Conducting Personal Business on Company Time

The company e-mail and phone systems are for company business. Keep personal phone calls brief and few -- and never take a call that will require a box of tissues to get through. Also, never type anything in an e-mail that you don't want read by your boss; many systems save deleted messages to a master file. And we can't tell you how many poor souls have gotten fired for hitting the "Reply All" button and disseminating off-color jokes -- or worse yet -- rants about their boss for all to see.

在上班时间处理私人事务

公司的邮件和电话系统是为了公司业务。使私人电话少而简短——并且永远不要打那种用掉一盒纸巾才能打完的电话。同样，永远不要在邮件里键入任何你不想被你的老板看到的东西；许多系统将删除的消息保存到一个管理员文件夹。并且我们无法告诉你多少可怜的家伙已经因为点击“回复所有”按钮或传播低俗笑话——或更糟 ——怒骂老板被所有人看到而被炒鱿鱼的。