Dealing With Idiots

Author : Karl Wiebe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497431348
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Idiots written by Karl Wiebe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had "one of those days"—dealing with a non-stop parade of dummies? Whether it is the bank, the grocery store, or even going online, it seems the world is filled with idiots. But what can we do about it? Humor author Karl Wiebe has the answer: a book filled with essays complaining about all aspects of life. Why is the self-checkout so frustrating? Are you secretly cheering for the bull during the rodeo? Why does that guy with 14 items get to use the express checkout, when the sign clearly says 12? Is there a medical reason why public washrooms are so disgusting... so disgusting in fact that even reading an essay about it will stop you from eating your chocolate bar? Eww. Hey, you imagined it. Karl Wiebe's humorous look at life with other people will be a quiet comfort on those days when you need reassurance—reassurance that you are not alone. You are not the only sane person left, although sometimes you may feel like it.

Author : Maxime Rovere
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782838082
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Deal With Idiots written by Maxime Rovere and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge? Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, wit and wisdom, he illuminates a new understanding of idiots, one which examines our relations to others and our own ego, offers tools and strategies to dismantle the most desperate of idiotic situations, and even reveals how to stop being the idiots ourselves (because we're always someone else's idiot). Expertly translated by David Bellos, this is an erudite, enjoyable and much-needed solution to a most familiar vexation.

Author : Robert Bacal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028633701
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Difficult Employees written by Robert Bacal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides managers techniques such as intervention and arbitration to maintain a productive working environment despite problem employees, and discusses ways employees can effectively communicate with difficult bosses and co-workers.

Author : Thomas Erikson
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 1250179955
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surrounded by Idiots written by Thomas Erikson and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner rub you the wrong way? You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was ‘surrounded by idiots’, communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people. Surrounded by Idiots is an international phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. It offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with – in and out of the office – based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow), and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information. Erikson will help you understand yourself better, hone communication and social skills, handle conflict with confidence, improve dynamics with your boss and team, and get the best out of the people you deal with and manage. He also shares simple tricks on body language, improving written communication, advice on when to back away or when to push on, and when to speak up or shut up. Packed with ‘aha!’ and ‘oh no!’ moments, Surrounded by Idiots will help you understand and communicate with those around you, even people you currently think are beyond all comprehension. And with a bit of luck you can also be confident that the idiot out there isn’t you!

Author : Laura Clery
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982167114
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idiots written by Laura Clery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, hilarious, and relatable collection of essays about everything from motherhood and marriage to sobriety and work-life balance (or imbalance) from the nationally bestselling author of the “honest, complicated” (SheKnows) Idiot. TRIGGER WARNING: TORN EVERYTHING! In her first book, Idiot, bestselling author Laura Clery gave us mind-blowingly personal life stories about addiction, toxic relationships, and recovery—establishing herself as the preeminent voice of infinite conviction meets zero impulse control. Here she is two kids later asking, “How did we get here?” Sex. Sex is how we got here. Laura’s life has changed a great deal since she wrote Idiot, but her hilarious candor has only increased with motherhood—plus she tells some of the stories she was too scared to tell in her first book (which is really saying something). “Full of wit” (Publishers Weekly) and charm, Laura shares more than anyone wanted about: -Placenta pills, mom brain, and vibrator manifestation -Nipple-twisting orgies and flinging a butt burrito in your doctor’s face -ADHD, autism, postpartum depression, and the wisdom of a ninety-eight-year-old sage named Anne -Unsolicited dick, sexual assault, and sister-drugging -Cheating, fights, and forgiveness -Choosing love over fear and healing the world Laura does not hold back when it comes to sharing stories of screw-ups, triumphs, and learning from her mistakes. Whether she’s crying into a diaper in a Whole Foods parking lot or desperately soliciting advice from a random elderly stranger (who has most certainly considered a restraining order), Laura is able to laugh at herself even during her worst moments—more importantly, she makes us laugh, cry, and feel less alone in the world.

Author : Glenn Beck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439166833
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arguing with Idiots written by Glenn Beck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes. Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is... ...this book. Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts. And this book is full of them. The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, you'll tell them all about England's handgun ban (see page 53). When they tell you that we should copy the UK's health-care system, you'll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244. And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you'll stop saying "no, they won't" and you'll start saying, "actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just $8 a year more on produce." (See page 139.) Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.

