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kayna
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posted December 02, 2014 02:08 AM |
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Edited by kayna at 02:10, 02 Dec 2014.
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How to get up the government ladder?
You wish to get up the ladder. Politician, police, etc. What do you do? Post what you would do for a job promotion!
Here's what I would do :
1 - Guess what my superiors like and do what they want me to do without asking first what it is they want or asking any payment after. Zero interaction actually.
2 - Prove that I can be trusted by witnessing an illegal action of them then not reporting it.
3 - Let my superiors witness an illegal action of mine after 2) has happened to strengthen the crime link between us.
4 - Say pro government opinions to everyone around me all the time, every time I can, no matter what.
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blizzardboy
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted December 02, 2014 06:26 AM |
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The suck-up strategy isn't as effective as people think, although being personable with your boss is. Most people find leadership and management to be hard work. If you're the kind of person that makes your superiors' stress go down when you're around them, then they're going to want to keep you around, and in increasingly higher levels of confidence. If you generally make their stress go up, then the exact opposite. Pretty straightforward reasoning, yeah?
The other important key, and this is a big one, is don't disagree with authority unless necessary. There are situations that demand you hold your ground, but honestly, they're fairly rare. Submission is an underrated skill, and I call submission a skill because that is what it is. The default stance of a person is to whine and/or argue, so submission is generally something that is learned rather than so much an inherited attribute, and it involves some amount of emotional and mental combat. A lot of blue collar workers go through life without ever learning this skill, which probably has a bigger effect on their long-term career then things such as academic performance or intelligence. If you're the guy that deems it worthy to create tension and disagreement over non-essentials, its doubtful you're going to get much in the way of ladder-climbing. Identify the hierarchy and respect the hierarchy.
Like, if Artu was my boss, and we watched the Stars Wars trailer together, and he was like "That crossguard light saber is idiotic!" I would just chuckle and take a swig of my beer. Or if I did disagree, I would make sure to state it in a jovial and benevolent way. Keep the social atmosphere light.
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"Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us."
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meroe
Supreme Hero
Basically Smurfette
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posted December 02, 2014 06:52 AM |
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Edited by meroe at 06:53, 02 Dec 2014.
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The answer is very simple = SLEAZE
The sleazier you are the more successful you will be in climbing that Governmental ladder.
All you need is the ability to get your hands on cash (preferably someone else's), spend it all on drug and alcohol fuelled parties, prostitutes, rent boys and all manner of transgender sexual encounters (involving fruit and domestic appliances). Also ensure you send young interns (of either sex) and school friends of your daughter, pictures of your junk on a regular basis.
Learn a few rabble-rousing sound bites and when cornered by other politicians and reporters firing complicated questions at you (regarding annoying budgets etc), just make sure you betray a few minions accidentally-on-purpose to temporarily diffuse the spotlight from yourself.
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Meroe is definetely out, sweet
as she sounds sometimes, she'd
definetely castrate you with a
rusted razror and forcefeed
your genitals to you in a
blink of an eye - Kipshasz
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted December 03, 2014 04:20 AM |
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Edited by artu at 10:18, 03 Dec 2014.
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blizzardboy said:
The other important key, and this is a big one, is don't disagree with authority unless necessary. There are situations that demand you hold your ground, but honestly, they're fairly rare. Submission is an underrated skill, and I call submission a skill because that is what it is. The default stance of a person is to whine and/or argue, so submission is generally something that is learned rather than so much an inherited attribute, and it involves some amount of emotional and mental combat. A lot of blue collar workers go through life without ever learning this skill, which probably has a bigger effect on their long-term career then things such as academic performance or intelligence. If you're the guy that deems it worthy to create tension and disagreement over non-essentials, its doubtful you're going to get much in the way of ladder-climbing. Identify the hierarchy and respect the hierarchy.
That's why intellectuals, artists, writers etc. make terrible employees. Both by mindset and tradition, they feel compelled to speak out their mind all the time. So, history is full of decapitated, tortured, exiled or fired ones because they did so. While I partly agree that one should not overromanticize this stance or practise it on a suicidal level, I also hold the Socratic tradition very dear to my heart. If what you do in life is ontologically related to speaking your mind, one of the first things you learn is not to auto-censor.
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Are you pretty? This is my occasion. - Ghost
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kayna
Supreme Hero
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posted December 03, 2014 05:34 PM |
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I forgot making money and keep it in the bank. Preferably from less time consuming sources as possible like real estate.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted December 04, 2014 04:02 AM |
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Btw, talking about the Socratic tradition reminded me of the Woody Allen version of My Apology
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