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Mind your own business.
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Take care of every aspect of your own job before you give time to noticing what someone else is, or is not, doing.
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Never initiate or perpetuate gossip of any kind.
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Tell the truth.
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Apologize when necessary and try to learn from your mistakes.
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Get “you need” and “you must” and “you should” out of your vocabulary when you are talking to adults.
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Stand up to your boss if he or she is asking you to do something unethical or immoral.
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Thank and affirm people who are doing a good job in a manner that gets the person the greatest amount of positive exposure.
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Don’t use your work time, the phone, the copier, or the Internet for personal matters.
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Realize you are at work to work. You are not there to find a partner, to make friends, or to ease your loneliness. You are there to feed and support your family and to further the goals of the organization that employs you.
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