#59: Robert Sutton—How To Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt
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🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Many of our favorite movies and TV shows portray jerks at work. From droning Lumbergh in Office Space, clueless Michael in The Office, to sleazy Mr. Hart in 9 to 5, we find these characters so funny because they're true.
It isn't funny, however, actually working with these jerks. According to a recent study, 75% of workers deal with bullies in the workplace. This has a huge effect on the economy, your workplace, and your health.
So, what can you do?
Robert Sutton sets out to answer that question in his new book, The A--hole Survival Guide (his book just says the word). His strategies will provide relief to anyone who feels pushed around by a jerk. You can avoid them, outwit them, disarm them, send them packing, and develop protective psychological armor. Finally, at the end of this post, you can see if you might be adding to the jerk population.
Nobody wants to lose life hours to a bully. Listen to this episode of the Building a StoryBrand podcast. You'll preserve your sanity and have a plan of action to deal with that jerk at the office.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Building a Story Brand podcast where we believe if you can fuse you'll lose. |
| 0:12.1 | Noise is the enemy and creating a clear |
| 0:14.5 | message is the best way to grow your business I'm your host Donald Miller I'm |
| 0:17.8 | joined by my co-host jay jay jay jay jay jay who is the jerkyest person you've ever interacted with? |
| 0:26.2 | I can't look at you when I say that. |
| 0:31.4 | The jerkyest person I've ever interacted with, well I would say maybe on a consistent basis, there was a guy in college who was an administrator at the university that I went to, and I toured for the school. I sang in a group and like was on |
| 0:45.6 | scholarship and toured around and he was in charge of the group before I was in it and he used to make people |
| 0:51.7 | way in when they got into the van over the weekends because I would tour on the weekends and he would actually make them weigh in and if they like weigh you like yeah wait wait wait and so to get in a van and a singing group. |
| 1:03.0 | Yep. If you had gained weight, then you got in trouble. |
| 1:06.0 | Like, so he would actually literally make people... |
| 1:08.0 | What are you talking about? Yeah, he would make people weigh in. |
| 1:10.0 | One time we were on tour and we were out at this thing we had, we were at this big conference. |
| 1:15.0 | We had done six shows in one day. |
| 1:18.0 | It was during this crazy heat wave where a whole bunch of people died in Chicago, like during this heat wave and we were over there and |
| 1:23.8 | everything the end of the day last show I sit down in this green room and I'm |
| 1:28.0 | sit down next to him and I go oh I am so tired and he goes it's because you're fat. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh my God. |
| 1:34.4 | And he literally said and I actually made a lot less than I wait now, but he goes, |
| 1:38.0 | it's because you're fat. |
| 1:39.2 | And from then on if he saw me in the cafeteria at the school, he would come over and like take french fries off of my plate and throw him away |
| 1:46.0 | No, no he did it and then he actually my shoulder wait now. Do you ever just punch? He was a very old man |
| 1:52.1 | Oh, I can't care about as I would have punched him Do you ever just punch? He was a very old man. |
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