Look around your own office and see the love and care lavished on these rectangle-faced machines with their aggressive manners and their secret desire to steal your job.

BBC: Computers upset the workplace

As these devices pop up everywhere, there has been a recent spate of articles about smart-phone "manners" -- as if using your phone when your boss, or your mother, is talking to you is just a matter of poor training on their part.

WSJ: Addicts of the Information Age

Etiquette and manners still matter at work, but it's not as cut and dry as not licking your knife while enjoying a steak dinner.

CNN: Rate your office etiquette