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      11-26-2018, 11:45 AM   #23
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Could not agree more! I've lost jobs and been turned down for jobs due to intimidating people. I deal with it in my current job as well. During conversations with my current boss, I'm always asking where we are at with the status of projects and how far along his maintenance employees are with completion so I know how to plan my next steps. It's as if I'm his boss and he just signs my time sheet. Due to this, I get left in the dark a lot just so he can keep some level of relevance in his position. In this day and age mediocrity is celebrated and rewarded and those who excel walk around with a bulls-eye on their back.

So I'm not thread-jacking, although I think it's already too late, Facebook is terrible.
Agreed, it's insane. Dumb leaders want to surround themselves with dumber people so they feel smart. I'm the opposite, I'd rather have the smartest and hardest working people on my team so we can accomplish what we need to. If you are the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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If you are are smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
I like that.

When I was a sales manager, my employees would get extremely upset when they realized they all had degrees and I did not. My job wasn't make the sales, but to train those who could. I explained to them often, my only job was to set them up for success and coach them in areas that were needed; if they were successful, I was successful.
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I like that.

When I was a sales manager, my employees would get extremely upset when they realized they all had degrees and I did not. My job wasn't make the sales, but to train those who could. I explained to them often, my only job was to set them up for success and coach them in areas that were needed; if they were successful, I was successful.
I like how I made a typo in that statement. Clearly I am not the smartest person in this room.
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I like how I made a typo in that statement. Clearly I am not the smartest person in this room.
Nonsense. Grammatical errors in typing often come from the fingers not being able to keep up with the thought going into them. I do it all the time. The vast majority of my posts on here will have an edit notation under them for this very reason.....case in point this very post now. Making an error and catching it yourself is far better than to not even realize there was an error. If it makes you feel better I didn't notice it either.
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The more alarming thing is that it's 2018 and you still have a Facebook account. If the controversies of recent years haven't gotten you to jump ship, surely this should. Only social media I use are forums like this.
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Giving them your photo is like giving your DNA to one of those ancestry sites. Probably not a good idea.
A family member gifted me a 23andMe DNA test for Christmas last year. I was in the same boat as you, can't remember what my reasoning was but I just bit the bullet and did it. Results were pretty much what I expected. 99.99% Western European...

It is alarming though when you see headlines of how they located certain criminals by utilizing the DNA gathered from private organizations...
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I quit FB when I realized that my more narcissistic friends/family were using it as a dismissive surrogate for real interactions.

The epiphany came when a friend (in her early 70s) and her husband came to visit from out of town; I hardly saw her during their three days here, because she stayed embedded in FB from early morning 'til bedtime... even during our meals.
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