In a world of unpaid internships and distracted managers, how’s a young professional to learn?
Five essential insights to surviving as you start out.
By Nadira A. Hira
NEW YORK (Fortune) — A few years before I began writing “The Gig,” when I was starting out as one of the starry-eyed Gen Y staffers I now write about (and still am), I walked to the office printer barefoot. Granted, it was in an office where wearing short sleeves constituted a statement. (Not Fortune, you gossips.) And to my credit, I’d taken my shoes off under my desk and simply forgotten to put them back on. But the veritable uproar this etiquette infraction caused — we actually had a meeting about it, if I recall — taught me an invaluable lesson: Nothing ruins your workplace rep like a breach of office etiquette…Read the full article for the 5 essential insights
The entry-level guide to office etiquette
In a world of unpaid internships and distracted managers, how’s a young professional to learn? Five essential insights to surviving as you start out.
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NEW YORK (Fortune) — A few years before I began writing “The Gig,” when I was starting out as one of the starry-eyed Gen Y staffers I now write about (and still am), I walked to the office printer barefoot. Granted, it was in an office where wearing short sleeves constituted a statement. (Not Fortune, you gossips.) And to my credit, I’d taken my shoes off under my desk and simply forgotten to put them back on. But the veritable uproar this etiquette infraction caused — we actually had a meeting about it, if I recall — taught me an invaluable lesson: Nothing ruins your workplace rep like a breach of office etiquette.