> Personally, I'm not good at kissing ass, so I tended to just > ignore people and get the job done, and eventually they come around (it > really helps if you have a supportive supervisor).
Yes and yes. It's hard not to have a chip on your shoulder when you feel like you're at least as good as everybody else but nobody gives you any credit because you're a youngster to them. I approached a lot of assignments early in my career with an attitude of doing the job just to show everybody else up. Didn't win me a lot of friends, but people did figure out I was technically competant at least. And bless my first couple of supervisors for putting up with me and covering my ass when necessary. At my first job I got in a shouting match with a manager in another organization-- after he called my boss to ream her out about my behavior all she said to me was, "Hal, you can't talk to other managers like you do to me." I could've kissed her. --Hal _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
