Since I started working on May, I'm always late. Not by minutes, but hours. Last month I logged the hour I arrived at my desk every day and calculated I'm on average 1.5 hour late.
I've been trying very hard to change this behaviour. My boss tells me all I need to do to get a promotion is to con...
this is a question I'm not sure if should be here or not, it definitely has a good element of workplace to it but the question is fundamentally not really a workplace isseu
Also, in an unrelated but frustrating note, why does gmail auto cut all previous email in a reply? this is obnoxious
@RhysW Well that's good advice in general, but there's at least one very entertaining activity that I'd like to keep in the bedroom, regardless of how it affects my sleeping patterns. — Yannis Rizos24 mins ago
I kinda get how it saves a draft if you hit reply but don't type...but I don't get why it saves a draft when you have no text, To field or subject...I end up with those on occasion too
Summary
Accept it is partially your problem too
Review your communication as best possible from a "what does this come across as" perspective
Focus on why vs what
(practical non-comprehensive list of suggestions)
Practice, practice, practice
Step One
Before we start, let's address this:
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for example, this question is no more "workplace focused" than the productivity question
@enderland Except that the "how can I be assertive" question says "...in the workplace" etc etc (about interpersonal communication between colleagues) and the one in question is very specifically (per the OP at one point) about lacking personal discipline.
Secondarily, I think if we look at how the comments have gone, it's rapidly moved to a very localized question about the OP's personal habits. The only workplace thing is "My boss tells me all I need to do to get a promotion is to consistently arrive on time," which is to me still just a "how do I change my personal behavior" question...
....I'm making an assumption that lacking personal discipline/not being on time is not unique to the work environment.
But hey! That's why there are discussions, here and among mods, and @BenBrocka was supposed to do something as his last gasp as a mod....
@enderland I made a few suggestions to SE, and @jmort253 was my first choice. Lots of other great candidates (I recommended four others), but James had (imho) the most balanced Meta/main participation and was already familiar with the tools (he's a mod on Project Management).
...not assuming that they listened to me in any way though, my first choice becoming a moderator is probably entirely coincidental.
@YannisRizos Going out on a limb here (not really), I'm pretty sure jmort (oh hey, his name is James...I just always call him jmort in my head) was on the top of a few different people's lists. Go with "great minds think alike".
Summary
Accept it is partially your problem too
Review your communication as best possible from a "what does this come across as" perspective
Focus on why vs what
(practical non-comprehensive list of suggestions)
Practice, practice, practice
Step One
Before we start, let's address this:
...
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