Only dead fish swim with the stream. --Malcolm Muggeridge
I live in a simple world. If it is wrong, stop
doing it. If it is broken, fix it. If it's a lie, speak the truth. Stupid is as
stupid does. If you go along, you get along. Uh….. no. When we go along to get along, we begin to
abandon our own principles and persona. I don’t
want to conform in order to have acceptance and security. I want to fit in with
my differences intact.
From Wikipedia: 'Solomon Asch conducted his classic conformity
experiments in an attempt to discover if people would still conform
when the right answer was obvious. Using confederates, he created the illusion
that an entire group of participants believed something that was obviously
false. When in this situation, participants conformed about a third of the time
on trials where the confederates gave obviously false answers.' So agree to a lie and people will like you.
I picked up an upper respiratory virus while on
vacation which showed up after I returned to work. Bummer. I needed to call in
under the new policy which requires me to speak directly to either my boss or
director. No more leaving a message or texting. I called my boss, left a
message saying I was sick, and would continue to call her. After two more
attempts to the office, one to her cell phone and one to the director with no
answers I left another message. I admit it was a pissy message about attempting
to reach them with no luck. Why make a policy without a way to successfully
implement it? An hour later, I get a pissy call to acknowledge my pissy call. (Was that really necessary, Boss? Hope you feel better now.) When I ask what can be done in the future to reach someone, she says, leave a
message. What? Forrest Gump would be
pleased. Stupidity is based more on our actions than on the speed at which you
think. 
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