Advice: Readers share the unwritten rules of the workplace that they wish they had known early on.
After acing the button-down formality of the interview process, don’t get too comfortable too quickly in your attire or your attitude.
Later on, don’t assume prior experience applies to your current situation. “When I changed jobs in midcareer, I was careful to ask my supervisor, ‘In my old job, I would handle [a situation or personnel issue] this way. Is that how it's handled here?’” said Kathy Larson of Columbia, Md., in an email.In school, you may have grown accustomed to completing your assignments and collecting grades automatically, with no need to strive for extra credit.
“I don't expect perfection,” says Jason O’Toole, a Boston-area poet and risk manager for an acute psychiatric hospital. “I do expect that mistakes will be made. I do expect you to ask questions and to be honest about poor outcomes. You should expect the same honesty from me. I want you to succeed, and it's my job to give you the tools to do so.”Regardless of rank, titles or seeming niceness, treat everyone you meet as important and deserving of respect.
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