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What can I do as a jerk?

Rakehellion

Rakehellion

Lifer
I'm a pretty big asshole. Or so I'm told. I don't often see it, or care, but I do sometimes hear "Maybe I should talk to that person because my tone is a little softer" or "My friend just asked what's wrong with you."

I'm pretty personable in the interest of fairness and I do stand up for those in need, but "rough around the edges" as they say.

I'm not asking how to be nicer to people, because I know that's a long shot, but how can I add this to my résumé as a strength? I know I'd be good at firing people when it came down to it, or implementing new and radical ideas.

Help me out, businesspeople.
 
Even if you didn't have your location under your user name, I would've been able to easy tell where you are located.

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Why bother trying to spin that as a strength? Start your own business where it actually WOULD be a strength.
 
Rakehellion said:
It is a strength, innately. It's why men make more than women. It's why the rich are perceived to be uncaring.
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Haha... You might want to talk to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Being calm, confident, articulate, and affable are strengths. Being an asshole is just being an asshole.
 
Its from living in NYC and Shlepping up and down the east side. I used to be an asshole when I had to deal with Joan Doernemann and those crazies.


If life has cast you in a role as a character tenor or a buffo roll with it. We cant all be calaf or otello
 
Well, from your post it doesn't look like you are wanting to learn to be nicer, just learn not to be a dick all the time. If that is the case, then I think the only thing you need to learn is when to keep the mouth shut.
 
i didn't spend my twenties partying and spending my parents money in school and grad school to be the nice guy

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PricklyPete said:
Haha... You might want to talk to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Being calm, confident, articulate, and affable are strengths. Being an asshole is just being an asshole.
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Being an asshole actually does work for some people though, look at UFC's president Dana White. He's an asshole on another level, if you disrespect him on Twitter he'll go on and personally tear you an asshole. This is the CEO of a multi billion dollar company we're talking about here.
 
If you're a jerk, you have 91% of the qualities to be a supervisor.

The other 5% is bouncing work off of yourself and on to others, and 4% is clipboard carrying skills. If you can master those, you are 110% employable.
 
PricklyPete said:
Haha... You might want to talk to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Being calm, confident, articulate, and affable are strengths. Being an asshole is just being an asshole.
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I guess you haven't heard of any Microsoft antitrust news lately. And Buffett? Well, just fuck him.
 
Fritzo said:
If you're a jerk, you have 91% of the qualities to be a supervisor.

The other 5% is bouncing work off of yourself and on to others, and 4% is clipboard carrying skills. If you can master those, you are 110% employable.
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Sounds like someone's butthurt about their dead-end job. Nice one there, Dilbert.
 
You have to try. I am/was a complete asshole. You know that one guy out of all your friends? I was him. When I got married I decided enough was enough.

You need to stop and think before everything you do. Make the decision to be the nice, to take the fall for something instead of going off on someone (depending on the situation), never be to mean or proud to look the other way, and never be afraid to apologize (even if you think you shouldn't).

That will help you on your path to niceness. Just know, it never gets any easier cause your still an asshole at heart.
 
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