The Gig Is Up!
 

man there onto our game!


http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...#axzz2l2ASU6le

I've always considered honesty to be my greatest personal flaw.

Chas

When I first started as a gov employee I was told I was too honest and I needed to fix that if I expected to advance.
Lol.

If you were truly TOO honest, you would have told 'em that you didn't give a shit about what they thought.

Chas

honesty is not all it's cracked up to be alright

That is exactly what I told them and it got me in a heap of trouble. Seems it was two members of the board if supervisors that wanted me to 'exaggerate' a bit on my reports to the state.
They couldn't fire me without exposing their dishonesty, but they did maneuver me out of that job. I came to work every day for two months with no job to work and insisted they give me work to do. I think they thought I would give up and disappear, but I needed the health insurance and wasn't about to leave when I had done nothing wrong.
I'm still here.... Those two board members are not.

By God, you ARE honest to a fault.

We need more people like ya.

Chas

I kinda look at it like a concealed weapon.

It's a great thing to have, just pray that you never really have to use it.

Because you're gonna be sorry, even if you win.

Chas

yes
it is sort of like mutually assured destruction
MAD

Honesty is only an asset if everyone around you reciprocates.
Reminds me of Billy Joel's lyrics
"Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue"

But then I went to school in India, so I may be scarred. :)

You got caned too? Damned British school system.;)

Oh yes. On my behind at home and on the palm at school. It was measured and never severe.
I went to an English language school where one of our motto's was, you got it:
Honesty is the best policy.
Not very many practiced it as cheating at exams was rampant.

Honesty can be a dangerous attribute. Plata o plomo.

"There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it."

Mark Twain


- Following the Equator

Thread = win.

Reminds me of an old joke, every time the guy told a lie his, um, wang grew. He ended up being called honest joe or something like that, honest to a fault :)

Pete

I feel a song coming on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCXRf_Flps

Tom! Come back!

I want to beat you up for posting that song!

Let me have a swipe at him first....

I believe the study is flawed. Just Indian students. In Bangalore

Tag team! :D

I was once told I would never advance because "......you care about those people (fellow employees) too much. You need to learn to not give a shit about them. That's what gets you ahead."

I was sitting there thinking, "What makes you think I want to be like you?":)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeqFqAi-CE

Dave