Ten Workplace Vices That Affect Career Success

Experts agree that under the current very harsh employment environment, employees' bad behavior is becoming increasingly unacceptable to employers and is more likely to be dismissed because of these offences.

"For every employee, there are 100 people queuing up to take over the job," says Kiki Weingarten, Kiki Weingarten, a New York business executive. "Now employers are more picky than ever before."

Here, four heavyweight career guidance provides ten major workplace vices, which they think will cause employees to get bad job evaluations.

Please check them one by one before destroying yourself.

Habit 1: indulge in e-mail

At meetings with customers or bosses, you can't stop checking email on BlackBerry phones.

You think that during a weekly sales meeting, it's efficient to make sure that you haven't missed an e-mail, but your colleagues, especially those who are speaking at the meeting, think it's a kind of personal insult.

Matt Iventov Eventoff, New Jersey, Princeton (Princeton), says that constantly checking your smartphone will convey a real sense of arrogance to others. (Matt)

How to quit:

"Drop the BlackBerry," Even Tov said. "Especially during the meeting."

Turn off your cell phone, put it away and leave it in your office. "If you are waiting for a special and urgent e-mail, let your colleagues know this beforehand," Even Tov said. "Otherwise, don't bring your BlackBerry to the meeting."

Habit 2: love flattering

No one likes flatterer, and in the office, to speak to your superiors for your compliments may also make you bear this abuse.

If you are only willing to give every request to your superiors, your colleagues will easily resent your enthusiasm.

To make matters worse, your boss may see through your constant compliments that you are a nuisance, rather than a constructive team member.

How to quit:

Review the past 10 things that you should say "yes", no matter what your boss says or what you do in the office.

Are there any things that you would disagree with when you think about it honestly? Learn to say "no" sometimes to your superiors and teammates, you are indeed a backbone.

Habit 3: meddling

Do you manage yourself well instead of meddling in other people's affairs, or have you been listening to the latest gossip or anything in the office? Check yourself.

Your habit of knowing everything is likely to be the root cause of your colleagues' stress.

No matter who your colleagues are in the company or when they meet at cocktail parties after work, you will get into trouble with your habit of meddling in anything.

How to quit:

If you need the information you need to perform your duties, arrange weekly meetings and team meetings with your colleagues to keep track of what is happening.

Otherwise, wait for others to tell you voluntarily, and restrain the urge to eavesdrop on others' conversation.

If nothing works, spend some money on some earphones.

Habit 4: lack of e-mail.

If your e-mail in the box reads more like a string of bullets fired by the firing squad than a friendly communication, it may be time to check the style of your interpersonal communication.

It is very rare for Yu Qian to be seen as an email from Yu Qian and he said, "because e-mail lacks tone, no emotion and no intonation, your short e-mail is easy to be regarded as opinionated, demanding or impatient."

How to quit:

Even Tov said that if the e-mail habit persists, then the unpleasant mood will inevitably grow in the team.

Develop the habit of reading carefully before sending an e-mail and estimating how your partner will feel when reading, especially if the recipients of these e-mails are not familiar colleagues in your office.

Habit 5: always looking for it.

You may have forgotten the mobile device with the demo file, but you are not going to admit it.

You don't know how to answer your boss's questions, but try to justify yourself by bypassing the answers.

As a result, you not only waste your time, but also waste the time of your manager and colleagues.

How to quit:

Patrick Flannery, an executive consultant at Arlington, Virginia, said, 10 minutes before each meeting, make a reminder in your diary.

"It is better to spend 20 minutes in front of your colleagues to make excuses in the meeting than to spend 10 minutes before the meeting to prepare the necessary documents and sort out the points you want to express at the meeting."

Habit 6: love handles multiple tasks at the same time, but the effect is very bad.

Technology development has made simultaneous processing multitask (multi-tasking) standard in most workshops, but experts say this will create more problems, not improve efficiency.

Roy Cohen (Roy Cohen), the author and career consultant of the The Wall Street Professional s Survival Guide, says that if you have been more than once found to have missed the relevant information in e-mail or correspondence, especially the deadline, amount of money or other project elements, this may be a sign that you are trying to cope with multitasking at the same time as you think you are proficient in, Wall.

How to quit:

Consciously focus your attention on tasks (or phone calls or e-mail) that are in front of you.

Read each email carefully and respond to each email, then read the next email.

"And don't listen to the phone before you finish the task," Flannery warned.

It's hard to get rid of the habit of dealing with multiple tasks at the same time, but it's inevitable if your job performance is affected.

Habit 7:

"This is not my responsibility."

The problem of setting too many responsibilities in your job is whether you refuse to accept tasks or tasks that you do not consider to be within your responsibilities, or remain unmoved for nine to five working hours.

If that person is your colleague and manager, you will soon find that your stubbornness is not good for you.

That's probably not their responsibility.

How to quit:

Next time you are sent to an unattractive task, ask yourself, if you push it off, who will have to deal with this task.

Realize that in the recession of major companies' layoffs, everyone must share the extra responsibilities arising from layoffs, and if you make yourself an exception, your reputation will be affected.

Habit 8:

Thief

If your pen does not appear on your desk often, you will probably have problems with borrowing other people's things.

Taking away someone's pen, stapler or someone's favorite coffee cup will never make you win the love of your colleagues.

How to quit:

Mark your stuff, or at least stick to a recogniable brand of pen.

Flannery seems to say that this is contrary to intuition, but if you see a pen on your desk that does not belong to the pen brand you use, you can instantly remember the owner of this pen and return it.

Habit 9: dressing style is out of season.

Personal attire style is one thing, but the problem of working clothes is another matter.

When your boss questions whether your dressing style is "suitable for meeting customers", then you create a conflict between fashion and work that may lead you to lose the next promotion opportunity.

How to quit:

Cohen suggests, imagine the wardrobe of the most admired person in your office.

How they dress, and why their clothes are suitable for their positions in the company, imagine how they choose their clothes from their wardrobe in their daily life.

Then remember the dressing style of your example, and buy some suitable clothes for yourself.

Habit 10: acute child

"Angry employees are dangerous employees," said Cohen, who has been consulting for impatient and impetuous executives for 20 years. "Managers are cautious about angry employees.

They know what "going postal" means in the workplace.

"If the copier breaks down, your blood pressure will rise sharply, or when you enter the room, the assistants will disperse immediately, so it's time to reexamine your behavior and behavior four times.

Colleagues who feel uncomfortable or uncomfortable when you are present are unlikely to praise you.

How to quit:

If you want to get rid of the bad name of your bad temper, try to pause before you react to tension.

Flannery suggests closing your office door and taking deep breaths several times, and then "do everything possible to avoid losing temper with colleagues before thinking thoroughly."

Cohen said that if everything is invalid, then seek professional guidance.

"You may not only be angry about the cause of your work," he said.