The document outlines bad habits that HR professionals should avoid, including gossiping about sensitive employee information, unintentionally leaking private details, failing to clearly communicate important job details to employees, weak hiring practices, forgetting to follow up on requests, lacking employee recognition programs, having unclear policies and procedures, implementing too many rules, failing to address rule breakers or unproductive employees, playing referee in disputes, not trusting employees, not applying policies to their own team, delivering bad news via email, playing favorites, and excessive or inappropriate joking. Identifying and avoiding these detrimental behaviors can help HR professionals better serve their organizations.