No A**hole Workplace and Business Policy

A job ad sounds serious about its workplace culture and peace

“We've got a 'no a**hole’ policy,” a job ad read. “That means we only work with people we actually like. And we're not just talking about our clients — we're talking about our team members too.”

It’s simply not too much to ask for employers, colleagues, vendors and the people served to ask and expect people to be professional and exercise the standard practice of good manners.

That a “no-a**hole policy” has to be created and implemented is revealing. Most rules are established because someone or some people made it necessary in the minds of management.

Can rules sometimes be overreactions? Absurd even? Certainly. Yet not always.

If only more organizational leaders instituted the “No A**hole Policy” for hiring, promotion and retention, well, what a wonderful world this would be.

If only people — maybe us even — decided not to be that person and acted in an honorable manner, then we wouldn’t see “no a**hole policies” in job listings.

For now though, maybe we should see it more often and verbalized as well.

Michael Toebe writes “Reputation Notes” and is the founder and specialist at Reputation Quality, a practice that serves and assists successful people and organizations in further building reputation as an asset and responsibly, ethically protecting, restoring or reconstructing it.

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