Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage.
How to win friends and influence colleagues
The worst sins that office workers can commit in the eyes of colleagues are interrupting people on the phone, talking loudly in front of someone’s desk and arriving late (1) _______ a meeting. It is almost (2) _______ bad to eat at your desk, make personal phone calls or leave coffee cups (3) _______ around, according to Bodytalk, a guide published by the Industrial Society, (4) _______ lists the 30 traits most likely to annoy colleagues.
High on the list are signing on at someone else’s computer terminal (5) _______ signing off afterwards, messing up the photocopier by jamming the paper or leaving it set to produce multiple copies. Reading newspaper, doodling, chewing gum, keeping cuddly toys or ornaments on your desk, and putting up postcards or supposedly witty slogan (6) _______ invite disapproval. Also unpopular are (7) _______ who never fetch a colleague a drink from the machine, or who (8) _______ to hold the lift door open when others are approaching. (9) _______ conduct, according to the guide’s author, Judi James, not only gives you an unprofessional image but is downright anti-social and could result (10) _______ dismissal.
The worst sins that office workers can commit in the eyes of colleagues are interrupting people on the phone, talking loudly in front of someone’s desk and arriving late (1) _______ a meeting.
