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B2Spirits:
Check the references below.

Well, I'm not an English student, but I just thought "outshone" suited this context more. Who England epp after all.


You could be right

amanikondo:
You are arrogant. You will be changing jobs like they change diapers. If you are good as you claimed, you should have been your own boss.

Don't mind the self-professed orator. Poverty is lurking around him, he doesn't know it. Anyone advising him to go start up his business is actually pushing him to doom and shame. He doesn't have the capacity to stand alone! I rephrase, he doesn't have the stamina to boss an organization. He is at best an appendage! For him to have come online with so long a prose which only eulogizes himself and demonizes everyone he has worked with, proves that he is a heady workplace rebel. Until he heals himself of his arrogance, he'll remain a workplace vagabond.

gensteejay:
"Outshined" is also correct and can be used in place of "outshone".
From Merriam Webster's: Definition of outshine outshone - \ˌau̇t-ˈshōn, especially British -ˈshän\ or outshined; outshining transitive verb
a : to shine brighter than
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outshine

True, I just confirmed.

Not only this but also not a good leader as he is too smart and proud to encourage others. Just going to be in his perfect world by himself. How interesting.









quote author=Ayinke93 post=54421589]Someone like you won't do well working under people.. I'll advice u look inwards and think of how u can be your own boss.[/quote]

My take? Get that chip off your shoulders or you'll be on your way to a third job.

B2Spirits listen to Billyonaire.

[quote author=Dyt post=54430945][/quote] Leave the kid alone. His sense might finally come when he starts seeing white beards all over his fresh face.

MathsChic:
I think you are under an illusion of grandeur. You have a feeling you are smart. But indeed you may not be as smart as you think. It's the wrongest thing to think a boss who remarked, even if in passing, about your superior presentation skills, would now be thinking of bringing you down, when all he needs to "bring you down" is to merely fire you. And hire someone else.

If he found work for you between 10am and 4pm, it could be for a host of other reasons, and for nothing related to your paranoia. If he thought the DSTV needed to be shut down, there could be a thousand other reasons for it and not for the hunt you think.

You need to watch it. Sooner those feelings you harbour will creep out and in no time will become perceptible to your boss. You should know that once that happens, insubordination is the interpretation. I'll suggest you simply do your thing. Do your job and don't entertain those feelings of greatness, which, frankly, ain't even great anyways. Concentrate on honing your skills and not on who's after your phantom glory.

In other words, stay focused, oga.

chai....never been this impressed with a comment coming from a girl on nairaland. please hope you are really a girl ooo because i will like to know you pass nairaland

dasauce:
I notice Billyonaire was actually speaking to my ego!

Yeah, ego, that false sense of self and self importance is a common denominator. It reduces us to mere mortals. The fall of man. Ego camoflages itself as pride almost always, and pride is the begining of a fall. Losing his job, might be his fall, and a good lesson. Good lesson because it will teach him a lesson on humility. Nature doesnt care how many times you fall, you must learn ypur lesson or die on account of your ignorance, which you must learn in the next life time.

myk2mic:
Won't mind being ur student , I promise not to out shine you.lol but seriously though ,would u take me under ur wings

sure!.... The sky is wide enough to accomodate two eagles.

B2Spirits:
What you should know is that special skills can't be hidden by individuals that possess them. It's like managers getting pissed off with celebrated dribblers with less goals.

I worked as a manager in a company owned by a professor of literature. Most of the meetings took place on WhatsApp platform where contributors are experts in the field, except the owner.

I have found out that rich people always want you to massage their ego even if they are wrong, and prefer losing, at times, to following a commoner's advice. I had never wanted to outshine them, but whenever I perceived that the result of not heeding my advice would be fatal, I would devise linguistic crafts that could only deliver the message to the prof. despite being read by all. The others would hail my language use sophistication, without them knowing that the prof. was smarting. He would have no other choice than submitting to me.

Along the line, he devised ways of making me look stupid, and I quitted when the ovation was loudest.

Now I've secured a new job in an hospital. My job description is purely about presentations--assisting the owner, who has been taking up this role before my arrival. It also requires me to be in the hospital everyday. Here, I normally don't have much to do between 10am and 4pm. Since that I would be busy at night and in the morning, I use that period to shop and and get important stuff done--I would still obtain permission before embarking on these. This job should have more men on shifts, but they don't want to hire more persons.

Being a good orator, my employer felt threatened and stylishly mentioned it in one of his presentations.

In his words, "Don't be surprised at our new man's ability to compete with Mark Twain as an orator. We all have special skills, and you are well aware of mine as not being oratory."

That marked the beginning of dramas.

I have an apartment in the hospital. The TV here has DSTV subscription paid for monthly, and linked with hospital wards.

Two weeks after my arrival, the owner disabled it. His reason is that he doesn't want patients to be watching ungodly channels. Know that Tv in the wards must be switched off by 8pm. But I watch it in my apartment anytime I want. I see this as a calculated attempt to get at me.

