Best Practices for Work

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I once wrote a book about young people finding their first jobs. I thought it was going to be one book. It ended up stretching into three books: How to Get a Job, How to Keep Your Job, and How to Find Another Job.

If I were to publish the series, I’d need to do a complete revamp, because when I wrote it, AI wasn't really all that present in our lives. At least, we didn’t recognize it. Also, I don’t know much about AI in the workplace. So, I’d need to find out about that. Something to ask ChatGPT about.

I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT.com. It’s $20 a month, but the free version is the same program, just less of it. I never use Chat to write what I publish. I go there to bounce ideas around. You name it, and I’ve asked. Anything from recipes, learning languages, developing crochet patterns, to setting up my websites with less fuss and muss than the old-fashioned way. I asked today how a person in the workplace would use AI.

It told me folks using AI in the workplace might use it to write more professional emails, plan projects, and do all sorts of things.

I shared something that happened to me when I was 19 or 20, working at my first job. I was a store clerk in an Army convenience store in Germany. The store was very much like a 7-11. Basic food items, magazines, household items, and a few clothes. I hadn’t been there for very long, and one of my co-workers came up to me. She pinched my arm and pulled me in close, whispering, “Stop working so hard. You’re making us look bad.” I was shocked. I didn’t know what to do. I asked AI if this might be something somebody could ask them about, and AI responded that it was. I remember at the time I didn’t feel like I could ask anybody what it meant. Now, yes, somebody could go to AI and ask. It would have been helpful at the time because it did upset me a lot.

I have seen advertisements about all the AI apps out there, and how it is necessary to use them; you might not get or keep your job. I don’t know about that and think it is extreme, though I also haven’t been in the job market for some years. So, I don’t know for certain.

I also know that many folks really exaggerate what they have to offer in order to get customers, so much of what I hear advertised could be that as well. Fear and greed sell. Who am I to argue with that? It works.

I am reminded of when I was much younger, and there were so many books aimed at my age group that guaranteed popularity if you read them. None of them ever worked for me. Not a one. I was just very timid and shy and didn’t grow out of that until I started drinking. Not what any of those authors had in mind, I think. But that’s my story. Of course, when you think about it, I think books on dieting are the same.

I think one of the most valuable things to learn about work is simple. Show up on time.

Others are:

Be honest. If you don’t know how to do something, you should always say you can learn. That was enough for my boss to hear from me. I have a feeling a lot of people just told them they knew how to do stuff, then got someone else to do it for them.

Don’t sneak. Don’t cut corners.

Don’t take personal calls during the day. You should tell the people in your life that you will return any calls they make to you when you aren’t working. Even before cell phones entered our lives, it looked really bad for an employee to be doing something other than work while on the job. Crossword puzzles? Sketching? Writing personal letters? Filing your nails? Right, all that belongs to personal time. An exception would be for a parent who needs to be available to take calls from their kid’s school. If you have to make a personal call, just keep it short.

Don’t call in sick when you are not sick, especially if you’ve been partying all weekend. Once you start doing that, you are not going to stop. It will become a habit, and although you might think you’re smart, you are not going to get away with it. My boss used to give people the benefit of the doubt. We used to say he gave you just enough rope to hang yourself, because when it was discovered that you were doing drugs or were a drunk, or even that you had a second job that interfered with the one at our company, that other shoe dropped pretty hard. People notice stuff. Just saying.

Something else I just thought of: Don’t make things more complicated than they need to be. Maybe I’ve done that with those three books. I don’t know. I think the basics still apply.

Although none of this has to do with the spiritual or the woo-woo side of life, it’s still important in people’s lives. It was important to me.

 Blessings to everyone. Write on!

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