"Bryan doesn't drive a 1M" (bryantakespictures)
12/02/2016 at 11:06 • Filed to: None
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"Bryan doesn't drive a 1M" (bryantakespictures)
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I could really use some more bosses. And if their requests and opinions could be more mutually exclusive, that would be great.
Hooray work!
iSureWilll
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
12/02/2016 at 11:19 |
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You’re going to quit?
No, I’m just gonna stop going.
At least its Friday! Woohoo!!!!!!
Jagvar
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
12/02/2016 at 11:23 |
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I’ll make sure you get a copy of that memo.
DynamicWeight
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
12/02/2016 at 11:32 |
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I finally just gave up. I have two bosses and a really opinionated coworker. Whenever there is an issue, I just call them all over and let them hash it out. Unless it’s mission critical I go with whatever they say because I just don’t care anymore. If I’m asked for an opinion, I give it, plus my best reason for it and then shut up and wait.
I read an apocryphal story once about Winston Churchill that helped me. Churchill had given a painting of a field to Henry Luce ( a Publisher) who had hung it on his office wall. Once, when Churchill was visiting Luce, Luce remarked “It is a good picture, but it needs something in the foreground; a sheep perhaps”. Churchill said nothing, but the next day Churchill’s secretary sent to Luce to have the painting sent back. Luce was now deeply worried that he had insulted Churchill. A few days later, the man received the painting in the mail with sheep added. The moral is: Just add the fucking sheep.
I now have a doodle of a sheep taped to my computer just to remind me to stop arguing and add the sheep.
vicali
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
12/02/2016 at 11:39 |
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Thomas Donohue
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
12/02/2016 at 11:41 |
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That reminds me, I have a meeting with the Bobs at 2:00.
wiffleballtony
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
12/02/2016 at 20:38 |
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Alternatively, you could have one boss on the opposite side of the country who never returns your calls.
Seat Safety Switch
> DynamicWeight
12/05/2016 at 14:44 |
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Did Churchill paint the painting?
VanillaHaze
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
12/05/2016 at 14:46 |
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One time the leader of my organization wanted something done that another organization was responsible for, so he loaned me “part time” to that other group to do a specific job. That organization thought that I was filling a whole role rather than doing a specific job and gave me a boss and a mentor for the role; the whole 9 yards. The leader of my org also gave me a boss in our org (not my normal boss) to make sure the specific job got done. So now I have 3 bosses for two jobs, all of whom disagree on what I should be doing. I spent most of my time in various meetings for all of them explaining what meeting had kept me from actually doing anything that day. 6 months of a complete lack of productivity later, I was put back to my normal job.
SVTyler Forgot His Kinja Password
> Seat Safety Switch
12/05/2016 at 14:55 |
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It’s possible he did, dude was a pretty talented oil painter to the point his works have been displayed in collections and sold at auction for like hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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DynamicWeight
> Seat Safety Switch
12/06/2016 at 11:10 |
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According to the story, yes. Rereading I can see I didn’t really specify that. Whoops!
TysMagic
> DynamicWeight
12/13/2016 at 12:17 |
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I’ve had this story stuck in my head since I read it. Thinking of doing the same with the sheep. Simple, easy
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DynamicWeight
> TysMagic
12/13/2016 at 13:01 |
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Cool! Really stuck with me too. It comes from a book called “The 48 Laws of Power”.
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TysMagic
> DynamicWeight
12/13/2016 at 13:08 |
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adding that to the reading list
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TysMagic
> DynamicWeight
12/13/2016 at 14:35 |
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Reading a business summary of the book for the big take aways. Touch overly aggressive in my opinion - possible power moves, but combined a lot of this is going to lead to you looking like a total douche
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DynamicWeight
> TysMagic
12/13/2016 at 15:56 |
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Oh yeah, it’s way too aggressive. But as a completely not aggressive person, it helped me better understand the bullshit other people are trying to pull, as well as teaching me a couple of important lessons about how to demand what I want. I didn’t finish it.
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TysMagic
> DynamicWeight
12/13/2016 at 16:36 |
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14 page summary was good enough for me. Some good take aways and yes, good way to look at what people are doing to “play” the game. Especially in a super corporate world (which is where I’m at).