Office Habits Review

You may be working in a company for a long time already. In fact, you may have started as a rank and file staff working one of those IT jobs or sales jobs, and have gone up the ladder. Whether you’re the manager or the director, some office rules, albeit unwritten, should be followed. Here are some of them:

•    Don’t swear in the office. Regardless of whether you run a pretty young team, or you have a mix of the baby boomers and the Gen Y kids, it is very unprofessional to curse in the office. Moreover, you might end up offending others. Use your grandmother as a peg for how you would speak in the office. Be respectful, use the right words, and don’t use terms that your grandma will not understand. Steer away from slang terms. Your boss isn’t your “dude” for crying out loud.

•    Don’t complain. If you need to, vent out by talking with your closest office buddy (not buddies, so as to lessen the negative vibes spreading from you). Maintain a positive attitude all throughout the day. And while it is true that sometimes things do not work out right for us, there is never an excuse for slacking just because you don’t feel good. A grumbling employee is very difficult to be with, and could be perceived as somebody who’s out to destroy the company with his words.

•    Don’t play games. Whether it’s a game on your cell phone or on Facebook, it shouldn’t be accessed when you’re at work, most especially using your office computer. Okay, it’s fine to play a quick game of minesweeper after completing a long report, but if it takes up a lot of your time to the point that you’re missing out on other important tasks, then it needs to be cut off.

•    Dress properly. There might be no dress code in the office, but that does not mean that you can wear a top with plunging neckline. This is a very basic rule that a lot of employees seem to not know of, or simply neglect. There is a reason why there are dress codes, albeit some of which are unwritten, and that is to uphold professionalism in a company. And don’t start on freedom of expression. If you want to have something like that, you should’ve started your own business where you won’t mind your employees wearing nothing but tattoos.

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