Speaking of idiots.. at least we're exporting one.
I'm 26 years old now. Have been for a month or so now. And still, I've only just now figured out this basic fact of life, and it's one I have a feeling might aid me greatly for the next 26 years:
Some people just don't get it.
It's a message board, one of millions on the internet. On it, there's a debate between some similarly-employed people, yours truly being one of them. What's the debate about? Who ever really knows on message boards? But someone I've found generally disagreeable at best and an A-list jacka$$ at worst over the past three years decides to post on this topic. One of his statements go as follows: "If we were talking about how good or bad a guy I am, I wouldn't bother, but since people are saying bad things about my company, I feel I need to respond."
Really convenient how the two suddenly don't have anything to do with each other, at least for this guy.
I'm not incredibly self-aware, and I'm not even that smart. But even I know this much: how "good" or "bad" a guy you are when representing your company has everything to do with what people say about your company. In turn, what people say about your company has everything to do with the public opinion of your company. That's the way it is, and there's nothing you can do about it.
When you call people at extremely inappropriate times to yell at them for something, spend a few moments treating them like your poolboy then hang up on them, they're going to think you're a jackass. Since you are the only link they have to your company, they're going to think your company is full of jackasses.
When, more than two years later, you call people to yell at them about something else, which this time you've taken way out of proportion and have no idea about, then call them fifth-grade names before again hanging up the phone, they're going to think you're still a jackass. And your company? Well, they've dealt with you at least 300 times a year over the past three years, and they've still employed you. Most people can tell from just these two incidents that you're an unprofessional, immature jackass who can't control himself much less any number of employees.
In between, you hear former employees of this company and this person in specific, say plenty of bad things about working under you, and that it was all they could do not to read you the riot act when they worked under you.. you get the point.
You can't disconnect the way you act on behalf of your company and the way people think of your company. If you're completely unprofessional, people are going to draw conclusions about the people who still choose to keep you employed. You can't have one without the other.
People just don't get it. Thank God at least one of them is leaving the state. I'm still stranded in Idaho, but at least the cumulative IQ will raise a couple points.
Some people just don't get it.
It's a message board, one of millions on the internet. On it, there's a debate between some similarly-employed people, yours truly being one of them. What's the debate about? Who ever really knows on message boards? But someone I've found generally disagreeable at best and an A-list jacka$$ at worst over the past three years decides to post on this topic. One of his statements go as follows: "If we were talking about how good or bad a guy I am, I wouldn't bother, but since people are saying bad things about my company, I feel I need to respond."
Really convenient how the two suddenly don't have anything to do with each other, at least for this guy.
I'm not incredibly self-aware, and I'm not even that smart. But even I know this much: how "good" or "bad" a guy you are when representing your company has everything to do with what people say about your company. In turn, what people say about your company has everything to do with the public opinion of your company. That's the way it is, and there's nothing you can do about it.
When you call people at extremely inappropriate times to yell at them for something, spend a few moments treating them like your poolboy then hang up on them, they're going to think you're a jackass. Since you are the only link they have to your company, they're going to think your company is full of jackasses.
When, more than two years later, you call people to yell at them about something else, which this time you've taken way out of proportion and have no idea about, then call them fifth-grade names before again hanging up the phone, they're going to think you're still a jackass. And your company? Well, they've dealt with you at least 300 times a year over the past three years, and they've still employed you. Most people can tell from just these two incidents that you're an unprofessional, immature jackass who can't control himself much less any number of employees.
In between, you hear former employees of this company and this person in specific, say plenty of bad things about working under you, and that it was all they could do not to read you the riot act when they worked under you.. you get the point.
You can't disconnect the way you act on behalf of your company and the way people think of your company. If you're completely unprofessional, people are going to draw conclusions about the people who still choose to keep you employed. You can't have one without the other.
People just don't get it. Thank God at least one of them is leaving the state. I'm still stranded in Idaho, but at least the cumulative IQ will raise a couple points.
posted by Mitch at 4:34 PM
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