It's evident that this man wants me to live as a slave from other policies he rolled out later, and added them to my job descriptions. For instance, he found something meaningless for me to be doing by 10am to 4pm in a bid to pin me to the office at all cost, knowing full well that I use that time preparing my presentations.

Now I'm planning to quit, but my people are saying I intentionally want to throw away an opportunity. What's your take?

Oboy your grammar is poor.

Who you outshine?

Sharrap!

iamGraced:
True talk, i had someone tell me the same thing about her worker yesterday, l8r we youths would feel noone is willing to show us the ropes forgetting that Loyalty, humility & respect is the rule of the game...

I have enjoyed reading through comments & would employ some new tips found to be a "better" person

you are right though

B2Spirits:
What you should know is that special skills can't be hidden by individuals that possess them. It's like managers getting pissed off with celebrated dribblers with less goals.

I worked as a manager in a company owned by a professor of literature. Most of the meetings took place on WhatsApp platform where contributors are experts in the field, except the owner.
I have found out that rich people always want you to massage their ego even if they are wrong, and prefer losing, at times, to following a commoner's advice. I had never wanted to outshine them, but whenever I perceived that the result of not heeding my advice would be fatal, I would devise linguistic crafts that could only deliver the message to the prof. despite being read by all. The others would hail my language use sophistication, without them knowing that the prof. was smarting. He would have no other choice than submitting to me.

Along the line, he devised ways of making me look stupid, and I quitted when the ovation was loudest.

Now I've secured a new job in an hospital. My job description is purely about presentations--assisting the owner, who has been taking up this role before my arrival. It also requires me to be in the hospital everyday. Here, I normally don't have much to do between 10am and 4pm. Since that I would be busy at night and in the morning, I use that period to shop and and get important stuff done--I would still obtain permission before embarking on these. This job should have more men on shifts, but they don't want to hire more persons.

Being a good orator, my employer felt threatened and stylishly mentioned it in one of his presentations.

In his words, "Don't be surprised at our new man's ability to compete with Mark Twain as an orator. We all have special skills, and you are well aware of mine as not being oratory."

That marked the beginning of dramas.

I have an apartment in the hospital. The TV here has DSTV subscription paid for monthly, and linked with hospital wards.

Two weeks after my arrival, the owner disabled it. His reason is that he doesn't want patients to be watching ungodly channels. Know that Tv in the wards must be switched off by 8pm. But I watch it in my apartment anytime I want. I see this as a calculated attempt to get at me.

It's evident that this man wants me to live as a slave from other policies he rolled out later, and added them to my job descriptions. For instance, he found something meaningless for me to be doing by 10am to 4pm in a bid to pin me to the office at all cost, knowing full well that I use that time preparing my presentations.

Now I'm planning to quit, but my people are saying I intentionally want to throw away an opportunity. What's your take?

First Law Of Power....NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER.You Seem To Constantly Violate This Law!

if thats all your boss did for you ti make duch a cocludion then i think youre suffering from ego and paranoia...youre lucky he even recognises your oratory skills..better keep calm and never outshine your master as advised earlier....from xperience most outspoken guys are really not smart..they are only good for public relations

Originalsly:
Bro... you really need go check yourself. You are here trying to present your case and are instead putting your foot in your mouth. Didn't you say you have pretty much nothing to do between 10 am and 4 pm?... so you shop online?...and do other stuff? No sane employer would have you do nothing on his time....he will find something... ..... anything for you to do. That's what he did and you are highly offended.... not sure if it's because you think it's degrading.... beneath your self elevated status to do the lowly task he set out for you...or if you are just paranoid. You cannot keep filling your mouth with pride ..... at some point you'll have to either swallow or choke. You are at that point..... if you can't swallow and get with the programme.... you will choke.... just like the previous job... and choke again should you find another. My advice... be your own boss... aren't you that good again?

I work from 4pm to 10pm, then from 6:30am to 10am. I mean buying things in town when I said shopping. Won't I buy things in the market again cos of job?

Billyonaire:
Yeah, ego, that false sense of self and self importance is a common denominator. It reduces us to mere mortals. The fall of man. Ego camoflages itself as pride almost always, and pride is the begining of a fall. Losing his job, might be his fall, and a good lesson. Good lesson because it will teach him a lesson on humility. Nature doesnt care how many times you fall, you must learn ypur lesson or die on account of your ignorance, which you must learn in the next life time.

sir with due respect, is there such thing as "the next life time?"; because I wish I could go back in time and re-do a number of things differently from the way I did them way back. By the way I read your previous comments on this thread and I must say, I found them all wisdom packed.

DLondonboiy:
This nigga typed exactly what I wanted to type..Jesus!

Oga op, you would end up a very poor man if you don't retrace your steps..
Buy the book 48laws of power..and read just the first law..you won't regret it!

