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Corporate card etiquette for the workplace?
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Posted by thenovelist Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:07:06 PST
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0 responses 0 comments What would Cubicle Dweller think if she were told to have corporate card etiquette? Would she even sign a card if passed into her cubicle? Or would she put a sticker on the card, pour Prozac all over it and write a note with an arrow that says, "Scratch and sniff"?

Everyone should know I’m a closet reader of Cubicle Dweller. She’s Bakersfield’s eyes to the cubicle life at the mysterious county offices of Kern. She takes medication, and often her co-workers push her to the brink of insanity where she nearly takes more than her recommended daily allowance. And it’s all true! Talk about snoring during your career. I once survived a county cubicle for around eight months. That’s about five dog years. Sure, I was in the more flamboyant marketing department. But there was still a little grey cloud hanging over my desk the same color as the partitions.

I shouldn’t complain. I work in a corporate environment today as well. But it’s not nearly as dry as working for Kern County, where cubicles could be filled with plastic flowers and you’d think: that’s normal.

My own unpublished Cubicles novel takes the corporate world and smashes in a dose of philosophy. I wrote it before The Office TV show, but after Office Space the movie. It’s a weird tale of office romance and is filled with enlightenment-filled axioms and non-etiquette reasoning.

Speaking of corporate etiquette, I had a big realization today after being tipped off to watch a Wall Street Journal video on corporate card etiquette. Yes, you heard it right: Corporate Card Etiquette. If you’ve been the recipient of having a card passed around at your workplace, and you never knew what to write, well, there is an answer out there for you. Sarah E. Needlemen not only wrote an entire careerjournal.com article titled, “Tips for Signing Office Cards When Inspiration Is Lacking,” she even stars in a video (Click on 'Video clip' under 'Related Links' in the middle of the article).

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N.L. Belardes is a blogger and novelist out of Bakersfield, CA. You can find him on myspace too...

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