What are your rules for survival in the workplace?

—Especially in the corporate world.

If you’ve survived for long in the workplace, you probably have some personal rules you live by, maybe serious, maybe tongue-in-cheek, maybe unspoken.

Here are three of mine:

• Always read what’s left on the whiteboard from the meeting before yours.

• Always read whatever you find left accidentally on the copying machine or fax.

• Always read any e-mail sent to you in error.

What are yours?

 
Tags as I wrote them: workplace, corporations, rules for survival, Darwinism, information, office politics.