8 ways to ruin your career

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

We can climb the career ladder for years, and then make one annoying mistake and suddenly fall head over heels down the steps.

Unfortunately, no one is immune from rash and careless actions, and it is far from always possible to blame others for career stagnation or decline - often it's only in ourselves. And in order not to become the cause of your own failures, you need to know which sharp corners should be avoided.

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1. Dedicated to those who like to be late

A rare boss will turn a blind eye to the fact that every morning you come to work 20-30 minutes later than the rest. Especially if the rest come exactly at the beginning of the working day. But even a loyal boss will not tolerate an employee who constantly disrupts the deadlines for completing a task. Non-punctuality is an unaffordable luxury for those who dream of a boss's chair. Most likely, you will not be able to grow to it, and at best you will remain in the position of a subordinate, and at worst you will be fired and go to look for happiness where they do not yet know about your "peculiarity."

2. Soul wide open

In any office, there are those who do not feed on bread - let them gossip, and at the same time also embellish the facts, adding a little piquancy to them. It is for such "storytellers" that the chatterbox is the greatest find. Therefore, if you want your colleagues to whisper about something enthusiastically behind your back, then frankly talk about your personal life and career plans to everyone and everyone. We assure you that you will not be able to work productively in such an atmosphere.

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3. Communication - no

The other extreme is not communicating with colleagues at all. At first, introverted people cause confusion, and then they completely cease to be noticed. Well, he sits there, works. Rather like another computer, not a company employee.

In addition, being taciturn, building a wall between yourself and your colleagues, you voluntarily deprive yourself of the opportunity to receive valuable information and friendly support from the team.

4. Walk like that

A corporate event is a real minefield where it is very easy to "blow up" and forget about a brilliant career in a particular company. It would seem that everyone is eating, drinking, dancing - why don't you relax too? But the catch is that today you will relax and start to create madness, and tomorrow you will meet with your colleagues again, and one of them (who was more sober) will definitely remember your exploits. Don't think that dancing on the table, striptease for the boss and privacy in the closet with the sysadmin will get away with you. Most likely, such a party girl will be asked to close the door behind her on the other side.

5. Alone

People don't like those who constantly pull the covers over themselves. Do you want to establish yourself in the eyes of your boss and neglect the help of your colleagues? At first, it might work: the boss will see that you are capable of handling important assignments on your own, and will appreciate your initiative. But then it only gets worse. The team will understand that you are not a team player, and such, as a rule, do not stay in one place for a long time. To confidently climb the career ladder, you will have to learn to cooperate, ask for help when you really need it, and share responsibilities.

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6. All together

When you mix work and personal affairs, you get a mediocre vinaigrette, and not a quality tasty dish. Still, the concepts of "work" and "personal" should be separated and not use the office phone for calls to a close friend, and the computer - for correspondence in social networks. If access to the latter in your company is not blocked for some reason, then you will have to pull yourself together and refuse many hours of "freezing" on the pages of friends. The boss, who accidentally sees what you are doing in the workplace, clearly will not pat you on the head.

7. Let everyone know

A profile on a social network is, if you like, a book that we write ourselves. And in the genre of autobiography. We talk about some facts of our own life, share our opinion regarding a particular situation. In general, a more or less completed profile can tell a lot about a person to a random guest. Can you imagine how surprised the boss will be if he sees on your "wall" a statement about "work that has gotten to the liver"?

By the way, in some companies, new employees are immediately warned that their page on the social network should not be provocative - no political appeals and "18+" posts.

8. Office romance

Well, she doesn't like leadership when their temple of labor turns into a meeting place for two lovers. Moreover, meetings of passionate, distracting the attention of others. In such a situation, everyone is not up to work: some need to embrace enough, others - to discuss these hugs. In fact, an office romance has both pros and cons. When starting a meeting with a colleague, be prepared for the fact that there are not only advantages here. Someone will definitely start spreading gossip about you, inventing non-existent facts, there will even be those who, as if "suddenly" will let their boss slip out, and then you will not have problems. In general, if it really happened that this feeling caught you right in the office, be extremely careful, otherwise you risk finding love, but losing your job.