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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited December 2020
    @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.
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    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. 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    I love the coffee ones @Cress! Send them my way
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,782 Connected
    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.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    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
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    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!
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    edited December 2020
    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!!
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I thought the newspaper i was reasonably neutral? I may be wrong since I don’t read newspapers at all.
  • Richard_Scope
    Richard_Scope Posts: 3,740 Cerebral Palsy Network
    Newspapers have never been neutral.
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    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?

    Richard_Scope said:
    Newspapers have never been neutral.
    However this is true!
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,464 Championing
    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. 
  • Cress
    Cress Online Community Member Posts: 1,005 Trailblazing
    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
  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Online Community Member Posts: 308 Pioneering
    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!! ;) 
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    @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?
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,991 Championing
    edited December 2020
    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
  • newborn
    newborn Online Community Member Posts: 828 Trailblazing
    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
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    @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 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    @Ross_Scope arrogance   I don't like it proper winds me up I nornaly mutter things under my breath  lol
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    @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 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    I dislike it when I park as a disabled person with my blue badge  and still get a ticket 

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