Be respectful. That’s usually all they want.  
 And they take time to understand things but they eventually get there.  
  
 If they’re being impolite to you or totally not listening to you. That’s material for complaining

Product Marketing Manager

I'm 23 and most of the stakeholders that I handle are of the age 35-50. It's a bit awkward at first, but then they're chill and I'm also getting used to it. But I'm not a PM.

Product Manager

Engineering manager

Pretend to listen and mindless revert at correct times. Most of them have their own glory day stories of struggle whereas you have it easy. And be wary of them, they’re literal leeches who have only survived the system by ass licking or stagnating.

Business Development Manager

I work in a bank as PM, I don’t know how to handle stakeholders who are of my uncle’s age. It would be helpful if anyone share their experiences in working

I work in a bank as PM, I don’t know how to handle stakeholders who are of my uncle’s age. It would be helpful if anyone share their experiences in working with elder colleagues.

How to deal with your colleagues who are very elder to you ?

How to deal with your colleagues who are very elder to you ?- Grapevine

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As a young 22-23 year old working as area sales manager (ASM) how do you handle older employees who’re not ready to accept you as a manager?

Managing older employees in your team

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hi all,
I am currently interning at a US medical device healthcare giant.
Its been close to 5 months I'm here. Till now I haven't been assigned any implementation tasks
All I get to do is dry runs, debugging and documentation

PPO is also not guaranteed. It's based on performance.
I feel very scared what would happen if I don't get the PPO. Apart from that, I feel shy asking help from seniors because
a) They are super busy. Always on meetings
b) I feel they would think I'm stupid for asking silly doubts

Even no proper KTs have been given. It's like F around and figure out.

Please advice me how to actually come out of this situation. This is my first corporate experience and I feel worried and scared each day

Need some genuine advice

Hey, 

I am a SWE with 2 yrs exp. recently I found out that juniors in my team are being paid atleast 10% more than me. This thing has been bugging me so much that I setup a meeting with my manager but here’s the thing- I have no idea how to talk about this to my manager. I obviously think it’s unfair given how much more work I am doing. 
Can experienced people here please guide me on how to approach this meeting?

Thanks!

Junior coworker getting paid more than me.

Software Engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

For me age is genuinely just a number. And work is worship. Yet, having people who are often my age or sometimes 10-20 years older than me reporting to me - becomes a discussion. Why is “age” even a discussion if one has proved their merit and mettle?

In a country with a growing young population, we have some randomly contrasting values. 

Of course, basic respect for all is just a fundamental in the team’s culture. 

Do you think an employee should “respect” another employee just by the virtue of age?

Ageism at workplace?

Growth Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Hey everyone,
Hope it's going well. 

What this post is: a place to hang around and chat just about anything - without having a specific topic to discuss.  
Think of it like the watercooler at your office.  
 
Look forward to hearing from you all :)

Daily Watercooler (5th July)

Need guidance -
I have joined a company in Nov-22. I am performing really well and hence, my managers (both onshore and offshore) are very happy with my performance.

Recently, my manager (and us 3 reporting to her) have been put under a Sr. Manager.
The dynamics have been difficult between my Manager and the Sr. Manager.
Now, my rapport is good with both of them (as this is being supported by my positive feedback from multiple projects and BU owners).

As I am connected with my manager (who keeps it with herself) a bit more as compared to the Sr Manager (who is very outspoken and clearly shares the issues he has with her approach).

I know and understand very well that I might just be a spawn for both of them in case of unforeseen issues.

Could you all please guide me how to manage the connection with both?

I have been thinking about focusing on my job and keeping "close distance" with both. Would this help? Or based on your experiences, is there any other approach that I should explore?
Please provide your guidance.

Need guidance

I work for a early stage startup (A) right now since about 1.5yrs at base 18lpa (no appraisal since my tenure even though I was told they have a bi-annual cycle, but It never happened)

I have another company (B), willing to offer base 28lpa (but will require relocation). 

I still haven't interviewed at B, and was wondering if i can should talk to A asking for an appraisal? I'm also not sure if i should mention about B at all. 

How much i understand A will be like let us launch something and then we can talk about appraisals, but this has been going on since a year now and we tend to change the architecture or the methodology everytime we almost have something ready to ship. 


That being said still I'd rather stay at A than relocate for B at the moment. 

How should I go about this, any suggestions? TIA

How should I ask for a raise?

Hey Viners, would like to know your prespective on the situation that if you face a bunch of incompetent colleagues who dont take their work seriously and the manager constantly asks you to maintain quality because of your seniority and you end up cleaning their work, how do you handle it ?

Few Incompetent colleagues

Hi all, I have noticed that the experienced senior people around me [ ICs, EMs, etc ] have too much work and they are always in a work mode. 

Seeing them makes me wonder whether I would want to be like them in the future.

All the senior experienced people here, how stressful / hectic / difficult is your work life as you move up the corporate ladder? 

Is it even worth it to chase meaningless numbers, and promotions, and grow up the career ladder?

Work life at senior positions

One of my colleagues makes more money than me and also some other folks in the company. 
He's kind of a junior to us but making more than us. 

I know I shouldn't get bothered about this but it's easier to say than adopt that thinking. 

How do you folks deal with these kinds of things? 

[ Before someone says he might be good at the job I am working with them so I know he's pretty average. ]

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