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Career Advice: Rude People Foul The Nest At Work
Article by Ramon Greenwood
Building a successful career is no walk in the park. Competition is fierce. Pressure and stress are always lurking around, ready to make things more difficult. Tempers get frayed.Good manners are often overlooked in this environment. It doesn't take a career coach to know that rude people foul the nest for everyone. By the same token those who are civil and considerate in the work place have a leg up on the competition. Here are some examples of rudeness one often encounters on the job.
Bad Telephone Manners
One of my clients for career advice declared: "One of the rudest, most irritating case of bad manners is when a co-worker stands in the doorway of my office, while I'm on the telephone, and expects me to read his lips or decipher his hand signals. Then when he walks away, I have no idea what he was trying to communicate; and I have lost the train of thought I had with the client on the line.
"For all I know, the client on the phone could have threatened to fire us or my co-worker might have been telling me the building is being evacuated."
Another example: You are a guest in another person's office when your host constantly interrupts your discussion to take telephone calls.The lack of consideration is compounded when your host assures, "This will only take a minute," and then chatters on for ten times that long, including an update on his golf score. You are left sitting, pretending you are not listening to what is being said.What about the times you answer the telephone and your caller's secretary says, "Please hold for Mr. Jones. He will be with you in a moment." Five minutes later, you are still holding the line. This can be particularly annoying when the caller wants to sell you something.
No less irritating is the secretary who demands to know who you are and what you want before she will put you through to her boss
Bad manners on cell-phones are too numerous to even begin to list.
Bad-mannered Bosses
Bosses can be among the rudest and most inconsiderate people in the workplace.
For example, your boss asks you to come to his office at 9 o'clock. He wants a status report on your top-priority project. You arrive at 8:57 sharp because you don't want to keep him waiting. His secretary informs you he is running a few minutes behind schedule.
"Just have a seat," she days. "He will be with you shortly."
At 9:45, she reassures you that Mr. Big is about ready. At 10:15, you are ushered in to see him.
"I only have about 15 minutes until my next meeting," he says. "Just give me an abbreviated version of your report?"
More Rudeness
Another chronic breach of etiquette has to do with late arrivals at meetings. How often do you drop everything else to get to the session on time, only to have to wait for two or three of the other participants to show up? Sometimes they have to be called and reminded that the group is waiting. When they do come in, it is with little more than a flip, "Sorry, guys, I got tied up on the 'phone. You know Pete, you can't get him off the line."Common courtesy is ignored at meetings when there are several side conversations going on at the same time someone is making a presentation.
What about the boss who takes the occasion of a staff meeting to chew out to a subordinate? Bad manners plus.
And, by the way, whatever happened the common courtesies of "Please" and Thank you"
3 Steps To Minimize Damage
Here are three steps you can to minimize the negative impact of rudeness and help build a successful career.
1. Practice good manners. Set an example.
2. Accept the fact that there will always be rude people who would disrupt your career if you let them. Consider the source and then ignore these people.
3. If the rudeness is more than you can tolerate, speak up. Go into your more diplomatic mode and tell the person involved that you find their rude practices to be disruptive to your best effort to do your job.
I can't promises you this career advice will put a stop to rudeness, but you will feel better in made a common sense effort to deal with it.
To subscribe to Ramon Greenwood's free semi-monthly newsletter and blog please go to http://www.commonsenseatwork.com> His advice comes from a world of experience, including serving as Senior Vice President of American Express, an entrepreneur, professional director, career coach and author.
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Question by HRC Member: Is it inappropriate to ask the president of your company for career advice?
I am working full time, going to school full time, and raising my family.
The president of our company started out as a secretary and worked her wayh to the top by doing the same thing.
I would like to talk to her since..well...she IS a woman and she is the most successful person in the company.
Would it be inappropriate to ask her for some advice? I am the first person in my family to go to college, so I do not have the luxury of guidance from home.
Any opinions on this one?
Thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by ghostscouldnevercatchyou
i think she would be flattered and would encourage you indeveloping your career.
give it a shot. i say.
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Question by whoknew?!?!: I am considering a career in Teaching, any advice?
I am considering getting my bachelor's degree for education. I have no idea what I may be getting myself into with a teaching career. Any advice? Suggested electives?
Best answer:
Answer by Bill
It is important and descent job
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Question by Gerrardo: Help me with career advice please?
I want to be an Architect, but many people constantly telling me that it is a difficult career choice and the money is very low. I heard that it takes 5 years B.Arch+ 3 masters+1 year doctrine and in 3 years you can get your license. Why they are getting paid so low? Please tell me how much money I can expect as an Architect? If there any Architects or people who know??
I don't want to design people's houses or any buildings and live in apartment whole my life! Thank You.
Best answer:
Answer by Ron Diego
Just forget about what other people are telling you. If you want to be an architect, so be it. Set your goal and stick to it. Not everyone can be an I. M. Pei or Buck Fuller or Frank Gehry but there are plenty of good jobs in architecture and design.
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Question by Megzii3: Career advice: What kind of job allows me to interview clients for employment in a business?
Hello,
I am trying to find my future career and I want it to involve any or some of these things:
1. Interviewing clients for a company and choosing the best people to be employed.
2. Finding jobs for people
Let me know the name of the job or any businesses that do one of these things.
Thanks heaps 
Best answer:
Answer by prod_v
mode-1
for ex.. If you want to be someone who has a trust from the certain type of company "lets say you are the head of the human resources in x company and you r reviewing the resumes and picking up people for the x" you can interview people for their jobs..
mode-2
you can also be a job agent to find jobs for people.. But overall these two things won't help the economy, "or eventually, anyone else" cause you won't create anything "you won't produce anything".. and your roll won't be significant enough even if you hire 100 people a day..
mode-3
therefore to follow your incentives and have productive result you can jump to another mode and create a job for yourself "start your firm, organization .. etc.." in that mode of acting you will be hiring people and interviewing them for your own business..
3rd one is the best mode but one would need a huge emotional motivation to complete that "besides being nice and helpful which is not a true motivation" ... and something like an idea that really occupies ones mind from teenage years..
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Question by Kate: Where can I get career advice from?
I'm in uk and most of the places like pertemps don't help. Where can I get career advice. I have left uni.
Best answer:
Answer by octogen
You do not give information about the subject matter. What you were studying. The best place in the UK is either your uni adviser if you can go back there for information,or they have officers at the Job centres especially trained for that purpose. You can arrange a personal interview at most of them, and you will find them a great help.
I wish you good luck in your search.
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