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Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by scobaba: 2:47pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
2. Groupthinkers.....yeah, my stint in union bank is a clear example. I ran for dear career. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by tundebj(m): 3:22pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
U try |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by Nobody: 3:34pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
woodcook: well it is kind of strange on the things we attached so much importance to. Now in every aspect of our lives we employed binary decisions: success/failure just to make us feel better. By the way who decides when one succeeds or not at work place on in their life. There is a certain kind of fatalism that appeals to me. Just like some classical thinkers (including Sophocles, Schopenhauer, and even King Solomon) pointed out, life is essentially meaningless if you really think about it. Notions of "success", "failure", "accomplishment", and "disappointment" are hopelessly empty at the end of the day. Then again, what can we do? Having had the misfortune of coming into this world (not that I am anti-natalist), we are almost obligated to make a way for ourselves, and to find some sort of standard by which we measure the essence of our (meaningless) sojourn on earth. I guess that is all there is to it. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by kolamilan(m): 3:36pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
number 3 and 6 are on point. Nice one there. |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by kid7soccer(m): 4:17pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
Nice one |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by ketoprofen(m): 4:23pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
I met some group thinkers when I entered one unit then. I had two options as the OP mentioned: to join them or beat them . I had to beat them, it paid off . |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by Daziz(m): 4:43pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
Tor after u don write dis long tinz na wetin u want make we tell u |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by delors(m): 9:36pm On Oct 18, 2013 |
So, who are the ones that succeed then? Group thinkers don't succeed? If you are 'confident' but 'empty-brained', how exactly will such a person succeed? Well, seeing that you are also gullible copying and pasting everything you see on other sites (because na Forbes abi?), I don't expect you to provide an intelligible answer to the question. |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by bizngr(f): 9:17am On Nov 01, 2013 |
It is a good read and simply written. Try reading it again or read this. it also sum it up nicely 10 Personality Types in every Office. Which Are You? 1. The noise maker This person is oblivious to how they are annoying everyone else around them. They make noise with their whistling, singing, incessant phone calls, chewing gums, music without head phones knuckle cracking and so on. 2. Workaholic: They tend to be aggressive, volatile, ambitious, independent and rigid. They are always the first to get to work and the last to leave. The workaholic eats, sleeps and breathes work and looks down on co-workers who actually have a life. 3. The Chatterbox: The entire office avoids this guy like the plague. As soon as they open their mouth, you know you’re going to be tortured in a 30minutes boring conversation. Whether anyone is listening, the Chatterbox just can’t keep their thoughts to themselves. 4. The Delegator: This person constantly delegates work to other people and never really get anything done on their own. 5. The back stabbers: This person pretends to be your friend just long enough to make it really hurt when they steal your ideas or badmouth you to the management. They creepily watch your every move, and turn your brilliant effort into theirs. 6. The passive aggressor: Though not complaining that someone else isn’t working as much, this person can’t resist mentioning how late he or she stayed at work last night or commenting on their insane amount of work load. 7. The gossip: This person lives for the next office scandal never caring to know if it’s true or not. They spend their day discussing other coworker’s unfortunate warning letter, salary differential, or who is dating who within the office. The Gossip spends their days listening in on conversations, dropping hints, and tarnishing reputations. The most dangerous part about the Gossip is that they are everywhere. No conversation is safe when the Gossip is within earshot 8. The overly ambitious intern: They seemed great at first but have now become very annoying that you can’t wait to see them leave. They add to your department’s problems. You can’t wait to see them leave. 9. The email overloader: This person overloads your inbox with unimportant messages. The email overloader does not consider how necessary the message is before cc -ing everyone in the office. You dread checking your emails knowing that you have to go true the routine of relieving your inbox of unimportant messages. Majority coming from the email overloader in the office. 10. The meeting scheduler: This guy would like nothing more than having a meeting all day, every day, 365 days a year. It’s truly his favorite activity. www.bizngr.com otijah: Too much vocab, very hard to digest |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by krestup: 10:06am On Nov 01, 2013 |
They don't even succeed in anything they do in life because for you to become successful, you need to try new things, think outside the box, take risk, focus etc |
Re: Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work by emmygr8(m): 5:09pm On Sep 24, 2014 |
There are an endless amount of characters in the workplace. There’s the lady you find in the break room, always on a diet and commenting on your weight (God help you if you are proportionate, she will eat you alive). The guy who shows off way too many baby pictures of his not-that-cute-kid. The girl who stays in her office with the door shut, even during fire drills. And the dreaded over-talker who never gets the hint (which might explain why that one girl stays in her office). We all play roles in our workplaces, many of which are unique to only our office. But there’s a standard cast of characters as well. You can find varieties of them anywhere you go, but they all share the same skill sets. They are the ones who will succeed and the ones who will fail. In lieu of filling you with fluffy “this is what a successful person looks like” talk, I thought I’d take the opposite route. The following is a list of people who stand out for all the wrong reasons. Fair warning: If you don’t know who this person is at your office, it might be you. 1. The Gullible One. If I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that you should never believe everything a company says. Don’t believe them when they say they don’t expect layoffs (the mere mention of that word suggests they’re on the way). Don’t believe that they’ve offered you the highest salary they can. Don’t believe them when they say they can’t negotiate your raise. And