Things you know from your jobs/experiences that others might not know.

[supa!]

ALWAYS clear naughty pictures of your phone/laptop before handing it in for a service.  People DO look.

 

Websites are also ridiculously overpriced vs time spent building them.

[The Don]

Always show initiative. If there's nothing at a job to do, sweep... Or at least master the art of looking busy. You'll look better to management and the customers. Not to mention your day will go by quicker.

[Aero]

Don't keep taking on extra work without getting some sort of additional gain from it. otherwise you'll be over worked, under paid and wont actually be appreciated. it doesnt always have to be financial gain, and i'm not suggesting you constantly be a dick about any extra work you do, just don't roll over and agree to do everything all the time.

[Spyder78]

Don't keep taking on extra work without getting some sort of additional gain from it. otherwise you'll be over worked, under paid and wont actually be appreciated. it doesnt always have to be financial gain, and i'm not suggesting you constantly be a dick about any extra work you do, just don't roll over and agree to do everything all the time.

 

This so much fucking this it's so fucking true...

[McLeod]

 

Don't keep taking on extra work without getting some sort of additional gain from it. otherwise you'll be over worked, under paid and wont actually be appreciated. it doesnt always have to be financial gain, and i'm not suggesting you constantly be a dick about any extra work you do, just don't roll over and agree to do everything all the time.

 

This so much fucking this it's so fucking true...

 

[Spyder78]

Going above and beyond for any job is not worth it and you end up looking like an idiot for your efforts in the end. Sorry forgot I have to elaborate for some

[McLeod]

Going above and beyond for any job is not worth it and you end up looking like an idiot for your efforts in the end. Sorry forgot I have to elaborate for some

I was just talking about how poorly you typed what you said

[Spyder78]

 

Going above and beyond for any job is not worth it and you end up looking like an idiot for your efforts in the end. Sorry forgot I have to elaborate for some

I was just talking about how poorly you typed what you said

 

 

 

So now everyones giving shit about poor typing since I've been gone, well that's a step up over those damn Grammar Nazi's I guess

[McLeod]

 

 

Going above and beyond for any job is not worth it and you end up looking like an idiot for your efforts in the end. Sorry forgot I have to elaborate for some

I was just talking about how poorly you typed what you said

 

 

 

So now everyones giving shit about poor typing since I've been gone, well that's a step up over those damn Grammar Nazi's I guess

 

It's not being a Grammar Nazi when it's typed so poorly that out of context it wouldn't make any sense

[Spyder78]

 

 

 

Going above and beyond for any job is not worth it and you end up looking like an idiot for your efforts in the end. Sorry forgot I have to elaborate for some

I was just talking about how poorly you typed what you said

 

 

 

So now everyones giving shit about poor typing since I've been gone, well that's a step up over those damn Grammar Nazi's I guess

 

It's not being a Grammar Nazi when it's typed so poorly that out of context it wouldn't make any sense

 

 

I said it was a step up, not that you are being a Grammar Nazi, which would make you a Sentence Stalin if you wanna put a title too it.  Even poorly type it makes sense that I was clearly agreeing with Aero even as badly typed as it is.  It's not in the board rules that posts have to be typed correctly and words spelled right, shit happens oh well

[Aero]

Made perfect sense to me... I'd maybe have put an apostrophe in after the first word, but it still made sense.

[BrokenDreams23]

Always be prepared to join the "inner circle" or risk being demoted or even fired..........at least at Walmart, it pays to kiss up to the departmental manager, who then kisses up to the main manager.

 

Neither of whom I kissed up to & now as a result, I've been "red flagged" to never be hired there again.

Edited August 31, 2014 by BrokenDreams23

[fufu ÷]

office work sucks if it's a quiet office.

being a social media networker is about as unsociable a job as there is.

[Spyder78]

Made perfect sense to me... I'd maybe have put an apostrophe in after the first word, but it still made sense.

 

 

Thanks 

[jitz]

The less you know, the higher you go.

[Aero]

"You rise to the level of your incompetence"

[Muur]

You don't get paid for the first week and maybe more for others. 

[jitz]

What? No the rule is never work for free, if you don't value your time, who will? I won't work for half an hour if I'm not being paid for it.

 

The only reason to not get paid is because you've signed up for an internship. And the only you would do one of those is for a major company you really want to work for, or a job in the media. Don't let business owners scam you and take advantage of you.

[supa!]

Be VERYYYYYYYYYYY careful about combining personal and business life - this could be dating a coworker, vouching for a mate to get a job or even having a personal friend as a client.

 

Things tends to go sour extremely quickly....

[Muur]

What? No the rule is never work for free, if you don't value your time, who will? I won't work for half an hour if I'm not being paid for it.

 

The only reason to not get paid is because you've signed up for an internship. And the only you would do one of those is for a major company you really want to work for, or a job in the media. Don't let business owners scam you and take advantage of you.

 

Maybe it's a UK think but you work a work in hand, meaning you don't get paid for the first week. Though you get that payment when you leave.