白领美丽英文诵典365 -057 Attitude in the Workplace

Attitude in the workplace

Your attitude in the workplace can be one of the most telling aspect of how others in the company look at you and feel about you as a co-worker.

A first impression can be a hard thing to shake especially if it’s a bad one. In other words, once you have gotten a workplace reputation as being lazy, a slacker, a whiner¹ or other negative tag, it can be hard to get rid of.

Think of someone you’ve worked with who perhaps didn’t work as hard as you expected them to and then think about how you felt about every time you had to work with them.

Perception is often reality and once people get an idea in their head about someone or something, it can be difficult to get them to think differently.

In my experience, your attitude in the workplace can sometimes define you more than the work you actually produce if your co-workers come to see you as someone who is reliable, competent, intelligent and someone that they can rely one.

When I think about people I’ve worked with who I’ve seen in a positive light, they tend to be people who outwardly display a positive attitude in the workplace.

They tend to take the initiative and are reliable. They are someone that you look forward to working with. They don’t complain or bad mouth their company or co-workers and basically get on with the job at hand. They don’t wander around bothering other people because they are doing their own job.

Basically, they are people who would be missed if they left the company.

Having formerly worked for a company that regularly laid off staff, I were generally regarded as being staff who didn’t display these positive traits and therefore weren’t seen as being employees who needed to remain employed

1 whiner   

n.哀鸣者，啜泣者，悲嗥者，哀诉者

参考例句：

• He was a whiner, always complaining of the costs in his Family business. 他整天嘀嘀咕咕，老是埋怨自己的家族企业开销太大了。 来自教父部分
• And finally, make sure your boss sees you as a winner and not a whiner. 最后，确定你的老板认为你是一个成功者，而不是一名哀诉者。 来自互联网