By Stephen Bucaro

Most people think that if they kiss bosses butt, boss will like them and they will have a secure job with good advancement. Wrong!

To a business organization, an employee is just a tool, like a mop or shovel. When tool gets old or is no longer needed, it's out door without a flinch. If you kiss bosses butt, they may smile at you and talk nice to you, but in reality they're thinking you're weak and pitiful. They will not hesitate to give you crap assignments and use you as a fall guy for their mistakes.

You can have a secure job with good advancement - and keep your self-respect if you follow rules below.

- In business organizations, people gather into "clicks". A click is a group of employees organized for purpose of covering each others butt. This allows each member of a click to pass blame for their mistakes onto other click. In end, one click successfully destroys chances for advancement of members of other click. (Or gets other click tossed out of company entirely).

Never join a click. Always claim to be a devoted subject of managers so high in organization that most of employees don't have access to them. Always claim to be dedicated to "what's best for company". Avoid taking sides in any issue that clicks are doing battle over. By taking a side, you will be joining a click.

There is no sure way to tell which click will win in end. The click that seems to be winning today could get caught in a big screw-up tomorrow, and be out door. Never join a click.

- Never associate with co-workers or your boss outside of work. If you associate with a co-worker outside of work, you will be joining that co-workers click by default. If you associate with your boss outside of work, in order to avoid accusations of favoritism, your boss will be forced to give you crap assignments. Keep your work associations and your after work relationships completely separate.

- Never bad-mouth a co-worker or a boss. No matter how private you think a conversation is, it WILL get out. And when it does - you will have joined a click. The fact is, you don't need to bad-mouth a co-worker or a boss. Although it may not seem like it, everybody already knows who big screw-ups in company are.

- Always bad-mouth everybody and everything outside company. Bad-mouth suppliers. Bad-mouth contractors. Bad-mouth consultants. Bad-mouth government. Bad-mouth everything outside company. That's right - company's problems are not caused by stupid lazy employees and managers. All company's problems are caused by things outside company.

=> Get ahead by taking initiative and volunteering for assignments nobody else wants - Wrong!