By working in an office or firm you are compensated with your salary.  As you are working there, your employer is paying you, it is definitely true!  But apart from working there for salary, you also have to maintain certain etiquette and manners, which is a very important part of your duties.  If you keep on thes forever you will definitely be appraised by everyone and get recognition.  Here are some of them.

DRESS NEATLY

In any office, your dressing and appearance is an important thing.  Do not go to office hurriedly with the dress unpressed.  Also check up whether the dress you wear is not torn anywhere.  It should be one which is washed.  The dress should not be necessarily a costly one but should be a neatly appeared.  People should identify you as a person with good dressing always.  Even after rushing to the office, you should comb your hair neatly and take care of yourself to neat afresh.

Wear a clean footwear.  Do not where sportswear or casual one, which degrades you in an office.  Do make your footwear always shining if it is shoes.  Whether is is a tie, a belt or an identity card, it should not be maintained casually.  Remember it is not your house, its an office, where you find a lot of people come to you to deal with you.

BE POLITE

Always be polite with your customers or clients and also with your colleagues.  Do not talk with a louder voice and do not make loud laughters, which turns every one in the premises toward you and gives a very bad impression.  If you want cough or sneeze, use your hanky or tissue paper and also excuse yourself.  Whenever you want to interrupt any other one in the office never forget to ask their permission or knocking their cabin.

KEEP SMILING

Smile is a natural adornment on every one's face.  Only human beings have this great feeling, which makes others also very happy.  So keep smiling in the office and deal with your clients, by which you can find most of your things are done so easily and casually.  You can win a lot of hearts with smiling a little bit.  Not only your manners but the smile also fetches you great rewards in your routine.  This gives you immense pleasure and inspire you to work more.

NO GOSSIPING

Do not gossip with your colleague about someother colleague, as it leads to lot of disturbances and misunderstandings an office.  A friendly atmosphere is to be always maintained by you, which makes you non-controversial, even if you do not spare with the politics in the office.  The most important thing is to control your emotions in such kind of environment.

RESPECT

You should respect not only your boss, but also your colleagues and customers.  Even your juniors also are to be treated with respect.  Giving respect to every one makes you more respected by any one in office.  A very pleasant environment is created by you if you behave with everybody with respect. Saying, "Thank you", "Sorry", "You are welcome" will impress your colleagues.

NEATNESS

Apart from appearing neatly, you should reflect the same thing in your work also.  Have some patience while writing or in keying the matter through computer.  Strikings, errors and corrections make your work appeared clumsy and ugly, which gives no impression to anybody.  Spare some time to achieve the perfection.  Also maintain your workplace neatly.  Your belongings and office stationery before you should be kept in an array, which gives you lot of pleasantness to your colleagues, customers and even your boss.

PUNCTUALITY

At times, you will find your clients sitting in the counter, in front of your seat, waiting for you.  When you do not go in time, obviously it gives you a guilty feeling, if you go late, particularly when you deal with clients.  In fact, even if you do not deal with customers, your colleagues should not feel that you are always or often being a late comer to the office.  So get ready to office well-in-time, and see yourself reached within time daily.

Whenever you give an appointment to anyone or gave a landmark to your colleague or customer to meet at a specific time, try to arrive at least before 5 minutes or at least at right time.  If you are being late, inform the other person by calling him before you reache the place.  And do not forget to beg pardon for your delay, after reaching there.

It was our last day at school. After ten years of stay which had grown into a deep attachment we were leading it. Every face looked sad. The headmaster was in his best dress but we missed that joy which his face had worn on other occasions parting is no joke.

At 9 a.m. we assembled in the school-lawn for a photograph. The chairs were reserved for the teacher and the back benches for the tall boys. Being short in stature I sat in front, cross-legged. Every one tried to put on the best look. Some paraded their watches, other their fountain-pens and yet other lovely flower. The camera man carried us through regular gymnastic exercises. At his behest we tried to wear smiles on our faces, though there were no smiles in the hearts. The camera clicked and all was over.

Thereafter we retired into the school hall where covers had been laid for two hundred persons. The ninth class had stood a party to us it was a sumptuous party-sweets, fruits and my favorite curd char. The headmaster, our dear old man went from seat patting every boy. He has me an extra dish of chart which I accepted so gleefully.

We then went to the meeting-room for the farewell function. The proceedings began with a delicious song of farewell by a ninth class student. It was so full of pathos that tears came to every eve. One of us actually began to sob. The song was followed by a speech by the monitors of the 9th class who read out from a manuscript. He referred to the happy days that we had all spent together and exhorted us to remember the school and our companions.

There was then skit on ‘life at school’. One student tried to parody the science lessons. There was a roar of laughter when in one breath he pronounced calcium carbonate, sodium phosphate, and milk chocolate.

The monitor of the tenth class thanked the teachers the parental love with which they had taught us. The function was wound up by the headmaster who in a brief speech advised us to work hard because the country needs work and yet more work. We should always place our country before self he exhorted us to be karma yogis.

At the conclusion of the function a copy of the Gait was presented to each outgoing student as a souvenir.

Good order and discipline are the very life-breath of civilized life. What is a world of difference is there between a disciplined unit of army and mob. Now discipline is of two kinds; one is imposed from outside and the other comes from within. It was this latter discipline that feeds and is fed by democracy. The discipline in a dictatorship is a steel-frame into which every body has to fit himself. There’s not to reason why. In democracy, however, it is the people that rules.

The British are the most democratic people in the world. Their democratic experiment started in the 13th century. The democratic spirit, therefore, has been infused in their very sow and this has made them a discipline is the most evidence in time of war. During the Second World War when bombes were raining on London the English had steeled himself to go about his job, unperturbed by what was happening. When rationing was introduced every English man accepted it with full sense of responsibility and discipline. No one, however highly placed he was, would abuse his position to obtain more than was his due. This is a sign of maturity, prudence, self discipline.

We Indians have to go along way before we can call ourselves disciplined in this sense. The story of or rationing system makes very sordid reading. Profiteering and block-marketing are so rampant. In time emergency, when the enemy was knocking at our gates, our businessmen concealed their stocks of kerosene oil and petrol. When shall we learn to be disciplined sons of the soil? Our present democracy is only skin-deep. Hope! We should throw indiscipline things and proud to be a Indian.    

We live in an age of interdependence. In a factory hundreds of workers, labor together. They are all cogs in the big wheel. If any one cog gets late the machine cannot get going. All others have to wait till this cog, this worker arrives. It is therefore everybody’s sacred obligation to be punctual to a second.

The same may be said of a school teacher. If he arrives late even though by five minutes, the entire class of one hundred students is kept waiting. The total loss of time is 500 minutes one has only to recognize the magnitude of the loss to make punctuality a principle of conduct.

In our country we often hear the phrase Indian time. One cannot but hand down one’s head in shame that even hours have meaning for us. Here is a meeting to be addressed by a minister. Ten thousand persons have assembled from far and near. People wait and wait and the minister dose not turn up. Songs are sung and gramophone records are played to keep the audience engaged. Every now and then same one shouts from the platform that the minister ascends the dais and without even an apology starts his sermon, probably on the subject of punctuality in the west.

In medical profession, time is equal to soul. Because some persons may lose their life cause of some minutes late. Doctors and nurses must have social responsibility to keep punctuality. Because they are imagined by people as a god in their heart.

We have yet to learn the value of time. It was said of Kant, that people used to correct their watches when he went out for his morning stroll. How one wishes that we Indians could get a leaf out of that great man’s book!