Rules for work

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Never ever shag your boss

Never shag a co-worker

Don’t work too hard in a subsidiary position to try and prove yourself - because you’ll be kept there

Try not to go to Christmas parties. Someone always drinks too much & makes a tit of themselves, & it might be you.

Never slag off your boss/colleagues to anyone else; you never know where people’s allegiances lie

What are your workplace survival tips?!!

WFH

Don't trust your workplace 'friends'. They'll tread on you to help them climb the ladder.

When you experience discrimination, report it. Don't give people the benefit of the doubt.

When you're promised a pay review/rise, get it in writing.

Be a decent human being. Or a surgeon

What's a subsidiary position?

Never shag a co-worker

If I’d taken this advice I wouldn’t have got together with my now DH

@TorySteller

Never shag a co-worker

If I’d taken this advice I wouldn’t have got together with my now DH

Same here.

Not going to do can be seen as not a team player. Go to do but 2 drinks max.

Don’t slag off ex colleagues/employer. It’s often a very small world.

Don’t microwave fish/ eat noisy or smelly food at desk.

There is a whole book on this by Richard Templar. Most of the advice here is reflected in it. A good read, have a google.

Don't eat at your desk.

Don't stink the whole place out with your lunch.

Don't hum, whistle or sing nonsense. It's very off-putting

Don't buy a new guitar on your lunch break and sit trying to tune it/play it at your desk for a bulk of the afternoon to the point where the MD comes and physically takes it off you

Don't make sexist/racist/homophobic comments .... like telling a nearly 30 year old woman who is TTC that women over 30 shouldn't have babies and that women in general ruined the workforce.

Don't ask a co-worker if her husband will donate sperm for them to have a baby.

Don't eat at your desk.

Where else are you supposed to eat if you don't have a staff room?

@Pythonista

Don't eat at your desk.

Where else are you supposed to eat if you don't have a staff room?

Hmm, good question. I don't think I've ever worked somewhere without a staff room/breakout area/canteen...

The first two rules would mean I'd never have got together with, and married, my husband.

No unpaid overtime. You're making a rid for your own back and might be stopping bosses needing to recruit another member of staff.

Don't rely on colleagues for all your social life even if you get on great. Keep some distance.

All the op is sage advice.

Dont get drunk with your work mates

If you want to do something, ask yourself: would it be ok if everybody did this?

Disagree on not going to the Xmas do. Depends on the industry but in mine the ones who do well go to all the socialising / networking events

Don't be a pushover.

@FrazzledY9Parent

If you want to do something, ask yourself: would it be ok if everybody did this?

What does this mean / relate to?

Mine are:

Always appear calm and unphased.

Hmm, good question. I don't think I've ever worked somewhere without a staff room/breakout area/canteen...

I have never worked in an office with any facilities like that. Only a tiny kitchen area with kettle, toaster and sometimes a microwave. You have to eat at your desk

@Pythonista

Hmm, good question. I don't think I've ever worked somewhere without a staff room/breakout area/canteen...

I have never worked in an office with any facilities like that. Only a tiny kitchen area with kettle, toaster and sometimes a microwave. You have to eat at your desk

Okay, I'll revise my 'rule'. Don't eat at your desk if there are other, appropriate places to eat.

Good list to start with op

I learned your no 5 very much the hard way via a manipulative colleague I had once when I was much younger and more naive

I'll add -

NO job/pay cheque is worth risking your health - physical or mental

Learn to strike a balance between "never volunteer/that's not my job" and being "indispensable" and everyone's mug, put effort in but say no sometimes too.

Report health and safety breaches the first time they occur