As we close out the year, we thought it would be a great time to remind you of some essential professional gaffes to leave behind in the year that was.

1. Don’t (always) put it in writing: Sure it’s important to keep notes and records, but sometimes there are things that are so highly personal and potentially professionally damning that you might be best off committing it all to memory instead. “Don’t put
anything in writing — email, text, slack, etc, that you wouldn’t want the rest of the world to see,” offers financial writer Debbie Carlson who adds “An oldie, but a goodie, that people always…