The Unspoken rules of civility at workplace.

The unspoken rules of civility at workplace

A prairie dog is cute in wild, not in office.

What is prairie dogging? It's when someone stands up and tosses something to a person a few desks or cubes over/pokes his head out of his cubicle to survey the environment and press over the wall of someone's cubicle. In office, this behavior is pretty annoying. Even if the walls are low enough to gaze over, go around to the opening and treat it as a doorway. Check if it is a good time to speak to your co-worker instead of simply barging in and blabbering away. If your co-worker is talking to someone else or is in deep thought, don't try to get his or her attention at that moment. Try to catch up later. If the matter is urgent, either drop a note on his/her desk or send an e-mail or a chat message. 

Silent zones aren't just for hospitals!!!

NO, you aren't expected to whisper but just speak in a low voice so that you won't disturb people who are working around you. Understand that every individual needs to pay full attention to the task in front of them to perform at their full capacity. Contact your neighbour by walking up to them, sending an e-mail or calling them on the office landline. Yelling from your desk asking, "Mr. ABC, is the report ready?" is simply jarring.

  Handle your smartphone smartly.

Phones are hard to ignore. They connect us to friends and family and are important for work too. Playing game at your desks with sounds coming from your phone is unacceptable. Also you may be a music lover, but that doesn't mean you sing along to your favorite tunes or listen to your computer in a loud voice. Use headphones. Moreover, keep your phone on 'silent' or 'vibrate' mode; you certainly don't want to be a nuisance to your co-workers. Be courteous.

Everything you see isn't public property.

Walking into momentarily vacant cubicle and picking up whatever you want to as if it's your property is a strict no-no. Just because the item is lying in the open or the colleague is friendly and doesn't mind so you can walk away with it!! It is an invasion to one's privacy. Even if the stapler is owned by the company, you need to ask for it each time you need it. Also let the owner know the can expect to get it back, and return it before time. This way, your colleague will be happy to lend you whatever you may need in future.

Is being nice is same as being a loser?

ARE NICE PEOPLE LOSERS ?

Who  says to be good is to be a victim of pushover?  Today goodness is adaptive niether absolute, nor inflexible.

Closing your eyes to politics dosen't make you any nicer than you already are. In fact, it gives you an element of naivety and foolishness. The same goes for corruption or the many other evils that are an undesired part of everyday life. When dishonesty is rampant, inhabiting an island of honesty may give you a feeling of superiority, but it certainty doesn't take your stakes any higher.

Rather than siting in soitary moral splendour, it is better to be aware of the games being played around you. This gives you a fair chance of not falling prey to the same, or even better, to try and outsmart the players around you.

With this, you become a player too, albeit a nice one.

the idea is not to partake in the nasty politiciking, but at least, to be aware of how it operates, and to avoid the traps it lays for you. Identify the quaters that target you or your work and fortify your defences against these. When you live in a sea of evil, it would be foolish to pretend  that you can avoid getting wet. Short of actually participating in what goes against your grain, at least, know enough to save yourselves from drowning.

Smart people know how to push right buttons. Just doing your work well and hoping for the fruits of labour to fall into your lap would be unrealistic in the environment we inhibit. In an age of uncertain ethics, where anything goes in the name of success and fame, dharma and the concept of right and wrong at best elusive and far-flung notations. These are not fair or right decisions anymore; it is more pragmatic wrld, where what works, works. And yet you need to be good, and smartly so! So after you finish your task, you do need to crow about it to bring it to notice of the right people and to make the effort of marketting yourself smartly.

In such a scenario, it is critical that you know the right buttons to push even after you are finished with the good work. You hase to splash yourself against it consciousness to be more than a sppeck on its surface.

Each of us has a moral choice and an independent will to asset it. you choose whether you wish to choose the good or the bad, for we have both within us. To be nice is to be boring and left behind the race. But the opposit of nice is an acceptable option. Who would make a conscious decision to be deliberity bad? So the option lef to us is to be niether good nor bad; we need to make a smart choice that allows us to adopt goodnes, and yet be smart enough to escape the effects of evil.

The good and bad all live within us ..... our free choice determines the direction we wish to sway towards. the difference is that along with goodness, comes a responsibility for the bad around you. Closing your eyes to evil is as good as accepting that it has a right to exit.

Blaming others for what befalls you, and in some cases, the bad that hits you repeatedly, is not an option. It just perpituates the problem. Losers never take the responsibility ; winners take responsibility not just for what happens to them, but also for what happens around them. These are ones who the have the gumption and awareness to change th world.