A Public Service Message by FarQuest
1. You ought to cover your mouth with ur hand/handkerchief or tissue paper (avoid using dupatta…doesn’t give a good look) when you yawn, cough or sneeze
2. There’s this phrase "Excuse Me"…it costs one nothing to use it..trust me it doesn’t, however, it certainly does cost some muscular energy when you try to push others and get your way out. Use this phrase and CONSERVE ENERGY!
3. Looking on the monitor of the person sitting next to you in a lab, at office or anywhere else unless u r asked to is against etiquettes
4. "Busy" or "DND" status on IM means the person is BUSY…DO NOT DISTURB unless u have something really important to ask or tell. Messages such as "What r u doing?" do not qualify as important or urgent.
5. When the person looks completely engrossed in work and you know his/her deadline to submit work is approaching fast, standing on his/her head and talking about stuff such as "You know I went shopping yesterday or I went for dinner yesterday" is just not appropriate
6. When somebody’s speaking, etiquettes require you to remain silent until he/she completes. Interruption is often irritating.
This Public Service Message is brought to you by FarQuest because it’s author feels victimized when all these etiquettes are not observed 
Sorry!
Comment by Ali Raza Shaikh — January 16, 2008 @ 12:13 am
Good work!
Number 1 is definitely top-priority, since sneezing spreads germs otherwise.
BTW, when I used to go to work, I had a pair of earphones stuck in my ears for most of the time that I was at my desk, so people didn’t really bother to bother me until it was something really urgent. Therefore, the fifth one didn’t really apply.
Also, when I am really busy and can’t afford to chat, I generally sign out of instant messenger(s). Really important messages can, at such times, be conveyed through email. I used to have the microsoft outlook/outlook express window minimised at all times. So, number 4 also didn’t really apply.
Comment by Sidhusaaheb — January 16, 2008 @ 1:19 am
hehe…welcome to the real world…
Comment by UTP — January 16, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
These habits certainly are annoying to various degrees. I tend to work around these.
1. I haven’t really faced this much. Besides, I like keeping some distance between me and others.
2. You do realize that the obvious response to “Excuse Me” is “Excused”?
3. That’s a rather annoying habit that some people have. But I distrust computers which I don’t control, so I don’t really do anything private on them.
4. When I’m busy, I simply ignore unwanted messages.
5. I have a lot of practice working while someone is talking. Talkers of that variety don’t really pay attention to you. So I shift to auto-pilot, saying “Yeah” and “Oh”
6. I don’t talk all that much, and I’m a good listener. I stay silent unless provoked
Comment by waqas — January 17, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
Most irritating is 5th one when people come and buzzing gossips or rather pouring hell of questions about current assignment…
Comment by aashely — January 19, 2008 @ 8:29 pm
Ahh, I so very much want to write “Chal Oye”
BTW, when you are busy simply sign out from the messenger thats the best remedy. And point 5 bothers me not much, coz I listen all, but actually listens none
Ask me what someone said I was listening intently in 10 mins and I’ll be like Huh :/
:P
Happy swimming through the real world problems as UTP said
Comment by Asma — January 20, 2008 @ 5:33 am
I second your public messages
…. usually people ignore these ethics which is really irritating but we can’t blame people for our failure or lost … so prevention is better 
Comment by Muhammad Qasim Pasta — January 20, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
I agree with you whole-heartedly …………..
Comment by Maryam — January 21, 2008 @ 8:47 am
For me , the most irritating one is addressed by point 3. Being monitored by someone is very irritating. what I usually do, I turn my monitor towards him/her and request him to have a better look and I will carry on my own task later,
. Sometimes when I much pis**d off by them, I ask them straight why are you staring here, don’t you have other things to do. 
. This has worked on most of the occasion 
Comment by Syed Faraz Mahmood — January 21, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
what is it.. office space 101? .. If you dont know all this, you shouldnt be working at the first place..
Comment by Ali — January 27, 2008 @ 1:25 am
Not just you who feel victimized… others like poor me as well
Comment by lubz — January 28, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
Sorry.
Comment by Rakesh — January 31, 2008 @ 10:57 am
@Ali and Rakesh
Sorry?? For what?? Oh u r feeling sorry for me…you should should
@Sidhusaaheb
Earphones…I soo want to get them now and u already know the reason
Yaar I need to stay signed in bcoz some of our team mates in US communicate with us thru IM at times
@UTP
Thankoo Thankooo…but real world is not pleasing me at all
@Waqas
1. There exist people who soo r in a mood to sit on ur head and then talk
and I just can’t work while someone is prattling right next to me
2. Yeah only if people take the pain to utter these two words
3. I also avoid doing nething private on public pcs but still yaar…. I don’t understand why the person right next to me is soo interested in knowing about what I’m working on
4. I’m so kind na…i find that rude
5. I do the same hoping that they wud shut up but they don’t
6.What about meetings??..when u r explaining a very imp point to a manager and suddenly someone interrupts to make his/her silly point…arggg
Comment by Fariha Akhtar — February 6, 2008 @ 11:39 pm
@Asma
“Chal Oye” aise bolte hain choti si behan ko
Yaar I can’t sign out of messenger na…some of my colleagues…the ones in US sometime have to talk to us through IM aur chalo agar messenger se sign out kar bhi loon tu loag LAN chat par dimagh kha jaatay hain
@M. Qasim Pasha
Yup….i hav found prevention for problem no. 5…u’ll soon find me with a MP3 player or at least earphones
@Maryam
Thank u sister
Comment by Fariha Akhtar — February 6, 2008 @ 11:49 pm
@Aashely
Hain na hain na…and we so want to punch them at that time
@Syed Faraz
Faraz..I seriously wish..i could be gutsy enough to asking them y the hell they r looking into my pc…..mujh se kyoon nahi hota
@Ali
No…my blog wher I should talk about whatever I feel like talking about
Welcome to my blog!
@Lubz
Lubz meri behan….whose friend r u after all?
Comment by Fariha Akhtar — February 6, 2008 @ 11:53 pm