So, something has come up to remind me of this 2 or 3 times in the last 2 or 3 days. Once, just minutes ago. I'll take that as a sign that I ought to share
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That's a good one. I agree. It can be very easy for some people to forget to consider the need for the existence of a role that requires, or appears to require a slightly altered persona. I knew this dude who ended up being something of an axe-man* at this one company, and it's like he had no idea what a soulless jerk he was. We talked about it once, years later during a chance meeting. I was kind of dumb-founded, firstly at the awareness he had of the bad things he did, and then at his lack of perspective, and the nerve he had to justify it so pathetically in terms of his job. The guy was (and I presume, still is) real scum, and it showed in his life in other ways, too. It would have been one thing if he kept his personal and professional lives separate, but he totally didn't get it.
* I've been so lucky as to have been dismissed by more than one person who I really liked and still do, and even admire (never by the guy I am talking about). So I just thought I should clarify that there is a right and wrong way to do it, and I'm not trying to make this about people firing people or something. It's just the example that I thought of.
* I've been so lucky as to have been dismissed by more than one person who I really liked and still do, and even admire (never by the guy I am talking about). So I just thought I should clarify that there is a right and wrong way to do it, and I'm not trying to make this about people firing people or something. It's just the example that I thought of.
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