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Six dos and don'ts on your first day at work


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Kabeer
ART OF GETTING INTRODUCED! CATTLELIKE OR PROFESSIONAL
by Kabeer on Nov 14, 2011 07:22 PM  | Hide replies

1. After meeting your boss at about 10-11, your boss will ask the HR guy or gal to introduce you to all staff. That fella, in turn calls one person above office boy and tells him to you around. That glorified manager must be doing it almost every day, or worse even must be taking with him two or more for a mass introduction. I am not joking these kinds of things happen IT Cos where the turnover is high.

Dont become a cattle over there.

When you are introduced, unless you are a pretty seksy bomb, no one really spends quality time with you except those plastic smiles.

So, before hand, request your boss to inform the HR bloke to send an introductory mail about you (length of intro depends on your seniority. may be a paragraph or just a two liner about your name, age and dept)to all staff and you will introduce yourself.

Then ask the HR bloke to give you the list of all employees and their departments. This sheet is available with HR guys.

Read that 5-6 times and you know how many guys and gals and how many depts and what kinds of designattions they have and how many work in each dept.

After reading that list several times, and ensuring that the HR guy already sent that introductory mail, start meeting people just before lunch.

Chances are since most of them have seen the mail, they know your name and if they forget later, they can always check back.

Dont tell your professional credentials. Tell them about your hobbies and the places you frequent. Birds of same feathers!

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Bala
Re: ART OF GETTING INTRODUCED! CATTLELIKE OR PROFESSIONAL
by Bala on Nov 15, 2011 09:03 AM
Nice only. You can become VP HR.

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CHATUR
FEMALE MANAGERS..FAIL TO REALISE THAT EVEN BOYS HAVE
by CHATUR on Nov 14, 2011 06:43 PM  | Hide replies

lot of problems..in maintaining discipline due to boys peer pressure

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Rythm
No way
by Rythm on Nov 14, 2011 06:37 PM

One should not adjust to the environment. Let the environment adjust...

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nitya kt
Rediff... The Grammar King/Queen
by nitya kt on Nov 14, 2011 06:23 PM

"This has really happened to a batch mate and the change was not communicated to him due to some miscommunication". Really??!

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Kid
How immature.....
by Kid on Nov 14, 2011 06:05 PM

What a silly article.... It says don't read comics or play solitaire?? Do you expect any sane person at whatever level he might have been recruited would do so on the first day at a new company??? Crazy and utterly childish!!

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m prasad
Good employee
by m prasad on Nov 14, 2011 06:03 PM  | Hide replies

1. Respect other employees.
2. Difference of opinion is not a crime. You need to accept it.
3.Don't talk cheeply about other employees including your boss.
4. Dont think yourself too big. Organisation is not only you. It existed even before you and it will be there even after you.
5. Every organisation will have and - points. By changing to a new company, dont expect that you are joing a heaven.
6. Politics will exist in organisation. Only way to escape from politics is by concentrating on job.

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Anthony Raj
Re: Good employee
by Anthony Raj on Nov 14, 2011 06:08 PM
Nice!

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avinash meshram
Re: Good employee
by avinash meshram on Nov 14, 2011 07:22 PM
if one follow these rules (Good employee), he will always be a gud employee and wll be there only form where he has started his prof career...ha ha ha ha

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vivek sharma
Re: Good employee
by vivek sharma on Nov 15, 2011 08:46 AM
Its really NICE & Practical...

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