My biggest mistake was sharing each other’s salary with my teammates and people who came for intern who would later become my teammates.
Hard lesson learnt.
I had a long contract in a large power-supply organization. At least 60% of the staff were South Asian, some supplied by the main systems vendor, some by a truly bad support company based in India, and a few directly employed. Most of them sent everything they could back to their families, and lived in cramped communal housing.
Company etiquette was: no suits, no ties, no obvious jewellery, no flashy watches, no talking about your Porsche. Standard dress code was white shirt, dark slacks.
Don’t dip your pen in the company ink well.
I had to look that guidance up, but I did literally do this on one occasion.
I worked in Dalkeith Palace (see Wikipedia) until 1983, when my company gave up the lease. My team office was actually Queen Victoria's Bedroom, so named after her stay there in 1842. There were extensive grounds (accommodating two farms), two rivers ran through it, and pheasants roamed the woods (as did I). There were a lot of carvings for fireplaces etc, by Grinling Gibbons, who did work in Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace, St Pauls Cathedral and so on. We had a snooker room, a badminton court in the ballroom, a croquet lawn, and some of us had allotments to grow vegetables and flowers.
At the time, I was system architect for a DAP (Distributed Array Processor). I found a pheasant's tail feather on a lunchtime walk, trimmed it into a pen nib, and wrote the outline specification for a 1024-processor with it (using the company's ink, naturally). I felt it kind of suited the environment.
I also discovered how dumb the Ministry of Defense could be. There was a delay getting my security clearance (one of the applications for the DAP was an airborne radar system). I was actually writing documents that I was not allowed to read afterwards, as the MoD required them to be stored in a filing cabinet with a massive lock across all the drawers. Luckily, this was not a serious problem: I could just pull the cabinet away from the wall and unscrew the back.
This is totally dependant on the culture.
In Thailand, for example, it is normal for everyone to share salaries, especially those who work at the same "level" , this includes salaries and bonuses.
But in the the US, for example, this is not normal and not acceptable.
So, you cannot ask this kind of question without specifying the region (country or state), the culture, etc. and expect a reasonable answer.
Ah I see. It is from Nepal.
Noted.
I’ve never worked in Nepal, so it would be pointless for me to speculate about its corporate etiquette. I did spend about a week in Tibet staying at a resort, but that experience has no relevance to Nepal’s working culture.
I have, however, worked in several (many, actually) countries — and I can tell you once again, corporate cultures vary dramatically from one country to another.
Also, the business / corporate culture changes dynamically depending on how well the business is doing, position in the company, and so many other factors - so since you are Nepalese (I assume) working in Nepal, I am sure you can figure this out for yourself 