CattyNebulart Wrote:When they ask how others see you they ussualy want to know a few things.Funny, I decided to ask my ex boss and colleagues about this. I figured I'd rather give an honest answer..depending on what they said about me of course *grin*
1) You are not a raving egomaniac.
2) You have a sense of humor.
3) You can deal with questions that don't have a good answer under pressure.
4) You are convincing.
5) How you see yourself.
6) How good you are at self-evaluation. (Note; Humans are not, if you are any good at this you should probably be in a padded room, but humans tend to believe they are good at this.)
What exactly from those above they are looking for and how it's weighted depends on a lot of factors. They rarely will take your answer at face value, otherwise it would be to easy to say 'As a god among men who deserves a two billion dollar yearly salary.'. On the other hand if you can convince them of that you probably are and do.
Seriously it's like the question 'Does this make me look fat?' that is not a yes or no question even though it looks like one. Similarly this is not a question on how others see you but one on how you see yourself, and how you answer is more revealing than the answer.
What came back was uniformly this: Quote my ex-boss
Very loyal (a rare quality I subscribe to no one..but I do to you)
Funny, he'd let me go, but I do understand why he had to do it. The others said the same thing. The humorous thing the my favorite supervisor said is that one of my points for improvement is that I'm so loyal that if someone crosses me that it then there is no forgiveness. I think I remember the incident that sparked that remark. One of the contractor's workers locked me in inside a containment while I was doing clearance work and they didn't let me out until almost 3 hours later. He denied anyone of his people doing. I smelled a rat at that point and I was pushing for nailing his hide and his company to the wall for that incident. She (my supervisor) was pushing me to back down, primarily for the stink it would raise. I finally gave in, but I felt betrayed. I always thought you took care of your people before profit.We never had the same easy going relationship after that. Ah well...
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