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That's a nice story. I bet he didn't last long in the Nixon White House. Anyway, I still don't think your example holds any water. I do think that starting and owning successful businesses does require hard work and the virtues that Huntsman appears to advocate. When you own a business, you...

The point is that people help him, and it appears that he gives very little in return. You have just proven my point. All successful manipulators have good social skills. Most people who have good social skills use them to manipulate others. Based on what I have studied on manipulation, there...

This is why networking is generally a waste of time. Looking for a job is much like being in the water after the Titanic is sunk. The people in the lifeboats don't care if you live or die. This is a good point. How does one get a good reputation? How does one get people to speak positively of...

I think this debate would be better served by incorporating examples of people that we actually know something about--people we know in person, not people we read about in newspapers. I do have one question about Huntsman: Why would a supposedly honest man ever work for Richard Nixon?

He is in that regard definitely. I don't know where you are. Here it is extremely unusual to get to the age of 21 and still not have a driver's license. He grew up in a small town and still lives in a pretty small college town. I can think of another example of a man I know in his 30's. For...

Here's an example that I know very well--my only nephew. On the whole, he's a great young man and also quite smart. I think he's majoring in engineering or something like that right now. He just turned 21. And now for the punch line--my 21-year-old nephew still has no driver's license. He has...

What is the "bare minimum" anyway? I was once on a contract where I was hired along with another guy. He did start two weeks later though. They let me go after nine weeks. The other guy actually had the audacity to call off twice in the first seven weeks I was out there. The bum who called off...

I've only seen that stunt pulled once. I was pretty insistent about getting my personal items myself. I got them in about two minutes. It was fine if they wanted to stand over while I did it. Some people also say that the best way to terminate an employee is to take them to lunch. Another guy...

Sometimes this does happen. I once had a legitimate layoff--the company was out of business within a year. But even in the case of legitimate layoffs, it's quite common for a company to misrepresent its financial status to job candidates. In the interview, they will say: "We're making a profit...

Okay, you got me. But do you honestly think that people like George Bush and Dick Cheney will ever serve any jail time for their manipulative crimes? Did Josef Stalin serve any time for all his murders? Did Mao Tse-tung ever get punished? Carly got a well-deserved firing from HP and got a nice...

You assume that I have "limited experience" because I disagree with you. I have been in the profession for over ten years now. I don't know what your experience is exactly, but it is a very safe bet that our experiences are different. Many of the recruiters I have dealt with don't seem to know...

I'm not here to debate the right and the wrong of what "short-timers" should do or should not do. My point was quite clear--if you lay off someone, you should do it immediately. If an employer is going to stab an employee in the back, then that employer should get the employee out the door as...

Some organizations have about 30-40 hours of work for an IT person. An organization that has that amount of work needs one person and one person only.

The best manipulators are never discovered. If people know that you are a manipulator, you are already doing it wrong. Nobody ever turns on the most successful manipulators.

The assumption here is that I have never done this. You're being extremely presumptuous. Since you are monitoring my posts on here, I suggest you read all of them. Some of them are in this thread. I have wasted hours and hours with them. They have proven themselves to be pretty worthless time...

I was in this situation myself once. I was told that my contract would end, but they would give me almost three more weeks. I was rather shocked by the whole thing. Since I had been sent out there by a staffing company, I didn't do anything destructive. I didn't want to harm my relationship with...

Some companies don't have the budget to hire another IT person. They also may not have enough work for them.

Techietony has told us all that she or he already has a job. When one already has a job, one should certainly not act out of a poverty mentality. At least in my opinion, when one already is employed, one should focus on quality jobs. And in my opinion, quality is a whole lot more than just...

Your most important skill when looking for a job and starting out on a job is simply knowing how to play the game. It doesn't ever matter if you can do the work. If you know how to scratch your supervisor's back, you will go as far as you want. Schmoozing, manipulating, and sucking up beat...

Remember that mysql is free. You can learn it home. They don't care that you have database experience. Employers in IT do not understand the concept of transferable skills. You're going to have put what they want on your resume, whether you actually have the skill or not.