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Category: Office EtiquetteBy anthony balderrama on Aug 2, 2010 in Featured, News, Office Etiquette | 1,180 Comments
One of the first realizations many professionals have early in their careers is the divide between personal preferences and the workplace reality. You don’t have to be a genius or even moderately intelligent to quickly realize that you’re an employee when on the clock. You don’t get to do whatever you want. The company tells [...]
By anthony balderrama on Jul 26, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Office Etiquette | 18 Comments
The he-said-she-said-I-heard-don’t-tell-anybody rumor mill thrives in any workplace. You can be a registered nurse, an attorney, a foreman or a teacher, and you come across information that no one else knows. Is it news? Is it gossip? The textbook correct way to handle this information is to keep it to yourself. If what you found [...]
By Kaitlin Madden on Jul 23, 2010 in Dress Code, Featured, Office Etiquette | 10 Comments
A couple of weeks ago we told you about a survey that found over half of female respondents felt more productive at work when dressed provocatively. Now, according to a different survey, it’s apparent that employers don’t agree. The poll, conducted by UK law firm DWF, found that employers overwhelmingly feel that dress codes are [...]
By Kaitlin Madden on Jul 16, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Office Etiquette | 14 Comments
At first glance, communication can seem pretty easy. You started doing it when you were born, and you’ve been doing it every day since … how can you not be awesome at it, right? Well, as it turns out, effective communication is a surprisingly fickle beast. It’s also a highly underestimated business tool. Done right, [...]
By anthony balderrama on Jul 15, 2010 in Featured, Office Etiquette, Work | 6 Comments
Workplaces often get described as a battle of good and evil. A demanding boss or a jealous co-worker who make your professional existence miserable. These people are actively harming you, and your career can suffer because of them. Yet, not all co-workers who get on your nerves are bad people. These colleagues are often nice [...]
By anthony balderrama on Apr 16, 2010 in Featured, Office Etiquette, Work | 17 Comments
Two excellent blogs (Lifehacker and Boing Boing) I often read posted this video clip of Jason Fried, the co-founder of 37signals. On the surface it’s a pretty lame starting point for a blog post, I admit–a guy talks into a camera for six minutes. However, the video’s worth watching because Fried suggests that IM, e-mail [...]
By anthony balderrama on Mar 26, 2010 in Featured, Office Etiquette, Work/Life | 16 Comments
This week’s winning question about co-workers comes from TJ. She or he submitted the following question to our Talk to the Work Buzz! Contest. What is the best way to decline a co-worker’s social networking request? The awkward thanks-but-no-thanks answer to any request in the professional world is always peculiar. Do you really want to order [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Jan 26, 2010 in Featured, Office Etiquette, Work/Life | 3 Comments
How many times a day do you say to yourself, “I like what I do, but not where I work?” Or the opposite, “I like where I work, but not what I do?” The current economy has kept many employees stationed for the past couple of years, not because they love what they do — [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 19, 2009 in Featured, Fun stuff, Interviews, Office Etiquette | 11 Comments
We’ve all had embarrassing moments. (I’m going to keep it professional and not share mine with you here, but I assure you, it’s one for the books.) Anyway, as I was saying, we’ve all had embarrassing moments. For some people, it unfortunately happened in the worst place possible: the interview. If you’re sick of recounting [...]
By anthony balderrama on Nov 10, 2009 in Career Advice, Featured, Office Etiquette | 14 Comments
If you’ve read our posts before, you know we encourage workers to make tactful departures. We also encourage workers to be direct with their bosses and be confident in their abilities. Now, what happens when these two situations converge? You get a memo dripping in red ink.
