Since it’s video Friday, I will showing cubicle pranks and cubicle wars.
Barats and Bereta on Cubicle wars
The Great Office War
Cubicle Expansion
Superglue
Hopefully Everyone enjoyed this weeks office videos.
The problem that most companies have these days are looking at an employee resume and believing everything on that sheet of paper. Many resumes are quickly glanced over, potential employees are tossed away and others are given a chance just because they have a small amount of skill according to that piece of paper. Many interviewees lie on their resume with a skill they do not have because they simply want the job. Many other promising people are thrown aside because they did not want to lie on their resume. These promising people are the employees that should be hired. Having “skills” are only a part of the equation, their personality, and drive should be looked at and evaluated at the same level.
Personality is always important in a company because if one person does not mesh with the other employees then it will create an awkward environment. One unwritten but well known rule of smaller companies is to have everyone happy and the way you do that is hire competent people with great attitudes. Employees will learn to work together because of this. Larger companies want to keep this practice but since they are so big they lose touch with their employees and hire people that can do the job even if they do not work well with others.
How far will you go to do that job or improved on it? The answer is, I will make it better than what you thought it could be. A person’s drive is always evaluated during an interview, you can tell how much they want the job. Some people call this hunger, people are hungry for a job and willing to do what ever it takes. In my mind, this is the most important trait. It separates those who are willing to do the bare minimum and those that will be great. A never give up attitude will always be given respect from a people because they wish they could be like that. This trait is usually from people who want something badly and had some kind of hardship or ordeal that they had to deal with to prove themselves. Being lazy is a trait people have and something people cannot grow out of. They have never felt the need to work and they do no have the hunger for a job completed.
Skill, personality and drive are what employers should look for. Do not put skill above all because someone can have all the skill in the world and too lazy to do anything. Personality is needed for a great work environment, a happy group of people make a happy company. From all this I hope you have learned to judge people by everything they are worth then just what is written. Remember to never judge a book by it’s cover.
Hello Everyone,
I thought I would start including an office video every Friday to my blog. Today’s video is from Office Space with the meeting of the Bobs. Enjoy everyone.
I was reading the Consumerist today and they had the perfect article for this blog, 5 Tips For Getting Unstuck From A Miserable Job. Here were the five tips that they had for getting unstuck from your miserable job.
Most of us can identify with these some or all of these things. Everyone wants to work at something they enjoy and that can be anything. I have met engineers that threw it all away just to work on huminatarian projects and hard working business men that joined the navy because they new it was better there. Lately I would love to get in touch with work that I really enjoyed but at my office, they will not let me do that anymore. I know do it at home and I feel proud of myself when it’s done.
Identifying places where I could cut spending is difficult for anyone because everything is a necessity unless I drill it down. The first thing most people do is cut down on eating out, that saves on average $10 dollars a day. Since I do not make that much I am force to cut down on other things. This point leads me into the emergency fund.
The emergency fund is definitely the hardest to create. No one knows how long you will be out of a job. You could have a job the next day or a few months from now. Since my salary is not what I wanted it to be after two hard earned years (brought in new services), I have to save up all the scraps I can muster to protect myself.
The “target date” is a something that is not set in stone but most people have an area of time when they would like to leave the company. Instead of having a target date, I have a target price, if I do not make this salary by my birthday, I will leave. Now all I need to do is bide my time until my review, another darn 6 months.
Well that’s my rant for today.
It was April Fools’ Day and I was hoping for a prank in my office and nothing happened 
. Instead I am presenting a few youtube videos of various office pranks.
Walling Off an Entire Hallway
Operation Outhouse
An Office Prank Gone Wrong
This next clip is about someone breaking the cardinal rule of office pranks, you do not squeal.
This last one is an easy prank for the people who do not what to do.
Thanks for watching.
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