It's even easier to do all of this to yourself.
How to keep someone with you forever
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#12Duct tape works too.
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#13The advice is great on both fronts wish I read it about 10 years ago. Really bad work places and a really bad relationship, it works even better when you're doing both at the same time. Lesson learned, you can't save the world, shitty people and shitty companies will always be so, the key is to move on and surround yourself with great people both in business and in life.
It's really the same effect in both cases, they always threaten to fire you / leave and when you say OK, they beg you to stay. The crazy part is how effective it really is. I think the article really best describes sociopathic behavior. At least it only really takes about a year to recover from it all.
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#14It reads as if my ex girlfriend wrote it, every single bit. :) I consider me lucky to be here being able to write this.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nitpick: If there was a actual historical character who was anything like "King Arthur" he lived a long time (probably about 600 years) before the first accounts of him written in the Middle Ages.
A good nitpick. I'm definitely on the 'Arthur as fiction' side of the debate. The first proper account of 'King Arthur' was from Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first half of the twelfth century; historical details place that Arthur in the late sixth century. Ignoring the accuracy of a tale told more than five hundred years after the event, if Arthur was real and such an important figure, why did the Venerable Bede fail…
Bede's was not a history of a homogeneous socio-political people, and Arthur, if he was any kind of early mediaeval king, was certainly not King of all Britain. The island was politically fragmented. Record keeping was poor. The very exceptionality of Bede's history would be one reason for its incompleteness. And wikipedia, at the time, was notoriously unreliable.
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#16It reads as if my ex girlfriend wrote it, every single bit. :) I consider me lucky to be here being able to write this.
Or the CIA, explaining how to prevent a political revolution.
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#17I think King Arthur had the last word on this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZUibOUX28 He was the Joel Spolsky of the Middle Ages, I'm telling you.
Nitpick: If there was a actual historical character who was anything like "King Arthur" he lived a long time (probably about 600 years) before the first accounts of him written in the Middle Ages.
Nitpick: Nitpicking the historical accuracy of a reference to a '50s musical is a little nitpickier than average. (Next you're going to tell me the Jellicle Cats aren't really coming out tonight…!)
But yes, point taken. :)
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#18This sounds too much like life in academia as a post-graduate student. It hit too close to home... too close.
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#19Seems like it would take a lot more energy to be manipulative than it would be to excel at something.
But a lot less ability!
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#20This is so good.
I'm sure if you just push yourself a little harder you can get past this current crisis and everything will be ok.