You’re either good at it or you’re not. This morning as I drove to work with a colleague of mine we were discussing the immense work load we had been thrust into since of late. The conversation then took off from there and transformed into this little discussion of people we don’t like so much.
As we spoke we came to realize how much people around us get away with just by kissing some good ass. And you know the funnest part of the whole excersise is that that ass-kisser doesn’t even let the ass-kiss…ee even know that it’s happening. Man this has got to be a fine art. We see it happening all the time but we can’t even say anything about it because it’s done so well and without flaw.
It’s pissy though how when one person gets so down and dirty with the cracks of the powers that be that others are expected to do the same… Those of us who don’t are then called slackers… we don’ t have enough work… we need to focus much harder and be more committed like certain others… blah, blah, blah… And suddenly all that energy we’ve spent on doing some kickass stuff seems to have been in vain.
I’m sure we’ve all heard the ever-famous “ass-kissing will get you no where” speech right? Can I say B.S. now or should I save that for later?
The amazing thing though is that you take two individuals with the same scope of work and give them the same obstacles to overcome with the only difference being that one of them kisses ass and one of them doesn’t. Here’s how it turns out for the bosses…
Non-Ass-Kisser : Doesn’t use effective time management.
Ass-Kisser : Has too much to do at the same time.
NAK : Needs to be better organized.
AK : Needs a vacation!
NAK : Is a wild card that has loyalty issues.
AK : Would never let the company down, let’s give em a raise!!!
NAK : Is not ready to be promoted yet.
AK : Let’s promote em this year too because what we did last year wasn’t good enough.
Oh the list just goes on and on. I’m in the venting mood this morning so here’s saying screw you to all those “I can never be wrong because I’m so pretty”, eternaly expostulant, suck ups that we all work with every day!!!
HA! Feel better already…
B.
It’s always the fucking birds isn’t it machan? Do absolute fuck all, and make out that they’ve been doing seven hundred times the work they’re supposed to be. It pisses me off no bloody end. Urgh. I’ve just had a fight with a cow in my workplace as well. Urgh.
i do agree that a lot of the time it is the ladies… but what pisses me off more is when the guys do it. you hang out with these dudes and you’ve got this whole brotherhood of man thing going on with them and then suddenly you feel that raw pain your back… you turn around and the bastards are still standing right there holding the damn knife and smiling from ear to ear… URGH doesn’t even begin to describe it but for the lack of a more abusive combination of letters… URGGGGHHHH!!!
Again why I prefer a lab environment to an office one. Everyone does their own work, no one can ‘fake’ work, slacking off/getting in late/leaving early are all fine as long as the work actually gets done, and best of all ass-kissing is pointless because no one is in direct competition with anyone else!
I have to disagree with sophist and brandix. Its just as tough for girls cause we are “Being a Woman in a Man’s World”. The AK will be always there in most companies, Be it male or female. You cant generalise and say that mostly its the girls.
gowri i agree when you say that the gender of AKs can never be defined because be it male or female they do exist all around us. i think what sophist is saying is that for HIM it’s mostly women, and even for me, in my office, it’s mostly the women but i know a few men who are a hundred times worse…
what i don’t agree on though is the whole “woman in a man’s world” thing. i think we’ve come a long way from the Mars/Venus battles and we’ve established that women have equal rights in this world.
on a grand scale, women have more laws that protect them, they have a wider range of clothes and accessories to choose from and on some level they are rated more successful than most men… to digress for one moment… take the advertising industry…
Grant McCann Erikson – headed by Neela Marikkar and cheif operations officer Laila Gunesekere Martinstein, Lintas LDB – the initials actually stand for the boss Lilamanie Dias Benson, JWT Sri Lanka – where two of the three vice presidents: Chandini Rajaratnam (also Executive Creative Director) and Shivanthi Jayasinghe (also Director Operations and General Manager RMG Connect) are both women…
Back to the subject where my point is, this is no longer a “man’s world” on the contrary i think the ladies have taken over, it’s tougher for us now because we’ve actually become men who live in a woman’s world.
But again, i do agree with the fact that ass kissers are both male and female and no gender can define them. my apologies there.
well, i think in my case these views come from the work environment and family set up that i come from. Your point is well taken that women are doing well in many parts. But for people like me i work in a place where its mostly men they have the main say. My family is a traditional south indian family where they do not believe in equal rights for guys and girls. Its always about what the men have all the say. I think i am going off track from the AKs here. The AKs are a menace to the society
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menace doesn’t even begin to describe it. i just had an experience last evening and i was so annoyed!
It’s hard to accept that ass kissing is a must needed commodity now adays. Based in my experiecpnce, working smart is better than working hard. And on my opinion, ass kissing is working smart. Too bad I’m a lousy ass kisser.