Running Career Advice - General

[Ken PE 3.1]

20) clipping nails is a home activity.

 

[Dleg]

4. Always ask who is on the line when you talk to someone through a conference call, and ask whether or not you're on speaker phone.

21. Always assume that you are on speaker phone, and someone else is listening in who has not been identified.

 

[Dleg]

22. Don't talk trash about people. Anyone. (easy to say, hard to do, but you can never go wrong if you follow this one)

 

[matt267 PE]

23. Your government regulators are always right.

 

[Dleg]

^I take that in the same sense as "the customer is always right". Which means that it is not true, but it might as well be.

 

[Supe]

24. If you are planning on leaving work an hour early to beat the inclement weather, so is everyone else in the entire county.

 

[Jonhnny123]

25. Be selfish and don't (fully) depend on anyone else. Nobody is going to have your interests in mind more than you.

If there is an opportunity that you're interested in, you have to pursue it. If someone promised to do something for you, follow up with them. Don't assume that they'll just remember to do it. it may be importatnt to you, but to them it's just another task they have to remember.

 

[ALBin517]

26. Be friendly with subordinates but don't be friends.

 

[ATL Derek]

27. Do what you say you are going to do.

 

[Mike in Gastonia]

10. If you are preparing a risky or possibly volatile e-mail, DO NOT put any names in the To and Cc lines until you are absolutely sure you want to do it.

Or better yet - save it as a draft and sleep on it overnight. I almost always go back the next day and tone it down......

 

[Supe]

28. Don't let your contractors work non-standard work hours.

 

[envirotex]

10. If you are preparing a risky or possibly volatile e-mail, DO NOT put any names in the To and Cc lines until you are absolutely sure you want to do it.

Or better yet - save it as a draft and sleep on it overnight. I almost always go back the next day and tone it down......

Same goes for reports finished at COB...A final review after a few hours is always better.

 

[envirotex]

16) it's okay to say "I don't know.

And never ever eat the last donut.

And don't cut the last donut in half and leave the remains on the break table all day...

 

[Road Guy]

34- Always delete the email string...

 

[Supe]

35 - When deleting the e-mail string, also delete the "Re:" or "Fw:" at the start of the subject line...

 

[Ken PE 3.1]

36. Pass the PE.

 

[knight1fox3]

37. When at first you do not succeed, review those lessons learned and try again.

 

[Road Guy]

38. Don't be "Facebook" friends with anyone you currently work with.

 

[matt267 PE]

39. Don't have Facebook.

 

[Ken PE 3.1]

40. Or Twitter.