The Audacious Truth Hit List

Good day peoples,

Before you go assuming this is a list of people I’d like to dispose of, it isn’t. This hit list is about types of people who disrupt the smooth flow of business. Naturally, every successful organization relies on quality people to get things done. And for the most part, if your organization recruits well and provides its workers with a clear job description that fits their skill set, you shouldn’t run into too many problems. Having said that, there are a lot of fools out there, and every once in a while, they’ll slip through the cracks. Idiots, though, are pretty easy to deal with. The bigger problem is the type of person who wants to deliberately interfere with your operation. To look into these problems, here is Audacious Truth hit list.

Rats and Moles

You’ve no doubt seen that film Donnie Brasco about the crooked mole Joe Pistone who infiltrated the Bonanno family. Well, moles like Joe Pistone are as bad for business as rats. The difference between rats and moles, though, is that rats have sworn an oath of silence, and by breaking that oath, they prove themselves to be the scum of the earth. This is why they’re called rats, and like a dirty alley rat that scavenges for garbage, they spread disease across the land like a rampant plague.
 

Moles, on the other hand, operate under a different code of conduct, so although they’re a dangerous nuisance, at least they aren’t committing greedy treason by invading your ranks and reporting back to the authorities...

Empty Suits

Empty suits are those guys who stand around twiddling their thumbs and chewing stuff instead of doing something useful. Unlike earners who make money for their organization, an empty suit may hang around because of family ties or because he has pulled the wool over someone’s eyes. In other words, the empty suit is a waste of time because he has nothing to offer the business, and therefore he makes the Audacious Truth hit list. Not only does this make him a burden to the organization, but it likely means someone useful once got fired for bringing someone so useless on board as well.

Blow-Hards

A blow-hard is someone who compensates for their lack of insight by speaking at full volume all the time. A blow-hard is usually shameless and refuses to accept responsibility for the mistakes he makes. And it is this last quality of stubbornness that makes blow-hards so reckless and dangerous. Like any business, your organization cannot afford to be reckless. Sure, there are a few Joe Pesci like characters who come along and are able to back up their reckless tongue with equally reckless violence. Such characters are, of course, viewed with both admiration and fear since they are infinitely valuable while also a permanent threat.

However, these Pesci-like characters are few and far between. More often than not, blow-hards don’t have the balls to be tough guys, while tough guys don’t have the wit to be funny guys. What’s always better is to have a few low-profile storytellers who keep the guys loose, and a few tough guys who keep their mouths shut.

Brown-Nosers

On both sides of the law, you’re bound to find a whole whack of brown nosing ass kissers. That’s right: In case you’d never thought about it, their noses are brown precisely because they’ve gone so far past begging that they’ve turned into animals that suck up in order to get ahead. However, this is something you deal with. And you deal with it because it’s a fairly small yet inevitable price to pay for running ship like a hierarchy, in other words, any operation that has a solid power structure will have its share of brown-nosers. My advice is to have a little fun at the expense of such shameless lackeys. All you have to do is point out an ass-kisser's behavior when a few people are around. By so doing, you’ll remind everyone that you don’t need to sink to their level.

Braggers/Motormouths

There’s a big difference between storytellers and motormouths. Storytellers have a gift and they choose their details wisely. Motormouths are those guys who think out loud and constantly seek approval. In other words, they brag about every little thing, which also what prevents them from doing anything of consequence. Hence, I put them on the Audacious Truth hit list.
 

If you’re the type of dude that needs a pat on the back for getting a girl in the sack, it means you’re not getting much action so you feel insecure until someone hears you shoot your mouth off. If, on the other hand, you check in and out of bed as often as a traveling salesman, then you’ve probably got a story or two that’s worth telling.

Guidos

A few years back, I knew this guido who was driving me home after a night out. Now this guy, acted like a tough guy, full of attitude with super black hair and a different track suit for every day of the week. So anyway, we’re driving down the highway when we run into a road block and the police pull us over for no good reason. However, this guido wasn’t too smart. The policeman comes up to his window and asks for his license and car papers.Guido, instead of playing it like a champ, says to the cop, “You, you got a warrant?” Of course, this try-hard gangster was as clean as a nun’s you-know-what, but after that, he looked as guilty as sin and the whole thing ended in a whole lot of trouble for me. The moral of the story, then, is that guidos are usually just not worth the trouble.

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