1. Show up
2. On time
3. Work hard
4. Be kindI do wish many of my students understood just how far the first three of these rules will get you. Number four is a bonus, and at the least should always be practiced DOWN: be nice to office staff, building service workers, groundskeepers, wait staff, and the like, since they are essential and doing what are quite often terrible jobs. Sycophantic sucking up to power, however, is a type of “kindness” always to be avoided.
via Politicalprof [adapted from George Takei’s Facebook page]