Comments on: Five workplace practices that should be over. Now.

By: Loopy

Loopy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:40:18 +0000

After reading "My twenty-three year old brother used to be an analyst at a big investment bank" your credibility went out the door.

By: IMLP Blog » How to Succeed in a Rotational Leadership Program

IMLP Blog » How to Succeed in a Rotational Leadership Program — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:17:17 +0000

[...] to educate and inspire new employees within their new corporation but, as with any system, there a pitfalls and opportunities for improvement. By avoiding the tendency of our "ADD" generation to [...]

By: TS

TS — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:38:14 +0000

I had some issues with the article. I'm 23, and I HATE when people don't leave messages. There was a reason you called, and if it's not important enough for you to leave a message, then it's not important enough for me to return your call. Socially, OK, fine, whatever, you'll call your friend back, but not at work. On the same note, don't leave meandering messages, be brief yet detailed. Don't leave the time you called (voicemail will tell you that), but leave name, number, reason you called, and what you expect of me.

Reply-to-all: useful because if you're out of the office, someone else knows the situation and can deal with it. If not abused, wonderfully useful.

Workplace Candy Machine: sometimes you're in the office longer than expected and didn't think to leave food in the car. There should be snacks somewhere in an office.

Agree with the rest.

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Employee Evolution - How to Succeed in a Rotational Leadership Program — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:01:46 +0000

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By: Joshua Long

Joshua Long — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:50:24 +0000

Brilliant post!

I hate the fact that most people don't know what the 'BCC' button is for and prostitute others emails in the hordes of stupid forwards they perpetuate every day. It is way worse than the reply all button, but I don't work in a Fortune 500 Borg-like community.

By: Help End These Workplace Practices!: itsreallyjustme.net

Help End These Workplace Practices!: itsreallyjustme.net — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:11:58 +0000

[...] was a great article over at the Brazen Careerist where Penelope Trunk breaks down some of the most annoying goings on of a typical workplace that [...]

By: It’s time to stop using voicemail « Tales of a Technology Omnivore

It’s time to stop using voicemail « Tales of a Technology Omnivore — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:53:10 +0000

[...] convenience and acted upon. But today text messages and email have obsoleted the voicemail! I like how Penelope Trunk says it in her blog: "It will come as news to most people over thirty that most people under thirty do not leave [...]

By: Ghillie Suits » Five workplace practices that should be over. Now.

Ghillie Suits » Five workplace practices that should be over. Now. — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:17:21 +0000

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here's a quick excerptThink about it: Voice mail takes a long time to retrieve and it's almost never earth-shattering, so it's not worth the time it requires. [...]

By: Joan Woodbrey

Joan Woodbrey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:42:53 +0000

Personally, I couldn't agree more. Office parties are a joke. Why don't they just take the money they spend on all the holiday hooplas and find away to give it back to the employees through incentives and what not.

I also agree that voicemail is not only archaic, but extremely annoying. Email is a much better way to communicate. It eliminates the ranting, babbling, non-sense that most messages become and allows the person to collect their thoughts more cohesively. Plus, if it is referring to an actual document, invoice, whatever, you can have it right there for the person to see.

This was a great article, Thanks for sharing.