Successful working life (4)

Golden Rules for a successful working life....
...according to George Costanza

Voice Mail
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Never answer your phone if you have voice mail. People don't call you
just because they want to give you something for nothing - they call
because they want YOU to do work for THEM. That's no way to live. Screen
all your calls through voice mail. If somebody leaves a voice mail
message for you and it sounds like impending work, respond during lunch
hour when you know they're not there - it looks like you're hardworking
and conscientious even though you're being a devious weasel.

Successful working life (3)

Golden Rules for a successful working life....

...according to George Costanza

Messy desk

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Top management can get away with a clean desk. For the rest of us, it

looks like we're not working hard enough. Build huge piles of documents

around your workspace. To the observer, last year's work looks the same

as today's work; it's volume that counts. Pile them high and wide. If

you know somebody is coming to your cubicle, bury the document you'll

need halfway down in an existing stack and rummage for it when he/she

arrives.

Successful working life (2)

Golden Rules for a successful working life....

...according to George Costanza



Use computers to look busy

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Any time you use a computer, it looks like "work" to the casual

observer. You can send and receive personal e-mail, chat and generally

have a blast without doing anything remotely related to work. These

aren't exactly the societal benefits that the proponents of the computer

revolution would like to talk about but they're not bad either. When you

get caught by your boss - and you *will* get caught -- your best

defense is to claim you're teaching yourself to use new software, thus

saving valuable training dollars.