A few years ago I sat at a cubicle right by the office door. It was unbelievably distracting to see and hear people coming and going all day. Do your best to never get such a seat. One joy of this location was that I became the defacto greeter for new faces who entered our bit of cube farm. One day I was sitting at my cubicle when a man I didn’t know walked into our office. I asked him if I could help him find someone, and he opened his mouth, then paused. After a moment he told me that he couldn’t remember the person’s name; they had never met before. This isn’t as unusual as it sounds if you work in a particularly large bureaucracy. You get invited to some meeting because of your presence on an email alias or your relationship with someone else in the organization. The host, whom you don’t know, invited you indirectly...
Know why you are going to that meeting
Know why you are going to that meeting
Know why you are going to that meeting
A few years ago I sat at a cubicle right by the office door. It was unbelievably distracting to see and hear people coming and going all day. Do your best to never get such a seat. One joy of this location was that I became the defacto greeter for new faces who entered our bit of cube farm. One day I was sitting at my cubicle when a man I didn’t know walked into our office. I asked him if I could help him find someone, and he opened his mouth, then paused. After a moment he told me that he couldn’t remember the person’s name; they had never met before. This isn’t as unusual as it sounds if you work in a particularly large bureaucracy. You get invited to some meeting because of your presence on an email alias or your relationship with someone else in the organization. The host, whom you don’t know, invited you indirectly...