Managing? Probably a creep
July 15th 2009 01:30
MEN who are sympathetic, kind, co-operative and warm are unlikely to end up as bosses. To some extent the same applies to women. That might not come as a surprise, but a study has provided firm evidence of the link between personality and job choice.
"People who are boring are more likely to be unemployed," said Michelle Tan, a researcher in the economics program at the Research School of Social Science, at Australian National University, and co-author of the study. "They're not worth knowing about."
The number of boring people has steadily been on the way up since the global economic meltdown made more exciting people think long and hard about re-evaluating the number of people of negligible to non-existent personality they could manage.
"The number of people without a personality is expected to increase," Tan said, crunching her numbers, "and that's going to make it harder for people who do have lots of personality to manage the numbers of boring people they can manage."
Many men and women who have lost their personality are finding it hard to hang onto what few assets they do have as the demand from those who they have leant on over time intensifies the interest they have in liquifying them.
"These boring people who turn to water at the sight of somebody with a lot of personality," Tan said, lighting up a room with a simile, "are like so going to be squashed by those they have banked on," she said. "I'm so not putting you on."
In order for people with personality to manage their assets they have had to put more people on on a casual basis, and that has saved many people from a depression but not, on balance, the loss of many personal effects.
"I had employed my personality to gain me my position," Tan said, on all fours, "and that basically means that I pulled a number on my employers," she said, doing a little number. "It's all about selling yourself," she said, working it.
"People who are boring are more likely to be unemployed," said Michelle Tan, a researcher in the economics program at the Research School of Social Science, at Australian National University, and co-author of the study. "They're not worth knowing about."
The number of boring people has steadily been on the way up since the global economic meltdown made more exciting people think long and hard about re-evaluating the number of people of negligible to non-existent personality they could manage.
"The number of people without a personality is expected to increase," Tan said, crunching her numbers, "and that's going to make it harder for people who do have lots of personality to manage the numbers of boring people they can manage."
Many men and women who have lost their personality are finding it hard to hang onto what few assets they do have as the demand from those who they have leant on over time intensifies the interest they have in liquifying them.
"These boring people who turn to water at the sight of somebody with a lot of personality," Tan said, lighting up a room with a simile, "are like so going to be squashed by those they have banked on," she said. "I'm so not putting you on."
In order for people with personality to manage their assets they have had to put more people on on a casual basis, and that has saved many people from a depression but not, on balance, the loss of many personal effects.
"I had employed my personality to gain me my position," Tan said, on all fours, "and that basically means that I pulled a number on my employers," she said, doing a little number. "It's all about selling yourself," she said, working it.
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