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Tell me of a time where you had a conflict with someone you worked with.

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Maranda Hopkins

Rising Star

When I was a teenager I worked with some schoolmates and my best friend at a fast food restaurant. The owners daughter was just a couple of years older than my best friend and I so we knew each other outside of work. Since this girl was the owners daughter, she thought that she could bully other workers, but I do not like bullies so she and I clashed a lot of times

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Michelle Hoilett

Rising Star

I can't recall having a conflict with a coworker but if there's a disagreement of some sort, my approach would be to listen to the parties involved and try to work out the best way forward.

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Courtney Miller

Rising Star

In a previous role, I was 18 working as a jailer/dispatcher where my co-workers were all in their 50's or 60's. There was conflict every shift due to the fact they didn't like someone younger working the same job as them so unfortunately a year later I decided to resign due mostly to it conflicting with university but also because I never felt welcome in the workplace.

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Madison Geris

Logistics Specialist

It may be "unprofessional" to say but I tend to have a good bit of conflict in every job I work. I am an aggressive person and very outspoken especially when it's a passion project. In most cases we address the conflict and work together to resolve any issues. Generally my conflict isn't on a personal level it tend to be a difference of opinion in how to accomplish a task in the fastest and best manner.

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Micaiah Fong

Rising Star

I had a client who was working with another personal trainer try and train with me. We are not supposed to “steal” each other’s clients so I went to the other trainer and explained the situation. We were able to figure it out and are good friends.

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Erica Gordon

Rising Star

I found out one of my co-workers (the same one that trained me) was stealing money from the company. I had to investigate it on my own until I was sure that was the case because I would have felt horrible if I was wrong. Turned out I was right and confronted her. She denied it so I took it to the boss. She was fired but I felt awful doing that! It was the right thing but it hurt my heart.

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Alexandra Mackey

Rising Star

I was a dedicated employee for a company I had worked for 4-5 years and left after they handled a racial/homophobic incident very poorly. I fought hard and long to get them to take it seriously but at the end of the day they didn’t. I decided I was more important and there were groups as lovely as this one that could provide the support I needed to do things on my own. My advice, if you aren’t appreciate or at the very least respected where you work, it’s time to move on to better (:

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Adrianne Ngo

Project Manager

I've never came across anyone that I had conflict with. However, I feel the same rules apply with communication and understanding within both parties in order to resolve any kind of issues in any circumstance.

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Alison Bennett

Rising Star

I had a cross-functional leader terrorize my experience by her negativity towards change and unwillingness to adapt. A leader with notoriety for being extremely difficult and calculated, gaslighting and unaccountable for her actions. I let my patience, work ethic and unwillingness to let the negativity get to me be the drive to deliver great product. The record sales growth numbers spoke for themselves.

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Tracey Mancini

Rising Star

I recently left two jobs that I loved very much, however, due to a co-worker's ego, I felt it was better to leave and take the chance to start my own business and not dread going to work every day. I will always have the relationships with the people I worked with.

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Jacquelyn Domolewski

Rising Star

We were attempting to move a few things from one office to another, we had received all the proper green lights to go ahead with the transfer. The receiving office called very upset that they were getting more work to do and that we "can't just dump things on them, just because we don't want to do it". I let the person talk for a moment, I expressed that I understand that it is more work for them to do, and for that I was sorry. I then went on to explain that it was a decision that was made above and beyond our stations and that this needed to be done according to policies. I explained that if she had further frustrations that she could bring it up to that office managers directly, instead of yelling at staff that are just following memo's and policies.

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Janelle Teng

Rising Star

I once worked with a product manager who owned a tool that directly impacted my daily work and that of my sales team. We didn't always see eye-to-eye, especially as I was hyper-focused on the needs of my stakeholders. Eventually, I built up our relationship over time, attending the PM's office hours regularly, and providing feedback consistently so it was clear I was serious, but understood that a larger timeline was in play. I grew more and more satisfied with the product enhancements as well, and the more I showed up, the more I felt like we understood each other.

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