Workplace Advice

Here are a few more pieces of workplace advice:

• Arrive a little early. Stay a little late.
• Never make excuses.
• Don't interrupt people.
• Choose not to attend every argument to which you are invited.
• If you smoke, quit.
• Never borrow or lend money to workmates.
• Eliminate "can't" from your vocabulary.
• Return phone calls, texts, and e-mails within 24 hours.
• Confirm appointments.
• Never disclose confidences.
• Stay out of office politics.
• Avoid office romances.
• Say "Please," "thank you," and "pardon me" often.
• Use your best manners at meals.
• Don't take things, even little things, from work. It's stealing.
• Be especially kind to people beneath you in the company's pecking order. Notice them and speak to them.
• Smile a lot.