OT: Business schools need to implement a class on manners

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  • #195131
    Anonymous
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    Anyone else have to deal with smelly, loud eating and drinking people on their audit team? On my team, one person smells like an ash tray when she comes in from smoking, the other chews so loud that it sounds like a cow chewing cud, and the guy to my right gulps his drinks so loud I can hear it even with my ear buds in. How can you be a licensed professional working for multi-billion dollar international company with a masters degree from a prestigious university, yet have the table manners of a second grader and/or total ignorance toward your hygiene?

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  • #676065
    taxman89
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    everyone has quirks and dealing with them is part of working with others in a professional environment. the smoke thing i get but if someone's chewing or drinking habits are bugging you, you probably need to grow some thicker skin and get over it because there is probably 1 or 2 habits of yours that annoy them as well :D.

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    #676066
    Lion_of_the_Rock
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    This kind of thing happens everywhere you go. It is pretty much up to you to get over it or look past it. On the bright side, if you have nice manners and dress well then maybe you get a bit of goodwill at the office. And, things could be worse, just check out the news these days. Smile!

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    #676067
    Anonymous
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    I would never tolerate smacking lips while eating, but then again, let them look like a total slob when taking a client out to dinner.

    #676068
    Anonymous
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    Ummmmm, be glad that your coworkers are not a coworker I used to have who we shall call Sam Suckitt. This individual's name was even worse than that, but very similar in that it was also an insulting alliterative sentence about himself. Bringing McDonald's into work when we were all in cubes and the smell from that bag of disgusting non-food would permeate every corner of the office is the least offensive thing he ever did (and I reserve the right to throw up on anyone who thinks they can eat McDonald's next to me). To start, he would clip his nails at his desk. Nails would go flying every which way and he never picked them up. They would even fly over the cubicle walls onto other people's desks. When we finally moved out of that god forsaken office and dismantled the cubes, a scattering of years of fingernails stood where the cubicle walls were.

    The entire office went out to lunch that day and I described the unbelievable horror that this disgusting barbarian left behind himself, looking right at him. He seemed to not understand the problem. We moved into a brand new office and, by the time he was finally fired (he also did not do any work whatsoever BTW), not only was his whole office covered in fingernails, but gunk from in between his teeth as he had begun FLOSSING at his desk as well. I put up a sign in the common room about common decency and hygiene and things that make everyone else want to vomit. The boss loved it, but old Sam Suckitt ignored it. At that point, he'd also started sticking his filthy hands into the common ice tray rather than using the dispenser. We had to throw away his new recycle bin as he decided it was an appropriate place to spit, and the entire bottom was coated in congealed caveman phelgm. ZERO HYGEINE, ZERO MANNERS.

    At the new office, I got a much bigger and nicer office than he did, and he pitched a fit to try to get my office, though he got to pick which office he wanted originally and I did not. The boss told him repeatedly he had to stick with what he chose. Sam responded by locking himself in MY office the day we moved in to make a phone call, despite the fact that I had already moved my stuff inside and the boss told him a dozen times to get over it, it wasn't happening.

    Sam also used to think it was appropriate to lightly massage the admin assistant from time to time and to give me the full elevator eyes when I would wear a dress to work. Everyone at the office HATED him.

    Is it bad that I want to use his real name so that others can be forewarned before they end up hiring him?

    #676069
    alboreland
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    Where do people get the nerve to eat McDonalds?

    #676070
    TNCPA16
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    When I was in school, I attended a dinner put on by my school where this woman taught us etiquette. I don't think it was a requirement, but it really should have been…and should have been a requirement for all students, not just business majors! Although I was glad I attended, it did make me hyper-aware of everyone's bad table manners. Even some of the most professional people I know do things that are considered bad etiquette! My number one pet peeve at the dinner table now is when people place their knife on the edge of their plate with the blade facing outward. The blade should always face towards you (and now anyone reading this will probably notice too…you're welcome 🙂 ).

    #676071
    Anonymous
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    People can poison themselves all they want; but there is a special place in hell for people who bring it into a small, enclosed environment (airplane, cubicle). That office was tiny and it made everyone else gag. Besides, nail clipping, flossing, spitting, and sticking his hands inside shared food/drink and that's what you pick up on?

    #676072
    y_u_no_pass
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    Yeah there was a voluntary etiquette event at my school. I was never able to make it though. I definitely could learn more, but honestly I think people are a little too picky. It is rare that I notice anyone's eating or drinking habits and it is their business what they must choose to eat. I have to agree the flossing and nails and tantrums are gross.

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    #676073
    Anonymous
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    People should be more considerate and more professional, for sure. But please, for the love of sanity, can we stop insisting we have a right to never see, smell, or hear anything that offends or displeases us? This is the real world. You are going to encounter people who were raised differently than you were, come from different academic and professional environments than you do, and have different tastes and tolerances than you do.

    If something is genuinely interfering with your ability to do your job or is otherwise making you feel unsafe and uncomfortable at work, then. of course, report it through the proper channels. But to those who want to complain loudly and frequently about the way people chew food and drink coffee, you should consider how petty and childish and unprofessional this makes YOU look.

    #676074
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Show me a person that is sincerely offended by a coworker eating mcdonalds in their presence and i'll show you a silver spooned child that has never faced an ounce of adversity in their life.

    My god, get over it.

    #676075
    ruggercpa2b
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    I also think it can be a cultural thing and upbringing. I can remember at an early age my parents saying dont chew with your mouth open.

    I think being stuck in a room with people for hours on end on an audit any little thing will get on your nerves. I have friends that complain about people warming up fish in the break room and I have been guilty for having salmon.

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    #676076
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I personally cannot wait for the people who clip, floss, and spit to come defend themselves. Way too funny.

    #676077
    ScarletKnightCPA
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    MCDONALDS??!! How dare he!

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    #676078
    golfball7773
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    MCDONALDS! they should of at least picked WENDY'S!

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    #676079
    wr8280
    Member

    Just think, their bad habits are a liability. Someone who is well polished, has good hygiene will have an advantage when it comes to promotions. Think of it as being a good thing for your career… if you can stand it.

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