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Bosses, business owners, politicians and celebrities are people too.  Many people think that just because a person has done well in life that normal rules for civility no longer matter.  By treating everyone with common decency, and arguing about problems vs. about people you maintain the dialogue and increase the chances that everyone will reach a happy outcome.

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Everyman IT June 27, 2010 – Eat Grass

There are times to pray, and times to work. Prayer doesn’t pay the mortgage, but hard work will.

PERSON

Actually it’s paid hard work that helps pay the mortgage – to generalise and say “hard work” is both naive and incorrect. My advice is that you really think about what you post, maybe employ a PR agent, so as to prevent you looking foolish and in doing so alienate a potential customer.

Everyman IT

Did you listen to the podcast..?

PERSON

Did you read what I wrote in response to what you wrote? Whether I listened to your podcast or not is irrelevant – those that your words alienated wouldn’t have bothered either.

Everyman IT

Ah well… I’m not worried about it…

PERSON

many failed arrogant business men have the same attitude. All I did was offer a word to the wise (sic) which was suitably dismissed, obviously you know best.

I heard that the word humility can be used quite successfully.

Everyman IT

Dude… with the little compassion for you that is left in my heart please let me ask you to sit down, drink a couple of beers and have a chill pill… Nothing I have said in any of this has been other then reasonable. For this you have called me “naive”, “foolish”, and “arrogant”. If this is how you respond to someone basically saying “There’s time to pray, and time to work”, you have serious issues. Maybe in the UK hard work doesn’t get you anywhere. Here in the USA you do not just make money based on your hard work, but it determines your place in society. If you are rich and lazy you are looked down upon. If you are poor, but work hard even the elites will respect you. My whole business is slanted to the American mindset. I can respect that it offends you, but flaming me on my own fan page is not something that is going to win me over to your side of the argument.