Lol.

"When we go to war, we do not carry any books"

Yteflon:
weyrey ni bobo yi oh ... you're even displaying it here. i wish you well. and bro to be honest, i don't see you as a smart person.

Nibo niwo ti jawa ti o lokun lorun? Afofungbemu!

Man get it into your head that you're being paid to tolerate those nonsense, there is no well paid job that does not have these types of nonsense. If I tell you my own you will laugh

Mille:
The first law of Power:

NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power. ( Excerpts from the book, "48 Laws of Power" ).



After your two examples, I must say you need this most. When it comes to power, outshining the masters is the worst mistake of all

a million kisses for you.

Abi. Oooooo, he sounds like a proud person

R3B3L:
All I see is a buffed up academic steroid user who is seriously Jimmying his ego. Those who have said talents hardly need to blow their whistles.

mastermaestro:
Don't mind the self-professed orator. Poverty is lurking around him, he doesn't know it. Anyone advising him to go start up his business is actually pushing him to doom and shame. He doesn't have the capacity to stand alone! I rephrase, he doesn't have the stamina to boss an organization. He is at best an appendage! For him to have come online with so long a prose which only eulogizes himself and demonizes everyone he has worked with, proves that he is a heady workplace rebel. Until he heals himself of his arrogance, he'll remain a workplace vagabond.

With this vigour, you will need the nearest transformer to hug.

Azil:
Lol.
"When we go to war, we do not carry any books"

Lol. .but you carry it in your brain

wapadunk:
You would end up one day moving from one place to another without consistency and achievements because of your ego. Mr Orator.

Better Still start your own business, cause you won't Last long under someone. You want to be noticed, seen and shining. So, be your own BOSS.

True talk bro!

See shelling in the 4th paragraph " and I quitted" what da fvck!?

Zaronxpanol:
Note only Osinbanjo is permitted to outshine his boss..

Even Osinbajo is not allowed to break the first law of power. The laws of power are universal and will bend for no man. Although there is a reversal for every law that one can apply. Osinbajo is too ''churchy'' for that. The reversal of the first law of power says things like 'if your boss if weak, hasten his downfall, outshine him in key moments and let nature take its course' and things like that(google it). Osinbajo does not have it in him. So he's better off maintaining the status quo.

MathsChic:
I think you are under an illusion of grandeur. You have a feeling you are smart. But indeed you may not be as smart as you think. It's the wrongest thing to think a boss who remarked, even if in passing, about your superior presentation skills, would now be thinking of bringing you down, when all he needs to "bring you down" is to merely fire you. And hire someone else.

If he found work for you between 10am and 4pm, it could be for a host of other reasons, and for nothing related to your paranoia. If he thought the DSTV needed to be shut down, there could be a thousand other reasons for it and not for the hunt you think.

You need to watch it. Sooner those feelings you harbour will creep out and in no time will become perceptible to your boss. You should know that once that happens, insubordination is the interpretation. I'll suggest you simply do your thing. Do your job and don't entertain those feelings of greatness, which, frankly, ain't even great anyways. Concentrate on honing your skills and not on who's after your phantom glory.

In other words, stay focused, oga.

true true u go school well well.... U be lawyer

@OP, read up on emotional intelligence.

understand that you will advance by making your boss look good, not by looking better than your boss.

you should also understand that your boss is your boss because he has met your employers requirements. you are gifted within a particular skillset. this does not grant you all around superiority. the fact that your boss is weak on presentation does not make you superior to him. you for instance, are clearly weak on people skills, which are ultimately far more important in taking you far.


understand that you clearly have a problem. you are running to the internet looking for strangers to reinforce your misguided ego, probably because you cannot find anyone within your circle who subscribes to 'outshining' their superiors. it is a recipe for disaster.

you seem to be bent on letting your ego make you enemies instead of friends. all it will take for your boss to mess you up is put you in charge of a job you do not have the skill-set to handle. your ego would have made you too many enemies to get support from your colleagues

Ibime:
Oboy your grammar is poor.

Who you outshine?

Sharrap!

If you want to make this a grammar contest, then post links to your published novels, and I will post mine.

ayoolanr:
See shelling in the 4th paragraph " and I quitted" what da fvck!?

Google is a tool created for your ilk. Use it, and come back here, son.

Ayinke93:
Someone like you won't do well working under people.. I'll advice u look inwards and think of how u can be your own boss.

He can't achieve anything with this his arrogance and "I too know".



No one is saying he should be slave to his boss.



Make he put "WISDOM" he no wan gree



He lack wisdom.

Talent and determination can get you to the top, your attitude and character will keep you there. No further comment, OP over to you.

Mille:
The first law of Power:

NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power. ( Excerpts from the book, "48 Laws of Power" ).



After your two examples, I must say you need this most. When it comes to power, outshining the masters is the worst mistake of all