AN A-Z OF OFFICE LIFE for beginners
If you have never worked in an office, if this is your first job or you are returning after a few years away, or if you are simply a person who has never understood office ‘rules’, this book is for you.
What are you supposed to wear?
What happens during meetings?
Who do you go to if you have problems?
And, most importantly, how do you cope with annoying colleagues?
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SAMPLE PAGE FROM 'ARRIVING' SECTION
You may be given a list of your colleagues and a plan of where they sit (if people have their own desks and don’t share workspaces – ‘hot-desking’). Ask if one is available, if a room plan is not offered to you. Alternatively, the company may have an internal internet (intranet) or cloud-based platform for staff to access, with names and photos of everyone. Much easier!
Some people find recognising faces difficult, more so if they meet someone in a different setting. It may be useful to let your colleagues know if that applies to you so they won’t be offended if you don’t recognize them in the supermarket.
If someone gets your name wrong early on, try to put them right as soon as possible. to save embarrassment later.
How will you get on in the first few days?
Try this non-scientific quiz and find out!
You are given a copy of the huge staff manual to read. Do you
A Read it avidly from cover to cover, and take it home after work so you can read it again?
B Have a quick skim through then start playing with your phone?
C Ask if there are specific areas you should concentrate on?
You are asked to collect some pens from the storeroom. Do you
A Jump up excitedly and shout out to your new colleagues to ask if they want anything?
B Wander off in the direction of the store room but get distracted by the coffee machine?
C Ask where the room is located?
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SAMPLE PAGE FROM 'BOSSES' SECTION
BOSSES
3 rules
1 Make sure you know who your boss* is (you may have more than one)
2 Make sure you know your boss’s full name, how to spell it and how to pronounce it
3 Do not complain about your boss to your colleagues (at least until you know who you can trust)
*this is the person who tells you what to do and who may also be responsible for your training. They should be the person who has ultimate responsibility for you, although other colleagues may offer advice or tell you what to do.
Being a boss (or a manager, supervisor, team leader, etc) is not easy, something you need to bear in mind when you are plotting 50 ways to get rid of them. Your boss will probably have their own boss, and that boss might also have a boss, and so on, each of whom will put pressure on the person below them in the hierarchy. Depending on the type of organisation, and whether your boss is the actual owner or not, they may have targets to reach, or clients to please, or company shareholders to satisfy, so looking after you might not be their top priority.
People become managers for all sorts of reasons, but rarely because they are inherently good at their job (and many of them lack the ability to learn to be good at their job).
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A-Z of Office Life for beginners, 160 pages, 10.5 x 14.8 cm
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