Spoilt BratsMr Newton sighs, "ever known anyone so spoilt you would love to strangle? I lived with a Paris Hilton-a-like who complained about everything, stomped her feet and whinged till she got her way. There was a happy ending though: she had to drop out of uni due to becoming pregnant after a one night stand..."
Who's the spoiltest person you've met? Has karma come to bite them yet? Or did you in fact end up strangling them? Uncle B3ta (and the serious crimes squad) wants to know.
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chthonic, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:11)
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OrwellIt's a good idea on paper (or monitor), but there are always people who will want to be less cooperative than others.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 16:10,
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my most relevant personal experienceis working in a government department, with a manager who was very lacking social skills. I don't think she was naturally a bully, but she kind of turned into one because she couldn't manage otherwise.
'The System' didn't make her have no social skills. But 'the System' did turn her from 'someone with no social skills' to 'a bully with no social skills and power'. It also made one person's problem into 11 people's problem.
The reason she wasn't fired (and I suspect the reason she was hired in the first place) is that the people doing the hiring didn't have to take the consequences of her being hired.
So a worker cooperative would remove her incentive to be a bully, and replace it with an incentive to be 'nice' and get on with people.
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