6 Habits That Will Get You Fired
1. Build paper empires
Many well-meaning individuals create systems built on documents (both physical and digital) where employees spend more time trying to figure out the system than doing work. You can't avoid change. But you can avoid unnecessary forms, redundant efforts, and word-stuffed documents. They eat valuable time and cut productivity.
2. Be an information hoarder
People who covet information and don't share it are bad for business. A good manager will spot this and, eventually, the information hoarder will get replaced or reassigned to a less critical function. Why? Because of instead of being an information multiplier who adds exponential value to the company, you're creating an information bottleneck for the people who are paying you to do exactly the opposite.
3. Gossip
Gossiping can impact mission critical functions, like project teams and talent hiring. Everyone is entitled to complain about their work from time to time-such is life. But pitting employees against one another, and creating the means for them to be dissatisfied with their work, is a sure way to get canned.
4. Don't help the new guy
Helping actually marks you as capable of managing and onboarding employees. The onboarding process can be a costly one, wherein the company is effectively paying a new employee for a substantially reduced rate of productivity.
5. Mock your co-workers
Don't make fun of other employees about things like weight, looks, clothing, lifestyle, dating habits, family beliefs, etc. Although you may think it's funny, chances are the person whom you are poking fun at doesn't find it funny. If you hurt people in the company, you hurt the company, which eventually hurts you.
6. Watch the clock
Showing the boss you are willing to stay locked into your job until it's done, even if that means working beyond quitting time, is still a way to impress.
Understand how bosses think. They're committed, and chances are, they've been putting in more hours than anyone since long before you got your fancy job title. Hard work still has a lot of value.
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