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I see the message "Serial voting was reversed" in the Recent achievements list. What does that mean?

I'm on a number of forums and I have to say that Workplace has the most insane voting patterns of all the forums. I'm all for some downvoting when needed, but I see a lot of questions with heavy ...

I were going to ask a question: "What are the good things to do when taking on a new position in a new company?" but I thought that there would be no clear answer or an answer would be an aggregation ...

I wrote this question: Is it common for new employees to be appointed to a team in a higher position than the current technical lead? Is there a term for this? At first, I was not planning on ...

This question is one vote away from being closed due to over - broad. I have edited the title and questions to hopefully narrow the scope and make them more focused on how to navigate job role ...

This is a recently introduced feature: There are times when the hotness formula selects a question that a site would rather not have featured. Up until now, the only recourse that was available was ...

Did we activate or turn up bot detection lately? I'm getting a lot of "An error occurred during the edit" (or during posting answers) lately. For instance, I just got both errors trying to post and ...

Over the last 6 weeks or so, we've seen effectively the same question posted (at least) 5 times: Use preferred name at work? Can you use a preferred name tag at work Name tag at work - using a ...

Dismissed on grounds of misconduct, without police involvement This was closed as unclear, which seems to be because the original version of the text was very brief and included an acronym that only ...

Anyone else experiencing an error when they click the "All actions" tab of their Activity page? Apparently the "Responses" and "Votes" tabs are broken as well. Apparently it was intermittent/random, ...

My name is Juan M and I'm one of the community managers here on the network. You can read more about some of what I'm working on here and here. For several years we've had advertising on technology-...

Misleading/out of date LinkedIn profiles - saying you still work for an employer when you don't is closed as Unclear what you're asking. There is nothing unclear about it. It seems on-topic (...

In the past few days, I've seen a few notifications that "User was removed" in my Achievements list. Some removed points, some added points. I assume I would see only a single "User was removed" ...

I asked a question about a general case: How to counter "I don't like your tone" in a work conversation? One of the comments mentions "we need to check case by case". I am pretty sure ...

I started contributing to TWP recently and liking the community so far. I searched the meta for any past swag-yielding events, and got a reference for the only one swag giveaway. Asked around in ...

I would like to sandbox a question. I don't think this is a dupe. We are a group of PhD students, have a group lunch with our boss (PI). That never happened before and there is currently no agenda. ...

I was looking for questions about medical issues and job interviews in Australia. This question turned up in a search: Unemployed with health issues last 9 years, how do I present myself in best ...

MIS vs IT Degrees It's closed now as "off topic, asking for advice on a specific choice." My interpretation is that the asker is not asking which degree to pursue; instead they're asking does it ...

As is all to common here, we have had yet another Meta question asking why comments were removed from a post. The answer to this is pretty clear, and I'm not at all questioning their removal. One ...

Dangerous workplace travelling This question had multiple comments which identified the area the OP was talking about, and had discussions about the relative safety of the US vs. other nations of the ...

Can my company stop me from working overtime? This question was just put on hold as "unclear what you're asking" - which I don't understand, given that the actual title is a very clear question, ...

I'm asking because of the specific question below, but I'm hoping to get an answer for the general case: Good or bad company? The relevant part: I can't tell if this is normal stuff to have to ...

Sometimes I edit others' questions or answers for minor things like readability and grammar. I have status on this site that lets me edit their content immediately, without my edits going into a queue....

The question Why did I get fired right before my last day? was closed, and I personally do not believe there is any other place on SE to ask this good question. Is it OK to ask where it is closest to ...

In this question the OP acknowledges behaving unprofessionally in the office and is concerned that this may have been witnessed by a female colleague, who is now acting uncomfortable around him. A ...

In the spirit of the high holy day of Christianity, it's time for (metaphorical) death and renewal. I came back because of the twitstorm and felt I could help out, but it's clear I have other venues. ...

The question How to deal with legacy software and split opinion only needs one more open vote to be reopened. Given that the reason it was closed was "Because ask a software question on a software ...

Since TWP has a very large userbase from IT, and there is a much higher prevelance of autism in high tech fields in general See this study, An effort should be made to be more welcoming of people on ...

I have a question about my The Workplace Stack Exchange post: App startup founder wants my help to solve urgent software engineering problem affecting considerable percent of users - says will give a ...

Working with people that have different views in geopolitics This is not opinion based, and multinationals such as the one I work for are constantly handling this sticky situation with China. There ...

April is autism awareness month. As I've seen no official posts on it since I've been here, I've decided to take the initiative. Autism (and Asperger's syndrome, which is a form of autism) presents ...

Has anyone else been having missing notifications? I posted an answer on a Meta thread and had two users comment on it, but I never received any notification for the comments. Has anyone else been ...

Different opinion led to a co-worker not working with me anymore This question was closed as "opinion-based", but the OP wasn't asking whether we agree with his opinion. The question he's asking is ...

In this question: How should I tactfully let my coworker know I'm uncomfortable being alone with someone else in a closed-off room? The OP is promoting a blatant sexist stereotype of "All men ...

This question Is QA's job only to perform Quality Assurance of developer's work? really should be moved to the Software Quality Assurance & Testing stackexchange. It doesn't belong here. ...

How to point to risks in a culture that awards optimism and punishes CYA Every answer here has 2 downvotes. I'm prepared to accept my answer was merits the DVs it got, but two downvotes on all ...

I've done my bit for this community I reckon. I don't like it lately, and life's too short to let myself worry about petty inconsequentials and people on the internet. So I'm taking a break. I'm old, ...

I noticed that we have tags both for legal (189 questions) and law (73 questions). I think the two words are pretty much synonymous, so I would propose having law redirect to legal. Unfortunately I ...

I don't know whether it is just me or anyone happen to see this too. When I open a badge to select any badge to see the information, its like bug to bottom. I cannot scroll until the bottom.

I'd like to get everyone's thoughts on how questions like this fit against guidelines on this site: Agreement between employee and employer for use of personal equipment Although the larger topic ...

I rcently came across the following Topic: What can I do if I am asked to learn different programming languages very frequently? I am a Human Resources Professional with some experience in this ...

I want the following answer undeleted as it clearly and demostrabely is not what it is falsely accused of ! https://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/131840/revisions I have not used offensive ...

We don't have fixed terms for mods. This means that if a mod goes off the rails or loses sight of their role they remain in a position of power and can enforce their personal opinions or agendas on ...

Inspired by the discussion on THIS QUESTION The answer deleted had a +17 and -28 for a total of -11 The following answers, by the same user, were rated as low, if not lower What should I do about ...

Congratulations to Richard U for reaching 100K. We are inspired by you. Wish you good fortune and the best it yet to come!! A personal note: In case you're yet to read the bio, please do.

Would you mods care to explain the deletion of my perfectly good answer? Just because your culture upbringing and religion and mine are not the same doesn't mean mine has anything wrong with it. What ...

This is a relevant and answerable question. Am I able to retake a Pre-employment Drug Screen? Drug tests are not arbitrary, there are fixed and logical procedures for them which deal with attempts ...

The water cooler on our site theme doesn't currently act as a link to our main chatroom, The Water Cooler. This is clearly unacceptable!!! Obviously this should act as a hyperlink to our chatroom to ...

I recently asked a question that gave me some rep points and I want to invest all those points on this answer I had 450+ rep, started a bounty and rewarded that answer and now that I have again 100+ ...

I wanted to read the comments of this answer. One of them, from a mod, says: Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat But the link points to 404 Not Found ...