Team Player Myths & Truths #1

MYTH: You’re not a Team Player if you’re consistently the first person to leave the office at the prescribed quitting time.

TRUTH: If you’re leaving at the right time, it’s probably because you know what you’re doing and you have all your work done, but because you’ve left on time, your Team Player co-workers (who you keep in business by actually getting something done) will spend the rest of the evening talking about how you don’t carry your share of the work load.

But don’t worry, they’ll smile at you the next morning and treat you like somebody they didn’t backstab for most of the previous evening.