FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO - IN YOUR OFFICE

1. Being a sloppy e-mailer - best time to respond is less than 4 hours and remember, your words depict your personality
2. Confusing informal with disrespectful - be careful when communicating with managers and colleagues; choose your jokes smartly
3. Taking advantage of leeway - if you are not caught one day, don't make it a habit as you may be caught another day; also people keep forming opinions about you even when you don’t know it; short cuts, cut your professional life short
4. Acting as a resident contrarian - don't negate just everything, be logical otherwise people will start leaving you out of decision making
5. Bad mouthing about the company - don't do it; poses questions on your loyalty in current and future assignments; stay positive

Thanks to Sidra Iqbal (Corporate Coffee, PTV)

Jinnah's portraits removed from Presidency and PM House

Saturday, June 27, 2009, the News International, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The portraits of Founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah have been removed from the Prime Minister House and Presidential House, Geo News revealed Saturday.Two days ago, President Asif Ali Zardari hosted a reception in the honour of national cricket team on winning the ICC Twenty20 World Cup title. On this occasion, the team players and officials had a group photo with President Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.There are pictures of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal Zardari Bhutto and President Zardari without any picture of founder of Pakistan are seen hung in the backdrop of photo.Similarly, an Internship Award ceremony was held with PM Gilani in chair on Friday. On this occasion, the stage was decorated with the pictures of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, President Zardari and PM Gilani; however, there was no picture of Quaid-e-Azam.In a similar photograph, President Zardari was administering oath of Federal Mohtasib to Dr Shoaib Suddle; however, the backdrop flashed with a picture of Quaid-e-Awam sans any photo of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah.Similarly, in a meeting with US delegation, no photograph of Muhammed Ali Jinnah was visible.Under law, to hang the portrait of Quaid-e-Azam at offices of government officials, President and Prime Minister is compulsory.

How cheap is the mentality up there and how childish our rulers are...

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Reference: http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=81600

Office emails

1. I wonder why do people keep emailing each other while a trivial issue can be resolved on a 5 minute phone chat.

2. Have you ever thought how hard it is to give words (in writing) to your feelings/ body language? Email is useful but at times does not convey the point properly even if you have a large vocabulary available to your support.

3. Should official email be used for sending jokes, news and infotaiment to your friends? (Ethical dilemma!)