5 Worst Office Habits

If you're about to tell your co-workers about your kinky underwear habits, just stop

(NEWSER) - Discussions about shaving one's private parts over lunch. Dishing details about your husband's kinky underwear habits while pouring coffee. It's official, writes Elizabeth Bernstein, "the TMI phenomenon has invaded the workplace," and we have no one to blame but ourselves. Sure, Facebook and the confessional culture of reality TV has made it normal to share every salacious—and dull—detail with anyone who has ears, but we've also begun confusing co-workers with friends. More»

To get ahead, steer clear of religion, politics, and 'The Office'

(NEWSER) - A thoughtful holiday gift for your boss can smooth out your workday and even help your career. But not all gifts are created equal. David Seaman of The Street lists some to avoid:

• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: A self-help or management book "implies that you don't think they are at all effective at what they do."
• "A creepy holiday card": It "could get forwarded straight to HR and then you've got a real problem on your hands."

(NEWSER) - It’s all well and good that women in the workplace have dropped the power suit for more feminine attire, but does it have to come with "yards of cleavage," micro-minis, and peekaboo bra straps? Relaxed attire has wandered way into bimbo territory, and it's a big mistake, magazine editor Maureen Rice writes in the Daily Mail. Rice recently interviewed an applicant who “should have been my star candidate,” but whose “spray-on” dress sent a message: “this woman is not intelligent, and she does not respect me or herself.” More»

It can be done, with help from the expert

(NEWSER) - Planning a summer vacation? It may be harder than you think to get away from your needy colleagues, but with “aggressive, simultaneous upward and downward management,” it can be done, writes Stanley Bing in Fortune:

• First, get the boss’s permission and make sure your subordinates know you’ve claimed the dates. “Establishing a bona fide vacation is a war. Yours should not be a casualty.”

Raymond Charles Foley urinated on those belonging to 'attractive females'

(NEWSER) - If your office chair seems a little damp ... well, you might want to find another one. A 59-year-old Des Moines man was charged with criminal mischief yesterday after turning himself in for peeing on the chairs of his Farm Bureau colleagues. Security cameras installed after mysterious stains began appearing on chairs in the fall apparently caught Raymond Charles Foley in the act. His targets: "attractive females" the IT worker tracked down using the agency's photo-filled database, reports the Register . More»