Surrounded by Thomas Erikson
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If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, you are the asshole.
Unless you work with businesspeople. Then both parts are true.
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(or how to understand those who cannot be understood)
The subtitle really highlights his superior understanding.
I think I get it. Listen. There are four types of people: Red person, yellow person, green person and blue person. And they're all narcissistic psychopath idiots. Easy.
Please do not be racist.
They prefer the term "Blue Man Group"
*person
*sophont
Person is discrimination against non human beings, such as AI.
these are the same joke but worse. never did I think I'd see the day this would happen in a comment thread
the four types of human behaviour
There are only four?! Gosh. That makes my job sooo much easier. If I only had known before.
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Surrounded by fat controllers.
They are called The Duke controllers
I wish they made the elite v2 in Duke proportions too. Would fit my catcher's mitt hands better.
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Only Thomas, master of all four elements could bring balance to the world.
His name is thomas fyi.
Isn't that exactly what these books are calling out? That if you feel surrounded by idiots, it's you who need to work on empathy and communication skills?
You're the only person here who's read them.
I read a paragraph of a summary of one of them at some point, can't really speak for the series as a whole :)
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Reminder: If someone constantly bitches about his colleagues, calles them idiots and acts like he is the only one who does everything right all the time. Then this person is the problem and is projecting harder than a drive-in cinema.
This is true 100% of the time.
It's the "I'm always right" part that guarantees it
I work with a bunch of fucking idiots who regularly fuck stuff up. But I'm also a fucking idiot constantly fucking Up so I belong
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I think this is generally true...
... except for driving. I'm the only decent driver out there.
I recently had a meeting with my supervisor, and he was complaining about how a previous meeting ran over time and repeatedly complaining about how some former team members who moved to a different team caused the meeting to run over time because they wouldn't just agree to do what he asked, but kept arguing with him about why it isn't a good idea.
I had to interrupt him to point out that the meeting we were in, in which he was complaining about the previous meeting running over time because of the previous team members, had just run over time, and they weren't in the meeting this time.
I don't think he liked what I said, but he ended the meeting, and that's what I wanted to happen.
He did my annual review three days later and complained that I don't work well with others, and specifically indicated that I don't work well with him.
He's the only supervisor who has ever complained about me in the 36 years I've been working.
We've had two people retire last year directly because of him. There is another person who refuses to have a meeting with him unless it is recorded.
Sounds like your company hired one of my previous managers.
We routed around him until the company eventually relieved themselves of the dead weight.
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