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I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job Hardcover – June 10, 2009

by Marc Hershon (Author), Jonathan Littman (Author)
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Whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I Hate People!, a smart, counter-intuitive, and irreverent turn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify the Ten Least Wanted — the people you hate — while revealing the strategies to neutralize them. Learn to fly right by the "Stop Sign" (nay-sayer) and rise above the pronouncements of the "Know-it-None." I Hate People! teaches you how to become a more effective Soloist -- one of those bold individuals daring to work alone or collaborate with a handful of other talented people....while artfully deflecting the rest.
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People disappoint. Daily. Hourly. Why not wise up and get ready for it? The sooner you learn to stop getting sucker-punched and letting yourself get pissed off, the sooner you can get back to doing your own thing, your own way. In our book, we’ve selected and analyzed the ten most troublesome types of people, then fired out techniques for going over, under or through them. In the meantime, featuring some of their common phrases, here's a handy guide for spotting the Ten Least Wanted, appearing now in an office near you...

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The Ten Least Wanted character traits as defined by Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon in I Hate People

STOP SIGN

"The world is flat."

"I think you've had enough fun."

"You'll put an eye out with that thing."

FLIMFLAM

"Could you work on this project?"

"It's a really small, quick thing."

"No big deal."

BULLDOZER

"What the hell's wrong with you?!"

"You're an idiot."

"You're lucky I don't fire you."

SMILEY FACE

"Would you like a doughnut?"

"Were you invited to the company picnic?"

"How was your performance review?"

LIAR LIAR

"I never got that email."

"My hard drive crashed."

"You didn't get my voice mail?"

SWITCHBLADE

"Hey, that's a great idea! Glad I thought of it!"

"I'll smooth it out with the boss."

"You just go home -- everything will be alright in the morning."

MINUTE MAN

"I just have one more question..."

"This will only take a second."

"We're almost done."

KNOW-IT-NONE

"I saw it on TV."

"I saw it on the internet."

"I saw it on Wikipedia."

SPREADSHEET

"That's not in the budget."

"But you didn't do a focus group."

"Your dreams conflict with the data."

SHEEPLE

"I'm not qualified to make decisions."

"I only performed approved work tasks."

"I love meetings!"

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Playboy contributing editor Littman (coauthor of The Art of Innovation) and Hershon, comedian and branding expert, offer a guide for surviving corporate life, flush with clever nomenclature for specific types of exasperating co-workers, such as the Stop Sign, who always has a reason your idea won't work, or the Bulldozer, who bullies his projects through the system. But rather than offering constructive ways of collaborating with problematic colleagues, Hershon and Littman spend most of the book suggesting ways to avoid them altogether by being a soloist, a corporate loner who taps into innovative reserves rather than bending to be a team player. The authors give examples of such successful soloists as Craig Newmark, corporate misfit and founder of Craig's List. While amusing and filled with entertaining examples of antisocial geeks who made good, the aim and audience of the book is unclear. The reader is left wondering if it is better to opt out of corporate life altogether rather than have to confront co-workers who exhibit chronically unacceptable behavior. (June)
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 10, 2009
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316032298
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316032292
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.69 x 8.25 inches
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  • Lady Haase
    5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! What a book!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2015
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    What a book! I have already recommended it to five people and will continue. Written in "good old" standard English, the authors explain our need for time alone to do the thinking a writing necessary for clear thinking and design and writing. The first half of the book talks about the corporate world and the necessity for the productive worker to find a place to hid and think through the issue set before him or her. The second half encourages us "Soloists" and many would be "soloists" to be connected to the "office" but at attached. Work hard but don't neglect the "me" time you need to recoup to energy and your love? tolerance ? for those around you who are in the traditional corporate culture and are wedded to it. And this recouping thing is not just a then minute break, but 1/2 day to take a walk in the country, get up at 4:00 am and exercise for an hour, take a leave of absence of two weeks or a month every four months, chant, doodle with others who like to do these things. This behavior energizes the mind and refreshes the energy in the body. The authors also suggest strategies you might use for those who don't want to change and don't want you, too, to change.
    Great Fun!
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  • Elizabeth III
    5.0 out of 5 stars You are not alone. Those workplace crazies are all around us!!! But there is hope!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015
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    Has some interesting and inspirational ideas for succeeding either in the workplace or in your own business while dealing with various types of workplace saboteurs you may encounter. Anyone with any time in the workforce will identify with the bosses and coworkers mentioned in the book. Wish I had read this before I had a meltdown from a bully of a boss. That experience set my career back several years and caused me to completely change career fields. At the time, I felt completely alone. Sad as it is, it is comforting to know my experience was not unique and that I now realize I have choices and tools in dealing with these types in the future.
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  • rciardetti
    3.0 out of 5 stars It is OKAY
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2013
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    Too many words for a simple message. Interesting enough to skim through it.
    Reading was boring as it took too long to finish the idea noted that is easily understood by the reader.
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  • Angela Massel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best Business Book Ever Published!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2009
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    This book should be required reading material for any employee at any corporation. I don't normally read self-help books, let alone business self-help books. However, "I Hate People" has been a tremendous help to me both professionally and psychologically. It offers very real solutions to dealing with some of my colleagues that drive me crazy and prevent me from being most effective at my job. It's hugely entertaining, insightful, and useful. I even bought my manager a copy as for a Christmas gift.

