flag or downvote or is it just ok as an answer, even if it's generic?...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

Fired, accused of conducting web searches I didn't do. This is not about a company specific policy. This is general enough to where it is easily answerable, and has two VERY good answers HERE ...

I'm five points short of entering the review queues. I'm practiced in other SE communities, but I'd like a bit of insight before I begin to review. Please consider both this question and my answer ...

I saw this image on a question today: isn't this how this site is supposed to work 100% of the time? Comments are only supposed suggest improvements or see clarity. They don't always get used that ...

This is not a re-open request per-se, I just want to know what people think about this question. While it is asking "about a specific choice" I still think this question can be answered objectively ...

I asked Is it typical in small companies to BCC the CEO on all external mails? question a few years back. There were few useful comments. Those comments were moved to chat. I do not disagree with ...

Re: The Workplace updated site theme is ready for testing! I'm unclear about what problems the updated theme was supposed to solve, but I can definitely tell you about two problems it introudced: ...

How to find workplaces with high proportion of young (20-something) college-educated population? I don't understand how this could possibly be considered too broad. Can anyone help? I voted to ...

Wishing you all a great day and all the best for your holidays. Another year nearly gone, you've all accomplished something positive just by participating here, so congratulations.

what is the position of the workplace community on "unerlaubte Rechtsberatung" (giving legal advice for a specific legal situation to a person may get you fined unless you are a lawyer or acting in a ...