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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,686 Disability Gamechanger
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    @Cress I take it you are not overly keen on the coffee ones!!
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  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    edited December 2020
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    @66Mustang when I was a child I was told never to blow my own trumpet, ie say I’m good at such and such, as a consequence I was never chosen by others to do anything much at all! Very frustrating. So as I aged I told it like it is, I said yes I can do xyz and if asked if I was any good at it I’d say yes I am, if that was the case.

    i had selective mutism when I was a child and being told not to say if I was any good at something really didn’t help at all! 

    There are ways and ways of saying something, arrogance is distasteful and ugly but simply stating a fact for what it is is quite another matter imo.

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

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  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,493 Disability Gamechanger
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    I think it depends on the general culture of the workplace and industry @66Mustang. At the end of the day, the interviewer wants someone the rest of team could get along with, but team dynamics vary a lot from place to place. I'd like to think most workplaces don't want to hire someone who comes across as really arrogant! You're right about it being a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and I think it's a line a lot of people cross by accident. People also change up how they behave depending on the situation. It's a generalisation, but I know people who work in sales type jobs who say they have to act very self-assured and a bit pushy at work, but they're modest and mild outside of work. 
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  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,493 Disability Gamechanger
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    I love the coffee ones @Cress! Send them my way
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  • [Deleted User]
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    Unpopular opinion: The Daily Mail is written and read by people who are, to put it politely, a bit thick IMO.
    Unpopular opinion 2: The Daily Telegraph is also the same as the Mail.

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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,686 Disability Gamechanger
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    leeCal said:
    @66Mustang when I was a child I was told never to blow my own trumpet, ie say I’m good at such and such, as a consequence I was never chosen by others to do anything much at all! Very frustrating.
    Yes this is very true and kind of what I meant, if you are modest you are at a disadvantage, the world wants us to blow our own trumpet haha :D
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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,686 Disability Gamechanger
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    Tori_Scope said:
    People also change up how they behave depending on the situation. It's a generalisation, but I know people who work in sales type jobs who say they have to act very self-assured and a bit pushy at work, but they're modest and mild outside of work. 
    That’s actually a really good point. I guess most people don’t want to buy a product from someone who comes across as unsure that their product is the best!
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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,686 Disability Gamechanger
    edited December 2020
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    MrAllen1976 said:
    Unpopular opinion: The Daily Mail is written and read by people who are, to put it politely, a bit thick IMO.
    Unpopular opinion 2: The Daily Telegraph is also the same as the Mail.

    To be honest I think while you are right most of the newspapers are written for their target audience. 

    Yes the Mail is very right wing but there are left wing papers that are very biased towards the left as well.

    What the world needs is a neutral paper but alas no one would buy it as people like to get angry over the paper while they have their breakfast!!
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  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
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    I thought the newspaper i was reasonably neutral? I may be wrong since I don’t read newspapers at all.

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

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  • Richard_Scope
    Richard_Scope Posts: 3,653 Scope online community team
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    Newspapers have never been neutral.
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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,686 Disability Gamechanger
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    leeCal said:
    I thought the newspaper i was reasonably neutral? I may be wrong since I don’t read newspapers at all.
    That is true, I used to buy the i, it was quite a good paper. If I remember correctly it’s like a “bite size” version of the independent?

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    Newspapers have never been neutral.
    However this is true!
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  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,493 Disability Gamechanger
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    Yeah, The i is a sister newspaper to The Independent I believe @66Mustang. I think it's liberal/centric @leeCal. I agree that all newspapers have a bias. I also think it'd be very challenging to produce a totally neutral newspaper. 
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  • Cress
    Cress Community member Posts: 1,012 Pioneering
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    66Mustang said:
    @Cress I take it you are not overly keen on the coffee ones!!
    Hate them!
    I think they're a muggle version of Bertie botts every flavour beans...the coffee cream would be the equivalent of earwax flavour to me!  :s
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  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Community member Posts: 152 Pioneering
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    Extroverts attempting to impose their lifestyle on introverts. 

    Here's the scoop:  we're not shy!  We're not bashful!  We're not socially awkward!  We're introverts and, frankly, being in amongst all your extroversion exhausts us!!   

    We will join in if/when we want - ask us, give us the option to join in but, please, just don't attempt to bully us into it!    

    Phew!! ;) 
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  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Community member Posts: 430 Pioneering
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    @66Mustang,

    There are lots of people in the workplace who do things to feather their own nest and not to help anyone. These people are very  arrogant and unless you agree with the nonsense they spout, you are seen as a troublemaker?

    There are more and more of these types of people who will do whatever they want regardless of the consequences to the people they harm. 

    Unfortunately these are the types of people that many employers want and promote?
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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,686 Disability Gamechanger
    edited December 2020
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    Bumping this as I thought of another one...

    A bit more of a light-hearted one as it’s Christmas...

    Tears on clothing. What is that all about? If you legitimately tore your jeans while wearing them, fair enough (but I’d stitch them up personally) but to buy clothes with rips already in them...? Why do people do that...? If you were treating yourself to a brand new car, and paying full price, would you buy one that was covered in scratches and dents, and perhaps had a broken door mirror, for that “distressed” look? :D

    It’s not just jeans either. I saw a picture of somebody in a magazine, no idea who, a pointless celebrity, and all their attire was ripped, including their shirt. Some of the rips were in such places that certain parts of her body were exposed and it honestly looked like she had been indecently assaulted! I read the story to see if the photo was the aftermath of an assault but no she’d just come out of an event!!

    Oops this was meant to be light-hearted.

    I realise I’m in the minority but this is “your unpopular opinions”. :D
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  • newborn
    newborn Community member Posts: 832 Pioneering
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    leeCal said:
    People should need special permission to cut down any tree or large bush. We need more trees and bushes imo to help with global warming and wildlife in general.
    True.  How come so much is so obvious to so many, yet beyond the brainpower of central or local government?    One or two of them must have heard the words Climate Emergency
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  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,911 Disability Gamechanger
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    @janer1967 you mentioned nurses i think carers should get paid more than they do  I was getting 9.00 an hour working 12 hours a day 6 days a week sometimes no day off when they were desperate for carers for 20 years I worked all over Xmas 
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  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,911 Disability Gamechanger
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    @Ross_Scope arrogance   I don't like it proper winds me up I nornaly mutter things under my breath  lol
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  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,911 Disability Gamechanger
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    @66Mustang sometimes people say about their achievements  because of things that have happend to them and if they tell someone their achievements  it makes them feel better about themselves  and helps them move on 
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