Workplace Etiquette Quiz

You disagree with a point your boss made at your weekly brainstorming session. You:

• Randomly blurt your opposition in front of everyone

• Politely disagree and suggest an alternative idea

• Ask to meet personally with your superior once the session is done to voice your objections

• Complain to your coworkers behind your boss’s back

Your office culture allows you to keep personal items on your desk and in your cubicle. You:

• Fill your desk with pictures of family and friends, kids’ artwork, favorite knick knacks

• Balance personal and office items in your cubicle. One in five objects on your desk can be personal

• Avoid displaying anything other than work-related items on your desk. It is inappropriate to your attention.

• Your cubicle is a mess of scattered papers, so you do not have any space for personal items

Emails should be replied to within ___ hours while phone calls should be returned within ___ hours.

• 48, 24

• 24, 4

• 4, 24

• 24, 24

You are running 15 minutes late to a meeting with a client. What should you do?

• Stop what you’re working on and leave for the meeting immediately

• The client is your friend, he will wait as long as you want

• Your client won’t mind waiting, 15 minutes is nothing

• Call the client and tell him that you’ll be there in a few minutes

It is a Casual Friday, but you have a meeting with a client. How should you dress that day?

• Casually

• A little nicer than usual, but nothing too formal

• In your pajamas

• In business casual

You should avoid taking sick days at all costs.

• True

• False

A coworker is playing music through his computer speakers loud enough to hear down the hall. You should:

• Start singing along. If you can't beat them, join them.

• Put on your headphones and sulk.

• Turn up the music on your own computer.

• Nicely walk over and say that while you are a huge fan of Bachman Turner Overdrive, you are having trouble concentrating. Ask politely if he wouldn't mind listening through headphones.

There's a collection being taken in the office for a coworker's baby shower. You're a little strapped for cash, but you don't want to be rude. When asked to chip in, you:

• Grudgingly hand over a few bucks.

• Lie and say you were planning to get a separate gift for the person.

• Politely decline and say you can't contribute.