Have you ever had a manager take a project from a colleague who couldn’t finish it and hand it to you instead? It can be such an awkward moment. You feel bad because you know it might be tough for them, but at the same time you still need to step in and get the work done. How do you usually handle that kind of situation in a respectful way while keeping things professional with your colleague? Curious how others approach it.

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It really depends on if that person was removed because of a personality conflict or just couldn’t figure out or… wasn’t doing their j job. Throwing the not doing their job. I agree with the first comment to mention time as long as the person is on another project… if not then have a list of what you will need to start and keep to the list. Hopefully you will receive what they have done

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I only had that happen once. I got around the awkwardness by acting like the other person had been too busy to deal with it. It was obvious that they had been struggling, but there was no point in rubbing their nose in it.

That’s a classy way to handle it. Framing it as a bandwidth thing probably made it a lot less uncomfortable for everyone!

This literally just happened to me. So strange to see it mentioned here.

LOL curious how did you handle it?

Ya, it’s weird.

Yep this same thing happened to me recently. It is honestly frustrating though because they are getting paid to do something that they can't even finish. I just put my head down and get the work done. That is all you really can do.

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