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madoka · Joined: 27 Mar 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090115/lf_nm_life/us_jobs_manners

SYDNEY (Reuters) � Manners maketh the businessman, with a global survey finding Americans and Britons to be the most easily insulted by lack of workplace etiquette, while Australians are among the most offensive.

The survey, by Australian-based international office space provider Servcorp, listed the top five most offensive workplace behaviors as not saying hello or good morning, not offering office guests a beverage, speaking loudly across the room, using swear words and taking calls on mobile phones.

The use of stationery without permission and asking colleagues about their personal lives were also deemed insulting.

The poll then revealed the United States and Britain to be the most sensitive nations in the world, despite 60 percent of respondents believing Japan has the strictest work etiquette.

English and American businessmen were also more easily offended than their colleagues in the Middle East, Japan and China, nations with cultural traditions spanning centuries.

Almost 25 percent of Australians, however, thought it was perfectly acceptable to swear -- something the majority of Japanese and Middle Easterners found deeply offensive.

Nearly all Australians polled also said they would not think twice about addressing their boss by their first name, something Chinese business people found very rude.

Australians also regularly talk loudly at work, take personal calls and ask too many personal questions, the survey showed.

"Being aware of potentially offensive behavior is a key factor to Australian business success abroad," Taine Moufarrige, Servcorp's executive director, said in a statement.

"Australians are very natural in their business style, perhaps more so than any other country in the world," she said, adding that the survey, which was sent to some 700 businesspeople in 13 countries, was commissioned to help Australians.

The survey found that although they are not easily offended, Australians were more ticked off than their international colleagues by business people who don't buy drinks and who don't offer guests beverages.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

An Australian or a group of Aussies made the claim that Aussie workers are among the rudest in the world?

Makes a nice headline, but sounds doubtful, maybe "informal" wouldn't be as eye-catching.

SOOHWA101 · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

D.D. · Joined: 29 May 2008

I use to have Australian employees. If you ever tell them "no" you have made an enemy for life. They will steal and sabotage your company.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Yeah you may be right soohwa. Swearing and getting overly personal with co-workers while at work isn't cool. Best to save that behaviour for off time.

SOOHWA101 · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:27 am Post subject:

sojourner1 · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:31 am Post subject:

If it said Korean, this post would not be. Pulled!!! Of course, I'm not out to say Koreans are the rudest. I'm out to say that mankind on the Earth is what it is. Out to make money and pollute the world with no regard to the fact we're destroying the natural environment of our planet. Who's the rudest? People wanting to get ahead at all costs with no consideration for anything or anyone.

IMF crisis · Joined: 27 Mar 2008

Patheitic thread. Pathetic attempt. Pathetic OP.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

sojourner1 · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject:

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Ok sure. Did you just call me a "bonehead"?

because that sounds uncool.

I respect your opinions sojourner and usually I enjoy your run on sentences. But come on man, are you serious about this save the planet crap? That stuff makes me laugh and cringe. A bunch of do-gooders who have nothing better to do.

Look, the real problem is what goes on in your head. My head too, and everybody's head really. Figure that out first and then we can talk about the poor seals and whales.

The world is fine. Are you joking me? I think 4.6 billion years is a testament to that, and humans are just passing by.

Yes, we are making a ton of pollution and garbage and have the power now to exterminate everything, and we are greedy selfish assholes, but consider that number for a bit, 4.6 billion or whatever it is, and then think, really, seriously: How insignificant are we?

I'd say we are just a phase in nature's plan, if she has one.

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

Don't I know it. One time I ordered a cheeseburger and the bloke put it on top of a boomerang and threw it at. I guess that's their version of "delivery" down under.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

coffeeNOW · Joined: 05 Feb 2008

Last time I checked it wasn't Australians who completely farked up the global economy for years to come - that would be US and European dickhead bankers encouraged by US and European dickhead politicians to pay themselves exhorbitant amounts of money to take enormous but completely unsupervised risks with other people's money and with no associated consequences.

What would you rather - someone who swears occasionally and calls you by your first name or someone who pays themselves $200 million and casually walks out the door without so much as a backward glance when the bank you work for implodes because of his and his overpaid colleagues' stupidity?