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With VENDORS:
Seems to me honest professional business practices & standards are slowly fading away and are being replaced by slide of hand sales tactics/gimmicks.

A vendor I work with can't write me a proposal to save their life yet they have cornered the market and are making significant coin (got lucky with marketing a product). It's gotten to the point that I have to teach them how to engage in business with our organization and it just bewilders me. Now some readers may be saying, "hey it's just a bad vendor..right?" I'm working with their #1 competitor who is multi-billion dollar company yet cannot deliver me a proposal on their new product offering either. I'm not asking for the moon here. Just tell me why we should buy it, the benefits, who supports it and anything to do with financials. Both companies just want to cut to the chase and work out a $$ compensation deal in some word document without giving us the necessary information to make logical business decisions. Personally this just blows my mind. In the last ten years I've felt the professionalism in business has declined and is steadily getting worse. Just makes you want to quit business and become a sun lotion salesman on the beach.

Co-workers:
Backstabbing, cheating, idea stealing grubby co-workers need to be sprayed with silly string, doused in lighter fluid, torched and tossed off the a three story building with a post-it note on their forehead that says "I'm a donkey...can I kiss you as#."

Stupid bosses:
Strap'em to their executive chair, stick pencils up their noses, cover their face in white-out, superglue their eyes open and chain them to the local bus that stops in front of the building. Then as he/she leaves wave bye-bye and get ready for the next one.

HR:
Just avoid them as they have nothing but rules and rules and rules to follow which never get applied to the Stupid bosses or Co-Workers mentioned above.

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Truth
Submitted by audiokid on Wed, 12/13/2006 - 04:45.

Oh man, do I know what you're talking about when it comes to co-workers. See, when I run stocking (which is like 95% of the time), I try to make sure EVERYTHING gets done, because if it doesn't I WILL be blamed. But, I'll help some guy out if he asks me, then I find out that he left an half-hour ago! What the hell? Where's the teamwork in that? Everything goes SO much smoother if you have co-workers who don't make you look over your shoulder every 5 Seconds.

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Teamwork
Submitted by StickyGumby on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 06:35.

Boy you brought up another word that hit me- Teamwork. Yes this is lacking in the general population. Every man/woman for themselves it seems like these days. I worked in several internet startups where loyalty towards another was never relied on. Power struggles galore with Exec re-orgs at least every 6 months. Same people jsut shuffled around to different positions. I once worked in a company where we had two Chief Operating Officers at the same time. That was weird to watch in meetings. Our leader at the time was this odd rolly polly guy who really didn't have much common sense. I watched multi-million deals go down the tube because of this dude. Deals with national brand companies of which you would know. After about 6 months of this guy someone on the board did a profile search and he turned out to be a fake. I'm not lying- God's honest truth. I don't even know his real name! He was caught and eventually fired. If I say more I'll let the cat out of the box which I cannot do.

Anyways, I'm like you I help out- it's my nature; however, folks take advantage of that for personal gain. I think we've all felt that stinger before and it "ain't no fun."

I remember you for your other post. Keep up the work ethic, it will pay off in the future. I believe what goes around comes around.
Cheers

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