Office etiquette

dosry5

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There is a debate going on in my office about the proper way to utilize the folding tabs on a file folder. The universally accepted office practice is to fold them down and out, away from each other, as seen below:

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We now have a few noobs in the unit and they started folding tabs like the below pic:
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What manner of jackassery is this? Who the hell does this? Is this how millennials are taught in school to use a file folder? I fear for our future.

Who comes into the office as a new troop and immediately bucks the system like this?
 
Back in the day, ours came with a little metal belt around one of the tabs. In order to use the locking mechanism, you had to fold in and tuck the other into the belt. Sorry, but I vote for "in."
 
There is a debate going on in my office about the proper way to utilize the folding tabs on a file folder. The universally accepted office practice is to fold them down and out, away from each other, as seen below:

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We now have a few noobs in the unit and they started folding tabs like the below pic:
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What manner of jackassery is this? Who the hell does this? Is this how millennials are taught in school to use a file folder? I fear for our future.

Who comes into the office as a new troop and immediately bucks the system like this?

I used to us the accos and to make them work you fold the tabs inward like an American and someone without severe mental disorders.
 
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With these report covers you have no choice but to fold them in so I vote in. However, folded out does look more elegant.

But I haven't used the files you are showing in 20 years. I have this electronic computer do-hickey.
 
Maybe the better debate is why you are using paper folders in the first place. Join the 21st century and use computers.

This is my thought. Office etiquette at this point for me is to open hand slap somebody who wants to give me a piece of paper.
 

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