I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job - Hardcover

Hershon, Marc; Littman, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316032298 ISBN 13: 9780316032292

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2009

Synopsis

Whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I Hate People!, a smart, counter-intuitive, and irreverent turn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify the Ten Least Wanted — the people you hate — while revealing the strategies to neutralize them. Learn to fly right by the "Stop Sign" (nay-sayer) and rise above the pronouncements of the "Know-it-None." I Hate People! teaches you how to become a more effective Soloist -- one of those bold individuals daring to work alone or collaborate with a handful of other talented people....while artfully deflecting the rest.

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People disappoint. Daily. Hourly. Why not wise up and get ready for it? The sooner you learn to stop getting sucker-punched and letting yourself get pissed off, the sooner you can get back to doing your own thing, your own way. In our book, we’ve selected and analyzed the ten most troublesome types of people, then fired out techniques for going over, under or through them. In the meantime, featuring some of their common phrases, here's a handy guide for spotting the Ten Least Wanted, appearing now in an office near you...

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The Ten Least Wanted character traits as defined by Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon in I Hate People

STOP SIGN "The world is flat." "I think you've had enough fun." "You'll put an eye out with that thing."	FLIMFLAM "Could you work on this project?" "It's a really small, quick thing." "No big deal."
BULLDOZER "What the hell's wrong with you?!" "You're an idiot." "You're lucky I don't fire you."	SMILEY FACE "Would you like a doughnut?" "Were you invited to the company picnic?" "How was your performance review?"
LIAR LIAR "I never got that email." "My hard drive crashed." "You didn't get my voice mail?"	SWITCHBLADE "Hey, that's a great idea! Glad I thought of it!" "I'll smooth it out with the boss." "You just go home -- everything will be alright in the morning."
MINUTE MAN "I just have one more question..." "This will only take a second." "We're almost done."	KNOW-IT-NONE "I saw it on TV." "I saw it on the internet." "I saw it on Wikipedia."
SPREADSHEET "That's not in the budget." "But you didn't do a focus group." "Your dreams conflict with the data."	SHEEPLE "I'm not qualified to make decisions." "I only performed approved work tasks." "I love meetings!"

About the Author:

A contributing editor for Playboy, Jonathan Littman is the coauthor of The Ten Faces of Innovation. He has also written two nonfiction books about famous computer hackers, The Watchman and The Fugitive Game.

Marc Hershon is a branding expert who has dreamt up names for countless hit products, including BlackBerry, Swiffer, Pentium, and Dasani. He is also a comedy veteran who has worked closely with Jerry Seinfeld, Dana Carvey, Paul Reiser, and Robin Williams.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0316032298
• ISBN 13: 9780316032292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272