definitely don’t believe them when they say “this year has been really bad, but next year you’re going to get hooked up on that promotion you want!” When a boss, HR rep or recruiter (or anyone playing a role in your career and financial success) states something that makes you tilt your head to the side and think “huh… that seems sketch,” don’t just accept it. As I’ve said before, the car dealer will act like he can’t budge on a number. But if you stand up and start walking to the door he’ll automatically find a discount for you. Companies are in it for the bottom line even when they’re negotiating things with their employees. They want to encourage you to stick around while also finding a way to save money. And it saves them money to give you a smaller raise, to skip a round of promotions, to make you work through Christmas. Don’t fall for it. 2. The Groupthinker. Groupthink is a psychological problem that runs rampant in workplaces. Even more if you’ve got a large population of “longtermers” in a corporation. Groupthink is why technology isn’t updated, why policies are outdated, why there’s no new blood (or ideas) on a team, why you hear the sentence “you can’t do that, that’s not how we’ve always done it!” It’s easy to spot these people, especially if you’re new to a company. They sit in clumps together and they make bizarre statements in meetings, they do the same things every day and they complain when their life is disrupted by something (or someone) new. If you fight against a mass of groupthinkers, you run a high risk of failure, persecution, derailment and tons of frustration. But if you engage and join them, you will become silly and possibly unmarketable for your next career jump. Take your pick. 3. The Fearful One. People do ridiculous things when they’re scared. Just ask anyone who’s died in a horror movie (I mean, who drops the phone and runs up the stairs?!). Fearful people will cause you serious amounts of trouble at work. If they’re scared of getting fired, they will find a way to point a finger at you. If their project is failing, they will suggest your role was to blame. Drowning people will grab whatever they can to keep their head above water. Don’t stand too close and become that object. And don’t become the drowning person. If you ever feel worried about something at work, you sense something bad coming your way or you screw up big time, avoid the fear by taking some action. Talk to someone, your boss, your mentor or a peer to get information that will quell your fears. Or fess up and find out immediately what repercussions are headed your way for the screw- up so you’re not worried about the unknowns. Do whatever you need to do in order to avoid becoming the fearful one. 4. Apathetic Guy. The other day, a friend of mine posted a message on Facebook FB +3.3% stating her frustration that people keep calling her upcoming maternity leave a “vacation.” She mentioned a litany of things that have to be done while you’re on maternity leave (none of it sounded remotely vacation’ish). She referenced this because she felt judged and persecuted for her decision to take the time off. Consider now the single person. If you haven’t been in this demo for awhile, you might not be aware of this, but single people are also victims of workplace apathy. I’ve actually heard the sentence, “You can stay late tonight to finish this, right? I gotta get out of here and it’s not like you’re going home to a family.” Everyone is dealing with something. Everyone feels judged and misunderstood every once in awhile. And everyone feels the sting from these moments. Show some compassion even when you’re having trouble putting yourself in their shoes. Don’t be the apathetic coworker. The grass isn’t always greener, even though it may appear so. 5. The Sore Loser. Anytime you’re successful or experience something great in life or your career, I guarantee you that someone somewhere will doubt that you earned it the good ‘ol hard- working way. That someone somewhere is the sore loser. A sore loser will think you got that deal because you’ve got an important last name. Or that you were hired because your Mom sits in the corner office. Or that you simply got lucky (literally and figuratively). You can’t stop a sore loser from thinking what they want and you can’t convince them out of their opinion. The only way to battle a sore loser is to make sure they’re not right (it might surprise some of you ladies that yes, business can indeed be conducted outside the bedroom!). Update: It’s been called to my attention by several female readers that the comment above was offensive and diminishes the hard- earned success of females in the workplace. I realize now it was a poor example and misrepresented the very reason I have this column. It wasn’t my goal to suggest that women are perpetuating a Mad Men-era stereotype and that men are absolved of their roles in these scenarios. While it exists, this in fact is NOT a common problem in the workplace. I mentioned it as merely a side note to emphasize the importance in making sure “Sore Losers” are not making accurate accusations by carrying yourself properly in the workplace. Use your connections and your network to get ahead, but do your own dang work. Show results. Then the sore losers will disappear one by one. 6. Malicious Gossiper. There’s harmless gossip and then there’s malicious gossip. Harmless gossip is…harmless. But you must avoid the malicious gossiper completely. In fact, put large amounts of space between you and this person. Assume that since they’re willing to share really bad information with you, they’re sharing it with other people. They’re kind of like the flu. If you run across a malicious gossiper and they start talking, whatever you do, don’t agree with them. Because the next thing you know, your sentence of “Oh, I agree with you – I bet she totally slept with that guy to get that job” will be shortened to “So and so just told me that so and so slept with so and so!” And voila, you’re screwed. 7. The Apologizer. I recently attended an event where several startups were invited to pitch. One woman stood up to sell her idea to a room undoubtedly full of millions, a big opportunity for a small company. She looked sharp and ready. But then she opened with, “Don’t worry, this isn’t a crappy website that does blah…” Well shoot. For the remainder of her presentation, I assumed her website was crappy. The Apologizer will discredit themselves as soon as they open their mouth. They will start a presentation with qualifying statements like the one above or they will ask for a raise by saying, “I know we don’t have a lot of money, but…” They lose these deals because they show a massive lack of confidence in the statement, regardless of topic. You don’t necessarily have to avoid this person. Just don’t be this person. The company pays you a salary because they think you’re worth it. You have every right to be in the room and to be having that conversation right then. Why act like you don’t belong there? Repeat the following statement as many times as you need to before you have an important conversation or make a presentation: Be confident, not cocky. Source: you are are certainly not a business man . |
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