Last weekend my wife, Ann and I decided to visit our mothers four hours away.  During the trip Ann suggested we listen to a book on CD to pass the time of a long boring drive.

So the book on CD she selected for our trip was, “The No Asshole Rule, Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t” by Robert I. Sutton PhD. a Stanford University Professor. I must admit the title alone intrigued me.

Surviving Assholes!

As we listened, I couldn’t help remembering the assholes in my own career. I’m sure, anyone reading this can easily identify with dealing with these jerks. I remember one particular jerk that I had to deal with was my supervisor at a Midwest company where I just accepted a management position back in 2003.

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