Handling workplace conflicts
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Is a colleague giving you the cold shoulder? Tension in conversations or impatient facial expressions can signal underlying unhappiness and make your work life tricky. Find out what may be behind the shift in behaviour and how you can successfully navigate these situations in Tay Hong Yi’s latest askST Jobs column.
My colleague Denise Chong points out another tricky situation: holding up the lunchtime queue because your e-wallet fails and you have no cash. Going cashless is great, until we run into snags like outages, dead batteries, and no mobile signal. She explains why she hopes a variety of payment options will stick around for a while longer.
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Until next time!
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