This piece originally appeared in The Haven on Medium here: Things You Can Do at Work That Require Zero Talent
Be on time
Do your best
Embrace the grind
Use your time wisely
Work through lunch
Stay late
Work through dinner
Don’t take breaks
Don’t take vacations
Respond to emails immediately all the time
Use your spouse’s health insurance
Function without sleep
Stop expecting holiday parties and bonuses
Read a lot of John Maxwell and Zig Ziglar books
Don’t fall for the work/life balance myth
Take calls whenever they come in (at work, at home, on the road, weddings, funerals, baptisms, etc.)
Die of natural causes just before retirement
Understand you are no longer your own
You belong to the company now
A robot can do your job better and cheaper than you
Don’t Give the company a reason to go that route
You know it doesn’t want to, but it will
The company is good and benevolent
Remember, the company is always watching
You owe everything good in your life to the company
The company has given you life, love, and happiness
The company can take it all away