Things not to do/wear if you don't want to look like a schlub in the office - my top 3

WhyRegisterHere? wrote:

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Nobody with OP's user name gets to tell anyone about anything, ever.

Smug.

Douche.

He is Frankie's cousin.

If I tuck my shirt in, is it ok if I don’t wear a belt?

Anybody who uses the word “schlub” is a schlub!

Anyone who says one criteria for not being a schlub at work is to wear rubber soled dress shoes immediately loses all credibility. Rubber soles are rubber soles. Doesn’t matter how the rest of the shoe looks a rubber sole is for casual shoes. Leather soles or GTFO for a proper dress shoe the will last you for years.

Also bitching when you say “Heres my top 3” and people call you out for only listing 2.

Timmy Fiero wrote:

Anyone who says one criteria for not being a schlub at work is to wear rubber soled dress shoes immediately loses all credibility. Rubber soles are rubber soles. Doesn’t matter how the rest of the shoe looks a rubber sole is for casual shoes. Leather soles or GTFO for a proper dress shoe the will last you for years.

Also bitching when you say “Heres my top 3” and people call you out for only listing 2.

I don't think you know how to read. Wearing rubber soled dress shoes is listed as a thing NOT to do. You are agreeing with the OP.

Ok boomer

If you want to know the time and it could send an awkward or negative message, look at their watch.

Tommy Ferrari wrote:

1) Use your damn phone to check the time. Be a grown up and get a watch. No one of these tick...tick...tick 1X per second quartz movement pieces of garbage, either. An actual grownup mechanical watch. You don't need to break the bank and go out and get a Patek or anything like that. A mid level Hamilton is or something like that is perfectly fine, and should be affordable to anyone with an office job. Pulling out your iPhone to check the time just makes you look like a kid. Which is fine if you are a kid. But you aren't a kid, so get a damn watch.

I purposely avoid watches at work because a sure fire way to get fired, lose a big deal, or mess up an interview is check your watch. It’s a nervous tick for people to look at their watch. If you check your watch when an important person is talking you are telling them you have more important things to do than be there.

My advice is better than your rant for the younger crowd.

ok boomer

I'm a teacher there are clocks everywhere and bells ring every 41 minutes then again 3 minutes later telling us when we can come and go. I stopped wearing a watch a long time ago.

you are a bigot wrote:

Macdaddy wrote:

Nothing to do with “being woke”. Simply calling you out for stating the dumbest thing over heard in a long time.

You got your feelings hurt by an anonymous troll on the internet. Get over it and don’t compare your “suffering” to the likes of slavery.

You didn’t hurt my feelings. I’m just calling out hypocrisy where I see it.

The point is, boomers see "it" everywhere.

runn wrote:

sbeefyk2 wrote:

I purposely avoid watches at work because a sure fire way to get fired, lose a big deal, or mess up an interview is check your watch. It’s a nervous tick for people to look at their watch. If you check your watch when an important person is talking you are telling them you have more important things to do than be there.

My advice is better than your rant for the younger crowd.

I'm a teacher there are clocks everywhere and bells ring every 41 minutes then again 3 minutes later telling us when we can come and go. I stopped wearing a watch a long time ago.

I pray you aren’t an English teacher...

fleeber wrote:

You can have a sense of humor but don't be the "office funny guy".

A lot of the time, the "funny guy" is trying to use jokes to deflect because he doesn't know something or hasn't done something he was supposed to. This is when the routine annoys me.

For example, if I ask the intern when our deposit on a particular contract goes hard, a perfectly acceptable answer in my office would be "our deposit goes hard sooner than you, Tommy: December 6." Ok, so you made a joke, but you answered the question and the whole thing took three seconds. That's fine.

An annoying AF answer would be to say "our deposit goes hard sooner than you, Tommy" and then to just sit there looking at me and hoping I'll forget that I asked the question because you don't actually know the answer. Just say "I don't know" if you don't know, because at that point making a joke makes it look like you're deflecting.

ohia wrote:

agreed w OP, ill add some:

1. get a nice laptop bag. dont carry a backpack or one of those dumb vinyl "targus" or whatever laptop bags. if you want to lvl up, get a nice leather piece

2. posture. carry yourself like an adult, situp in your chair, dont slouch. i am often guilty of this.

3. body language. engage people by looking them in the eye, at least every so often during a convo. use their name during convo. people love hearing their name.

4. maintain proper frame. modulate your voice properly, dont get too high or too low. don't let someone else's tones or inflections knock you off your game or influence you. carry your own internal "metronome"

Must be exhausting being you. Especially that last one. Jesus.

Is the OP from St. Louis or Ohio? None of that stuff applies out west. Work culture is very different depending on location

If you work in an office where they nit pick about that kind of stuff, odds are it's an office where the work doesn't even matter.

If your job is to do important things that only people with your skills can do, then you can proudly look like a "schlub" all you want. That looks better than anything because it signals "MVP."