6 ridiculous things I learnt at work.

The downside of having a job is by far the early mornings and nothing else and the up side is tht u get experience out of your education and many other things get into ur system which were earlier missing in ur aimless life, like - punctuality, discipline, professionalism, etc. (N the paycheck ofcourse!!)

Then there r these other thigs which no one will train and certify u for, but u will eventually learn at your workplace, like:

1. To controll your smile when your boss is being yelled at by their boss, its incredibly difficult, u smile n then suddenly u have to act like u dint coz ur boss is embarassed and wants to see how u reacted the first thing.. but ur system automatically rejects the straight face n the smile comes back again . if i can depict it in smiley format it would look something like this :) :I :) :I :D :I :( . And thats how I learnt to "keep a straight face when you want to roflmao"
(Also at no times u must laugh when the jokes on ur boss.)

2. To yawn without opening your mouth, this takes a lot of practise and your nostrils flare while at it and u look like hulk for a moment but u really dont want to offend the person who is having the effect on you by yawing in their face. I learnt to "yawn-mouth-shut".

3. You go to the washroom and meet ur boss/colleague. She is in the next stall and she wants to discuss "stuff" and you are not comfortable talking while doing your business. But ull have to....I learnt to "talk in the loo"!! I dont even want to go into the gross details of having to ignore the background noises and i half hope and unhope that u get the picture.

4. When you u meet someone in the corridoor, meeting rooms, cafteria here n there ...and u automatically say- Good morning How r u?? u both r walking with a purpose and the person doesnt even care to answer and asks -Hey- Good morning how r u?? even u dont reply and walk off. I got used to the- "I dont care how u r, but ill still ask for the heck of it".

5. Then there r the times when you dont have any work to do, so u think y not watch some movie online (coz the connection speed is so uber awesome), and then u go one step ahead and also take the liberty to skype all your friends one by one and eventually ur laughing n talking out loud and having an "online pardy". And there comes ur boss (mostly attractd to u by all the commotion) at that time u have to act all serious all of a sudden and pretend that u r so bored, so much so that u feel wasted coz u dont have no work to do and immediately shit load of unimportant work is thrown at u. Alas!! I learnt to pretend to be "bored when am not".

6. Then u have these co workers who are absent most of the time (coz they have family, kids, and better things to do than come to work) and then they emotionally black mail u to do their work (coz they think u r this single girl who dsnt have better things to do than come to work (which is true...but still)). You have to learn to say No to them even if u r a nice person n have fallen for their "my kid was so sick story" u just have to tell them that its not ur job. It took me long time to, but I learnt to be the "Heartless Bitch". !!! Applause !!!

...That and more.....

If I ever become a career counsellor for young graduates, I will charge to train and certify them for the above mentioned. Apart from that, I see no applicability of this in my future house wife role (hopefully).