What stupid things have you done for your career?

Hmmm. Where to begin really...*
(*if you know me, or work with me, I will not confirm which if any of these events are real)

- Turning up at 9am on the first day. Turning up at closer to 10am pretty much most other days. Isn't flexi-time great. Getting home closer to 7pm than 6pm most nights.

- Allowing yourself different facial hair throughout the week. That's because you don't like shaving, by the way. You know that the more you shave, you more you have to shave. Plus you're already shaving more, so there's even more shaving to do than the more you were shaving.

- The Regional Boss is "doing the rounds"/"pressing palms"/"putting names to faces", and reaches your desk. You turn up in plain clothes (well, it is casual Friday) at close to 9:55 on a Friday.

- Having a girlfriend over on a Sunday night, but taking her back to the train station at around 9.15 on the Monday morning. Forgetting about traffic. Ringing the boss on speakerphone.

- The equivalent of a sub-Regional boss pops his head into a Team meeting of ten or so people and tells the Team that his weekend was ok except he now has a sore back and blisters. You ask him "what have you been doing?"

- Contradicting the sub-Regional boss in front of his subordinates. And letting him down when he was counting on you not to stuff up. Bringing a set of plans/data/tables/charts that you spent hours making, getting into the meeting and finding the rules have changed completely and nothing you brought along is relevant or useful.

- Being interviewed by your team mates, for your own job, and being more nervous than if it were Satan himself seated on the other side of the table.



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