    Littman and Hershon should win a Nobel prize in literature for this work!
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  • Justin D. Anderson
    2.0 out of 5 stars Don't Read This Book If You Like Your Job!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2009
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    This book attempts to dissect the corporate world and describe all of a person's human obstacles to advancement. The downside, it does it in excruciatingly dry detail peppered with bitterness and anger. I have worked in the corporate world for many years and, despite the obstacles, love my job. Rather than learning how to deal with people and still enjoy their good side, this book inspires the reader to have total distrust for others.

    If you like your job, don't read this, it will only make you miserable and see villains among all of those you spend 8+ hours a day with.
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  • Gaby at Starting Fresh blog
    4.0 out of 5 stars Don't read this at work! Subvert the overbearing and underhanded at your workplace
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2009
    Synopsis:
    Designed for navigating pitfalls and stop signs in the workplace, I HATE PEOPLE! helps you identify the top drains on your time and resources and teaches office jujitsu tactics to help wrest back your time.

    Divided into four parts, the book first identifies and classifies each of The Ten Least Wanted who pose the greatest threat to getting your work done in the office. Without going into a full discussion of The Ten Least Wanted, here they are:

    * Stop Sign (like the Kodak executive who predicted digital cameras had no future)
    * Flimflam ("expert at identifying people to do her bidding")
    * Bulldozer ("wrong decision is better than indecision")
    * Smiley Face (think Batman's Joker - constantly smiling with something up his sleeve)
    * Liar Liar
    * Switchblade (Judas)
    * Minute Man ("Do you have a minute, I just have one thing...")
    * Know-It-None (full of facts, but most of which are useless or wrong)
    * Spreadsheet (Obsessive micromanager)
    * Sheeple (avoids making decisions)

    The second part of the book introduces the concept of Flying Solo. If you enjoy your work but not distractions from people around you, then your best solution would be to become a successful Soloist. As a soloist, on your best days, you are someone who works effectively with small groups and on your own. By sharing the stories and techniques of successful soloists from a broad range of industries and companies, the book develops a clear picture of how a soloist works.

    The last half of the book deals with the work environment. The third section, Office Life, incorporates The Ten Least Wanted with the constraints and demands of office life, such as constant interruptions, disruptions, unreasonable expectations and demands, and excessive rules and red tape. While the last section, Spaces and Places, discusses the need to carve out your own "personal cave" - whether you work in a bull pen, a cubicle, office with a door, or occasionally from home.

    Review:
    The advice and strategies are interspersed with enough anecdotes from successful soloists to make I HATE PEOPLE! both helpful and interesting read. I'll spare you the comments about how I would have loved to read this while working at Big Law or any similarly predictable remarks. I do think the book's strength is that it helps identify the difficult people and situations that we absorb, acquiesce and live out on a regular basis. I look forward to trying out several of the suggested strategies, such as being more sensitive to and wary of the Switchblades around and trying a "hard stop" with my Minute Man.

    I'd recommend this book to anyone who feels frustrated in the office and is looking for ways to eke out more time and autonomy.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Buena lectura
    Reviewed in Spain on March 19, 2022
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    Un libro interesante, especialmente si eres la clase de persona a quien le han enseñado que siempre debe estar pendiente de las necesidades de los demás de forma incondicional.
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