Basic Work Etiquette
When you have just entered the corporate culture and have never been to a corporate training it can be understandable that you might not know office etiquette, however there are a number of experienced workers who do not follow etiquette or who simply never learned it. Here are two of the most often broken rules that you should be expected to know before anyone will look at moving you up the corporate ladder.
When someone said that time is money , they meant it. When you are five minutes late it can hurt the company a lot. If you work at a place that starts at eight, has break at 10:30, returns at 10:45, Lunch is 12-1, another break from 3-3:15 and you finally get off at five, if you are five minutes late getting to work, and take off for break five minutes early, and return five minutes late, same for lunch and the other break, and even leave work five minutes early, that is forty minutes a day you are not at work when you are supposed to be. (If you don’t have those two extra paid break times, it is still 20 minutes a day, or an hour a week) If you are paid ten dollars an hour that is $6 a day. If every employee did that you can probably see how that would add up very quickly. Respect your employer’s time by showing up for work early, and only spending the amount of time you are allowed on breaks and at lunch.
The internet should be used only when it is absolutely needed. Many people get fired either for things that are posted to social networking sites like Facebook , or because they are on the internet for non-business related things. There are some companies where you will need to be on the internet all the time, and will often need to be on social networking sites, blog sites and many other types of sites. With the exception of the time that you are at lunch, your usage of the internet should only be for things that are work related.
These two things might not get you noticed for a leadership position, but you will never get sent to leadership development training if you are not following these basic rules.
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