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Debrett’s unveils etiquette guide for hybrid working

Workplace Insight

Try to eliminate chaotic bookshelves, discarded clothing, empty take-away containers and distracting artwork. It is also very bad form to carry on working while on a call; everybody will realise your mind is elsewhere and hear the incriminating clatter of your keyboard. Evaluate your video background.

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

Men With Pens

Charles Johnson, author of the 1724 book, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates , described Teach as “such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” He spent his money as he earned it – on fine clothes, good food, and busty wenches.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

This company is so ginormous I am having a dizzy time of trying to wrap my brain around what all they do – various forms of power, civil engineering, and then the IT services side of it. There’s just something about the built in keyboard and touchscreen on the Torch that I like. I am the EA to the CEO of a global conglomerate.

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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Possibly behind that couch in the corner, the one buried under boxes and old clothes. It would be much easier to keyboard it but I know it wouldn’t have the same effect as writing it by hand. I do feel much more comfortable with a keyboard than hand though. That story you thought of in 1999 is still in there, somewhere.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Go to Building A to procure form D and turn it into person C. I can say one thing, you sure have fire in your pen( or should I say keyboard) but I totally agree that all those years in college and unversity acquiring a B.A So far so good I suppose. University also taught me how to jump through hoops. Keep up the great work!!

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

Just once in a while… I find I have those moments as well, and if you’re not right there with the pen or the keyboard, then you’ve lost it. was that Kevin seems to believe in what he does as a form of expression. As Kevin mentioned, it’s a form of control. Just grasp that moment, eh? And it’s kind of sad.

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