Author : Jim Benton
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671791582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing With the Idiots in Your Life written by Jim Benton and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1993-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Dealing with the Idiots in Your Life is Jim Benton's guide to hilarious quirks in original cartoons. Travel to the Planet of Moms. Find out what really happens when you get to heaven. Discover a society based on a rigid caste system of dudes and geeks. The creator of the popular "Misters" series takes a hilarious look at these and other quirks in 150 original cartoons.

Author : Ben Goode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885027030
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Cope When You Are Surrounded by Idiots written by Ben Goode and published by . This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Lloyd
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601635257
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Office Idiots written by Ken Lloyd and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books that deal with ridiculous behaviors in the workplace are premised largely on conjecture, anecdotes, and limited data, but that’s not the case with Office Idiots. Written by Ken Lloyd, one of the foremost experts on jerks at work, this book relies on data from actual workplaces across America to present a sweeping and frighteningly accurate snapshot of the antics of office idiots. Based on thousands of letters to his newspaper column and Website, jerksatwork.com, this book spotlights office idiots wherever they exist in an organization, followed by practical advice on what to do and even what to say when you encounter them. In addition to providing a vast array of hands-on (and hands-off!) tools, Office Idiots will also show you how to: Deal with some of the most off-the-wall and absurd forms of office idiocy. Avoid enabling behaviors that actually bring out office idiocy in others. Make sure you don’t become an office idiot.

Author : Dr Angelos Rodafinos
Publisher : Α. Rodafinos - Α. Ροδαφηνός
ISBN 13 : 9609210554
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idiots are invincible written by Dr Angelos Rodafinos and published by Α. Rodafinos - Α. Ροδαφηνός. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the idiots? This is one of the few questions in the world that most people agree on its answer: The others... (of course!). Managers, colleagues, teachers, spouses, mothers-in-law -- anyone who doesn’t behave ‘properly,’ that is, the way... we would like them to! Join the Boneheads’ Academy. Congratulations! You’ve just won free life time membership to the idiots’ club, as chances are that you belong to several of the above categories. Time to realize that, if we ask others, you are the idiot in their lives! Idiotic thinking. Time to also realize that, all too often, we are the ‘idiots’ for ourselves! Irrational thoughts and beliefs create problems for our own selves and for those around us. There is hope. The infallible ‘Ro’ method can help you become a professional problem solver, and deal with annoying people, situations, and your own thoughts. A day with Don Stressote. Join in the adventures of this modern-day Don Quixote de la Mancha, a ‘Ro’ method graduate. Watch Don deal effectively with other idiots (drivers, managers, colleagues, clients, friends and relatives), as well as with the most difficult person among all... - himself! A ‘normal’ life is not always a ‘happy’ life. “… grant me the courage to change the things that I can change, the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference between the two”, is a popular motto by Alcoholics Anonymous. Most of us fail in the third part, as we hopelessly try to change things that either are not amenable to change or unworthy of our time and energy. Dealing effectively with either major life events or daily stressors requires the ability to maintain composure / remain calm under pressure, take a time-out and ‘talk sense’ to oneself. Useful questions to ponder when under pressure include: -Is there something I can do right now to solve this problem? -Is it worth my time and energy? -Is my behaviour helping me deal with this and accomplish my ultimate goals? -What can happen to me, if I continue acting in a state of frenzy or remain depressed? -How long can my body endure in this state, without sustaining any undesirable health consequences? -How can I use this event? -What have I learned from it? -What good do I see in all of it? You can’t stop the birds of worry from flying over your head - but you can stop them from building their nest on your head. The book aims to inspire, as well as to educate. In the first part the author discusses stress, its sources and its effects, followed by the ‘Ro’ Method, a simple but complete problem solving process, and a number of examples and real life applications. Then, using a light, humorous and innovative style, the author describes the day of ‘Don Stressote,’ a modern Don Quichote de la Mancha and ‘Ro’ Method graduate, who attempts to apply the theory in everyday life situations. Armed with courage and stoicism, Don deals with the monsters and the dragons (the idiots) of the 21st century: his partner who entered the toilette first and is reading the newspaper insensible to the needs of others, the obese fellow in the elevator, the traffic jam, his stupid boss, the thick-skinned client, as well as the most difficult person among all – his own self and his irrational expectations… Don’s positive state of mind, and his determination and focus on his pledge “I won’t let any idiot ruin my day, ‘cause this is my day!” together with a careful plan of action on how to deal with little annoyances and seemingly unsurpassable obstacles, is what distinguishes our hero from the average/normal citizen. A number of applied psychological techniques, combined with examples and exercises assist the reader to make positive changes towards a) either solving problems or b) altering the way s/he sees the situations.