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Help Wanted

Your Colleague Is Being a Jerk... Should You Tell Them?

Help Wanted

Money News Network

Self-improvement, Education, Business

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jason just collaborated with a bona fide jerk. Should he say anything? Nicole helps Jason map out his next steps, and gives you the framework to decide when to push back.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Help Wanted, the show that makes your work work for you. I'm Jason Pfizer,

0:12.1

editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine.

0:14.0

And I'm money expert Nicole Lappin. On Tuesdays, Jason and I answer the helpline and help

0:18.5

callers solve their work problems. And on Thursdays, I give you one way to improve your work and build a career or company you love.

0:26.0

And it starts now.

0:28.0

Okay, Nicole, I'm going to ask you the same question, but in two ways. The first is very simple, and then the second one is this like long

0:34.1

complicated personal journey you ready for it yeah which one am I getting you getting both

0:39.2

oh great okay this is what it means to be friends with me, is to just get it all.

0:43.6

All right, the simple first is when somebody does you wrong in some way,

0:49.9

professionally or personally, although I think we'll start professionally.

0:53.0

Do you tell them, hey, that was a jerk thing.

0:56.0

That was not the way to do it.

0:58.0

Or when do you tell them?

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Because obviously you don't always tell them.

1:01.0

Right.

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Or do you just keep it to yourself or how do you do it?

1:03.5

So that's the question. Okay now I'll tell you the longer personal journey here. So there are a couple phases of

1:10.6

jerkiness to this. Phase number one is this.

1:14.0

There was a guy, expert guy.

1:17.0

We'll just call them Steve.

1:19.4

Steve is an expert guy.

1:20.7

He's got a book.

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