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Subject:RE: Drafts Back in Time From:"Foster, Willow" <WFoster -at- friedmancorp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 May 2003 14:10:18 -0500
kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com wrote:
~> I'm curious. Have those of you who proclaim yourself
~> bitchy (or all business, or take no prisoners, or any other
~> not-worried-about-being-liked approach) found it to be the
~> most effective way to get results? Have you also tried
~> the nice/happy/chatty approach? This question applies to
~> both genders.
~>
Cindy Knight wrote an interesting post earlier about the different
personalities in her office and included this:
~> If I were to flirt
~> with a co-worker to try to get something, they'd know it was
~> manipulation because that's not me. (And laugh me out of
~> the building! :) Likewise, if I got hard and determined,
~> they'd wonder what alien had taken over my body.
I feel the same way. I am not by nature a very outgoing person. The
nice/happy/chatty approach wouldn't work for me because it would be fake.
I'm not walking around the building snarling at anyone who dares glance my
way, but I'm not buddy buddy with everyone either. I think my co-workers
respect that I just do my job and pester them as infrequently as possible.
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