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The entry-level guide to office etiquette

A few years before I began writing "The Gig," when I was starting out as one of the starry-eyed Gen Y staffers I now write about (and still am), I walked to the office printer barefoot. Granted, it was in an office where wearing short sleeves constituted a statement. (Not Fortune, you gossips.) And to my credit, I'd taken my shoes off under my desk and simply forgotten to put them back on. But the veritable uproar this etiquette infraction caused -- we actually had a meeting about it, if I recall -- taught me an invaluable lesson: Nothing ruins your workplace rep like a breach of office etiquette.

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Rick Smith likes to tell stories, and none more than the time his doctor happily announced to him after a routine physical, "Rick, you're completely unremarkable!"