Nice People Get Screwed \ aomalley.org

Perform a nice action, and the resultant reaction will leave you feeling screwed.

A polite, courteous, and friendly disposition.

Perform random acts of courtesy as would be the normal course of a nice person.



2002/04	dEb, for interest's sake, sends a relevant link to her co-workers and manager.	Everyone loves the link and her manager insists she have the link added to the company website, leaving dEb to fend her way through the red tape.	SCREWED!

2002/04	dEb and I agree to go to a friend's Tuesday night show because he's particularly worried about attendance.	We arrive early, hang out for a few hours -- bored -- before said friend even arrives, and become too tired to continue waiting for "more people to come" until things can get started; don't even see the show, and go to work the next day exhausted.	SCREWED!

2002/04	My supervisor agrees to help with a client survey, and sends an e-mail to colleagues, soliciting their input for the survey; but, forgets to translate the message into French.	He receives an angry response from a Bilingual colleauge, reprimanding him for forgetting to translate the original message.	SCREWED!

2002/02	Carla gives students her home e-mail address so they can avoid late penalties by submitting assignments electronically.	Carla gets a computer virus on her personal computer and spends $100's to fix it.	SCREWED!

2002/02	dEb gives a friend of a friend (FOF) contact info for her employer.	FOF gets interview and is hired for higher paying job than dEb's.	SCREWED!

It's yours to make . . .

An on-going experiment by dEb and aNDREW.