Success in the workplace: Donuts

Just thought I’d share a few tips for success at work that I’ve picked up over my long career:
1. Send emails (like this one) at crazy hours of night or really early in the morning so that people think you work absurdly long hours.
2. Get a helper monkey to answer the phone. If no monkeys are available, an undergraduate will work nearly as well.
3. Organize a weekly event involving donuts. Get someone else to set up the event, and recruit volunteers to pay the costs. Then, send out an irreverent invitation each week, with your name and websites all over it, so that you get all the glory (such as it is).
-MLJ

PS->Donuts this week courtesy the Alberto Lab’s own Sara Schaal. Although Sara spells her name the evil way, with no H, she is actually a pretty good person. Before she came to work in the lab, she operated her own knife-fighting academy out of her basement. That’s why she’s so great at slicing donuts. Ask to see her moves at your own risk.