advice to the young man sitting up and to my right:

[justalurkr]

To keep your job: your personal convenience is secondary.
To get ahead: your personal convenience isn't a topic for conversation.

To keep your job: you are punctual, dressed for the occasion, hard working and uncomplaining.
To get ahead: you don't act as if doing any of that is anything special.

To keep your job: remember that your boss, no matter how unimpressive or boneheaded, remains your boss.
To get ahead: your job is to make your boss look good.

To keep your job: imagine everything you say or commit to writing being repeated in a court of law and govern yourself accordingly.
To get ahead: now imagine your mother (or other person whose good opinion you value) is there to hear it all.

To keep your job: the "least" you can get away with is more than anyone else is doing.
To get ahead: the least you can get away with is consistently more than expected.

Lastly, keeping hulu.com up at your desk all day isn't conducive to keeping your job.

Comments

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

Truer words were never spoken. The group I'm currently contracting with would benefit from readnig this. But it would be too passive-aggressive to post it.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

You notice how I'm posting it somewhere he'll never see it? I remember being his age and making a few mistakes on that list. We didn't have hulu yet, or I might have made that one, too.

(sigh) We didn't take these kids to raise.

[lunachickk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we fired someone for that too.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I am boggled at the nerve people possess to keep this stuff up in plain view. If you're not confining it to authorized breaks, for pity's sake at least hide it!