You may talk yourself right out of promotion
OST OF us are all too aware of our major persone
And sometimes the minor ones are the little foxes that spoil the vines, so to speak.
:
The other day a personnel director whom I know was dis- cussing a girl in his office who had failed to get a promotion.
He explained it by saying: "She's a talker."
I
Too much talking
knew exactly what he meant. The tendency to chat too much is something that can make trouble in any career. And all too often the person who indulges in it is totally un- aware of it for, like most habits, It begins insidiously.
First, the chatting in the morning, which, instead of be- ing limited to a pleasant "Hello," turns into a more or less verbatim report of last night's date.
No stopping
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much of a takker you are- and how much time you have wasted.
Then the coffee break, which
It is vitally important to lasts twice as long as it should; break this habit for several rea- then the gathering around the sons.
; water cooler, which turns into Finst of all supervisory fully a gossip session, end so on positions are atmest never given
to the talker. Management from throughout the day.
Sometimes, when we have feels that the talker would lazy
finished a particularly heavy waste too much time and that stint of work, we take a breather she would not set a good before starting the next job, but exemple for the people who Ever since they helped
me from putting me in embarrass-instead of making it a quiet work under her. inflict a crushing defeat ca ing and awkward positions, breather, we make it a "yak Also, people who talk too those infernal rats that Ferhaps, I may never be able session" with one of our co- much are bound to say some wickedly invaded my deck, they to overcome the loss of face
I workers, which may hold her thing harmful sooner or later. have lived a lordly life well suffered the other day when up in the middle of a job she Either they will divulge con-
rather finish after all my guests had as-would
without fidential business which ought not to be discussed, or they will But we have our disagreements sembled at the tble for tea it interruption.
was discovered that there was Actually, the hardest thing say something critical about I remember, once, in a huff, I not a drep of milk in the house. about breaking this habit is somebody who will hear about
making ourselves aware that it and get annoyed. we have it.
above their station.
invited people to advise me сп
how to get rid of these imper. You know where all the milk tient cats who mischievously had gone to? It is such cattish insisted on sleeping in my bed. behaviour that turns me against
are, they them.
Shrewd as they
contented themselves drawing-room sɔfa.
gave that up before. long and And yet I am destined to put with the up with all this cattish behaviour and wickedness for a long, long bed time to come.
new
But turning to the didn't mean turning over a new leaf. Their vexing wƐYS tinued: my irritation persisted.
What to do
Moreover, for the woman over 35. a tendency to talk too much adds a good ten years to her age. Somehow the quiet wOLDADI always seems younger than the gossipy one.
The best way to do that is to jot down on a piece of scrap paper every time you find your self engaging in a conversation on the job which has nothing
If you have this talking to do with the job itself. habit and would like to get over
Two helpful hints
I wonder why of all creatures Chances are you will be aghast con in the world, providence chose at the end of the day at how it here are two pointers
cats to have nine lives instead of one.
They scam to derive a sinister pleasure from antagonis- ing me, from doing what I most earnestly beg them not to do,
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INTERESTING HOBBIES:
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Credit Card to A. H. Ahmed.
MEET THE
MEMBERS
1. Don't ever let yourself be- gia a chat until the work at hand is done. This will cut down about half of the talking.
2. When you feel prompted to engage in some conversation, stife the impulse and jot down on a scratch pad what it was you were planning to say. you will do this, you're likely to find yourself astonished. PAUL T. F. CHAN, 17, when you look it over later, at floor, 154, the nonsense with which you
would have wasted your Co worker's time;
FACES OF COINS—OLD AND NEW student, 4th
animals are the popular models.
DEFORE the time of Christ's birth a Greek state issued a
'coin showing an elephant.
Again, an elephant appears on a coin from Italian Somalla
This coin where ivory tusks often served for money. minted in Rome with a denomination of five centesimi.
Des Voeux-road, Central.
SZETO MEE FONG, 17, student, 2nd
floor, 72, Larch-street.
was
GODFREY TONG,
Ethiopia, which honours King David as ancester of its kings, has taken his symbol of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah to be its own and many coins show the regal lion,
There is a lion on the face of the coins of Lebanon.
The face of the lien of Indian coins is fiercer in exprea- sion; probably' signifying Its harder life in the jungles and rocky mountain areas,
The Portuguese Colony of Angola combined a zebra and elephant in 1942.
Greenland was using a polar bear in 1926.
In Ireland the coins we see have a stallion on one side. and the famous old Irish harp on the other.
Again in Ireland there is the great salmen on some coins. In Darzig, a flounder appears on coins made in 1932. The island of Fiji favours a turtle and in Italy a bee finds itself in some coins,
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GEORGE I
2nd 18, student, floor, 9, Hak Po-street, Kowloon.
ROSALIND YU, student, 1st Canton-road, Kowloon.
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AM an Australian giri, aged 20-very Interested in cor- responding with penfriends over- I was wondering K, [through your newspaper, perhaps, you could help me find - pen- friends In Hongkong.
I would-Ilke to write to both boys and girls of approximately my own age and Interests.
521, floor,
1. Apart from my work, which is as a student teacher at Clare- mont Teachers' College, my main TONY
DESMOND interests are art, reading, photo- TONG, 20, reporter, 3rd graphy, swimming, badminton floor, 5, Elgin-street.
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PHILIP KI, 17, student, 17, Jervois-street, ground floor.
and stamp-collecting,
Barbara Lawn 120 First-avenue Mount Lawley, Perth,
Western Australia.