The other day, our building distributed a memo about “parking etiquette” for the parking garage under the building. It unfortunately had to be distributed because too many yahoos were just doing stupid things (parking in front of access doors and blocking them, backing into spaces while holding up a line of traffic, etc…).
It got me thinking that we should distribute a building wide memo on overall Office Etiquette. I’ll share a few pet peeves of mine that appear to be unwritten.
1) When waiting to get on an elevator, WAIT until people exiting the car on that floor exit BEFORE you enter. I don’t know how many times I’ve attempted to exit an elevator all to be blocked or pushed back by people getting on.
2) If you are going to use your speaker phone, shut your door! Contrary to your thought process, not everyone wants to hear your phone conversation or conference call. And, if you’re in a cube farm, the use of the speaker phone should not be allowed.
3) When you’re sharing a printer on the floor, sort through the documents you’re picking up BEFORE walking back to your desk. Make sure you didn’t grab someone else’s print job.
4) When exiting the building in the winter, USE the revolving doors! There’s a reason the side doors have a sign reading, “Use Revolving Door.”
5) When walking the steps, be courteous to those coming up from behind you. Step aside on the next floor and let quicker traffic by you. In other words, get your head out of your current text messaging and pay attention (that covers about 80% of the cases anyhow)
What additions would you make to this list?
