Be Nice to Your Boss: How to Succeed Without Seeming Tody

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The discussion centers on the desire to improve workplace relationships with bosses after previous negative interactions. The individual expresses a willingness to adopt a more agreeable demeanor to foster a smoother work environment, despite anticipating personal discomfort with this change. Suggestions include complying with requests without question and reducing negative comments. The conversation also touches on the notion that overly cheerful employees may have ulterior motives, such as embezzlement, and humorously references a historical outlaw, Marlow Hood, to illustrate the speaker's reluctance to adopt a negative persona. The overall theme emphasizes the struggle between maintaining authenticity and adapting behavior for workplace harmony.
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To my boss, since all my plans to escape from this place have come to nothing, and i may be here for some time yet, i thought i should try to be nicer to my boss'es, trouble is i do not know how, i have got away with some serious remarks in the past, it is not that i am afeared of them any more now than in the past, it is i would like things to go a bit smoother,
so how can i be nicer to them whithout seeming to be toady.
I know i will hate myself after a week or two of being Mr nice guy, but i am willing to suffer.
 
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Happy, smiling employees are like that because they're embezzling something.
 
Rach3 said:
Happy, smiling employees are like that because they're embezzling something.

I know my name can be linked to an old time outlaw, but i do not want to become a hood :biggrin:
 
Just be mean to them less.
 
Do what they ask without question or comment. That would probably be a good start.
 
wolram said:
I know my name can be linked to an old time outlaw, but i do not want to become a hood :biggrin:
Marlow Hood - that was a bad rascal! Didn't he get hanged for overstating profits? In for a penny, in for a pound/
 
turbo-1 said:
Marlow Hood - that was a bad rascal! Didn't he get hanged for overstating profits? In for a penny, in for a pound/

No you have picked the famous side of my family :frown: none of them got hanged AFAIK.
 

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