So...they tell us when we're growing up that honesty is the best policy. I guess that applies with our parents when we're growing up, but now-a-days it seems like it's not really that good an idea to do it much of anywhere else. Case in point, here is an article about what not to say at work that I read on Yahoo! yesterday.
It's tough to know where to draw the line at work sometimes. As the article states, and most of us can attest to, we start to become comfortable with our co-workers once we've been around them for long enough. Most everyone in America spends more of our waking hours with our co-workers than we do with our families, and this can lead to a level of honesty that can get us into some serious trouble at work.
The article is really well written and offers up some great examples of what not to say and do at work. Some of them are pretty ridiculous, and would be things that most of us would never think of saying, but some are things that you might mean to be a joke at the time that can turn into a pink slip (does anyone that gets fired really get one of these things anymore by the way???) later on. My favorite one is the young lady that tells her boss that she hoped he voted for Colonel Sanders instead of Oliver North that got fired...hahahaha...funny, but not funny all at the same time. The comments at the bottom of these articles can always be fun, as well, and I recommend going through at least a few of them with issues like this one.
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