Importance of Being a People Person
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James. He insisted on being called James.
Not Jim. And for goodness sake, don't even think Jimmy.
Everyone told me he was gruff.
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Never smiled.
Never laughed.
Never one to chit-chat.
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Actually, never one to chat, at all.
Unless he was yelling.
And James yelled a lot.
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At workers who feared him.
And subordinates who'd practically hide from him.
But James was brilliant.
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Talk was he graduated in the top of his Ivy League class.
So what he lacked in personal charm, he made up for in business skill.
James was ruthless.
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You needed someone to cut the fat, he was the guy.
He'd even cut some bone for good measure.
Always met his budgets.
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Always beat his targets.
Always earned his pay.
A lot of pay.
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Millions, I'm told.
Until this week, he was told to go.
No longer needed.
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The company was cutting back, because a new company was coming in.
His services were no longer required.
Word is James was shocked.
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So shocked, he got, gulp, emotional.
James cried. Several witnesses confirmed: He cried.
Cried about how he cut costs.
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How he met budgets.
How he did all the things he was ever asked to do.
So why this? Why now?
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"People don't like you," his new boss told him. "And I can't have that here."
Apparently the new boss was a people person who loved talking to his people. People who told him they didn't much like James. That he hurt morale.
Turns out the new boss is big on morale.
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Which is why, in the end, he wasn't big on James, a man who spent his career sucking up.
Undone by the very people he had been putting down.
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