Don't Be A Coward

I love meeting people who think brown-nosing to a half-ass title gives them authority. When I say love here, I mean a complex and strong dislike.

"Professionals" who believe adhering to all higher power will move up up the totem pole, but will fall down it rapidly. Once you get past the people above you, then you're dependent on the people that keep you there. The people who get you to a good position are rarely the people who keep you there. The people who keep you there are often the people that you stepped on to get where you're at. Your customers. Your clientele.

Brown-nosing doesn't make you likable or sociable. You're supposed to make the customer happy, but brown-nosing doesn't making customers happy. Why? Brown-nosing occurs with supervisors and bosses. If you will make your customers unhappy by making your supervisor happy because your nose in deep in boss-poop...you're doing something wrong. Brown-nosing is negative. Respect is positive. You can respect your superiors without offending anyone, especially your customers.

These types of people often think that because they gobble up everything their boss says, then everyone around and below them should as well. These types of people think that because they're too much of a coward to find a better way, to go around someone else's title, to be intelligent and efficient and think ahead...that everyone else is too. Don't be a coward. Be able to see peoples' bluff when their only reason for saying no to you is because their supervisor told them to. There's a bigger issue. The person you're dealing thinks that your problem makes them a problem to your supervisor. This isn't the case, really, it's this coward who is the aggravating your problem instead of alleviating it.

Always know that there is another way. When you think something is going wrong or that you're being cheated, either go above cowards or around them. Find another way. Find someone else that can help you. Don't waste you're time on these people after you've tried different options once. There is always another way. Cowards are only caution signs, not red lights. Get ready to rumble.