Work
Small steps that worked for real people, on work.
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- Attach the file before you write the email
- Break the To field on purpose
- Buy yourself a minute after send
- Draft it where it can’t send
- Let the workload say no for you
- Listen your way in
- Match your loyalty to theirs
- Not knowing yet is the job
- Proofread past the spellcheck
- Tell the new one they're doing fine
- The address goes in last
- The donut gambit
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- workGo to office hours with nothing wrongTwo conversations say the room is often empty and the professor bored; five say showing up is the surest way to be known. Go before anything is wrong.
All 53 tips on work
- A job does not sell you the kit
- A raise below inflation is a quiet pay cut
- Ask the internet for people, not pages
- Attach the file before you write the email
- Break the To field on purpose
- Bring HR a company problem
- Buy yourself a minute after send
- Change your socks halfway through the shift
- Check the payslip against your own hours
- Cite it the second you use it
- Draft it where it can’t send
- Go to office hours with nothing wrong
- Hold Ctrl, and the keyboard thinks in words
- Hum before you speak
- Is this deck for the room or for the inbox?
- It is the standing still that hurts
- Learn the spreadsheet you already open
- Let the workload say no for you
- Lift your feet off the floor
- Listen your way in
- Look for the next job while you still like this one
- Match your loyalty to theirs
- Not knowing yet is the job
- One gift card, from one person, quietly
- Only the contract is the promise
- Proofread past the spellcheck
- Put something between work and the sofa
- Say it before they find it
- Say the letter, then a word
- Say where the understanding came from
- Say you’re angry at the company, not at them
- Spell it out the first time
- Start the file and line up the exit
- Take the free lectures, skip the certificate
- Take the just out, then decide
- Take the sip, then answer
- Take the water and use the sip
- Tell the new one they're doing fine
- The address goes in last
- The donut gambit
- The listing is their wish list
- The one who warns you about everyone
- The print button is a PDF editor
- The tab you just lost has an undo button
- Three doors to liking your work
- Try ‘him’ before you write ‘whom’
- Volunteer to go first
- What a former employer is actually allowed to say
- When “people skills” means “play the game”
- Write it down while they show you
- Write it hot, send it cold
- You are allowed to ask what others earn
- Your resume's filename is read first
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