This man’s basic message is that facts don’t matter, just attitudes. But, facts are stubborn things. The road is littered with would-be superheroes who thought they could do anything because they put their enthusiasm to it. Bad attitudes stink but they don’t exist in a vacuum. Good attitudes are bought and paid for, just like any other useful product is. You won’t get them by being oppressive.
Vox, your words are so very true and thoughtful. Thank you for sharing this view. I feel the same, but could not translate it without it sounding like I have a bad attitude….maybe a slightly bent spirit, but not a bad attitude. I would like this on a bumper sticker: ” The road is littered with would-be superheroes who thought they could do anything because they put their enthusiasm to it.”
IJ, what a timely article! Let’s hope that the idiotic trolls on this site read it and get something out of it, because their attitude is awful. Also, the “worker bees” who are so upset that they aren’t making as much as the boss or the ones who complain that they are working too much overtime. Good workers with a good attitude generally do quite well and they get to go home on time. UW, Confused, Actu, Celtica, David, Ron, Captain Planet, pay attention, this is for you.
I do quite well and only work overtime when I decide to or need to. I have a positive attitude and have been recognized for such. One of my mottos is, “quitters never win and winners never quit.” I work as long as I need to in order to get the task complete. It’s called being a professional. What’s your excuse?
DePolar, I am afraid Planet is the new face of the bots out there down voting me 200 times while up voting himself. He thinks he speaks for everyone and is part of the crowd that wants to dismiss everything Conservative. The stench from Iowa is pretty bad. Must be all those 48 million chickens they lost from disease and the tainted Cookie Dough dispensed.
October 19, 2016 at 12:35 pm
Captain Planet says:
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I do not cast any likes or dislikes out here. Cast your insults elsewhere, Agent. Or, would you like me to let IJ know?
October 21, 2016 at 1:53 pm
insurance is fun! says:
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Agent, don’t be so egotistical to believe that someone would spend that much time out of their day on YOU. No, it’s simple. It’s just that more than 200 people don’t like you or your deplorable opinions.
October 21, 2016 at 3:01 pm
Deplorables says:
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DePolar, I think we have it narrowed down to Celtica or Insurance is fun since the others continue to maintain their innocence. Of course, we do have to take into account that they are liberals.
October 21, 2016 at 4:32 pm
Confused says:
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Current tally of insults just on this topic:
Confused = 0
Agent = 7
When will you stop trying to pretend that I am the person who insults the most on this blog?
October 25, 2016 at 4:35 pm
Deplorables says:
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DePolar, are you curious as to who has the worst attitude on this blog? Take a look at all the down votes on us and that will give you a picture of who these dudes are. Let’s see, Captain Planet, insurance is fun, Confused, Celtica, boogereater by bogus name back with moniker change since he was run off before.
October 18, 2016 at 1:57 pm
Captain Planet says:
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This explains a lot about some of the posters I see out here!
Those who thumbed this down must have taken my statement negatively. Probably those who usually choose the wrong attitude. Re-read it in a positive light and then you’ll catch my true meaning.
A good attitude is also a “Can Do” attitude. Employees that show initiative and this trait get promotions and raises.
A friend of mine in the insurance business once told me that if you want to get something done, quoted and put together, give it to the busiest CSR in the office and she will get it done. Give it to the least busiest and they will lag and not get it done. I have found that to be true for many years.
I was unaware I mentioned your name at all dude. However, if you took it personally, you have a worse attitude than I thought. Perhaps you have joined Planet in all the down votes, it confirms my suspicions.
I’ve been to meetings/seminars where certain agents or managers were held up/extolled? for their attitudes and business methods. Strange, many of those people were later asked to leave the companies for various reasons…….
I have been to meetings where company executives were extolling the virtues of the company and were later dismissed after they took the company down the wrong road and results were poor.
DePolar, yes they are running scared now, the agenda has been thoroughly exposed so they go completely off the deep end. I hope a number of them move out of the country as they threatened to do when Trump wins. The Progressive agenda is in complete shambles and they have the leadership to blame for it.
I’m not running away – I just see your continued and predictable insults and avoidance of direct questions. You know, like “what were you expecting to accomplish when you insulted me?” above or “which would you prefer – automated drivers taking all distracted texters off the road or keeping those drivers behind the wheel and not having automated drivers at all?”
I now wait your response and again I bet it will be either (1) to not post on this topic anymore, (2) to tell me I word parse and I was wrong about what you said, (3) keep up with the same insults you’ve used ad nauseam or, (4) find a new batch of insults to throw my way.
Last time you picked #3. I wonder which it’ll be this time. I sincerely hope it’s number 5 though – a non-insulting reply to the questions asked. That would be great.
DePolar, Some of the “clowns” went to Journalism school and were indoctrinated into the liberal agenda and when they got a job in journalism, they could taint their reporting to the leftist side. All one has to do is look at the evidence on any major network. At least 90% of them are totally biased. It is really sad what this nation has become. The Ministry of Information is what they want the public to know. The only bastion of good information is the internet and they want to take that over as well.
Some folks have bad attitudes just by nature. Rarely do they last long. After 43 years in the insurance business, all on the carrier side, I can say that I’ve seen bad attitudes develop because of poor ineffective ego driven management.
Another way workers become discouraged is when executives trumpet “our employees are the most important part of what we do” and “open and honest communication is essential” and they don’t back up the words. They don’t want to know what workers think. Those at the top are told what they want to hear, not the truth.
Workers become drones, just plugging along day after day because they know that they mean nothing. Seen it more than once.
Jadefox, I, too have been in this business a long time. The carrier/agent relationship is not what it used to be. They often put out platitudes about how important the relationship is and then go off in other directions like selling direct over the internet, cut commissions, put out Modeling that doesn’t work and take rate which makes them uncompetitive in the market. Marketing reps just shrug their shoulders and make excuses.
How right you are! I recall a major stock company touting the value of the agency relationship. How it supported the agency system. All the while, placing each in a category and then tailoring the delivery of services according to the category.
The lowest category, called Heritage, received no agency visits from anyone; forget pricing consideration and forget offering any sort of help on an account.
In one case, the agency celebrated 100 years of representing the company and guess what. The resident vice president mailed the 100 year plaque to them! He cited that heritage agents don’t get any visits.
How terrible! The resident VP must be the new age guy and couldn’t miss his mid week golf game, I suppose. Our agency is not that old, but we do have a couple of 25 year plaques and they were hand delivered and on prominent display in our reception area. Customers remark on them all the time and it shows longevity and stability.
Jadefox, Here is a great quote from one of the country’s founding fathers.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson
Now, the people that disagree with this are free to down vote me at least 200 times.
How bout when your company asks for feedback. You give it honestly and then they wiped their butts with your opinion. And how bout all those pretty paralegals, eh? Coincidence?
Experience we have had at an agency level is complacency, do just enough to get by. No sense of achievement or appetite for success. Funny how some employees think they are entitled to a raise within six months yet fail to get their license or learn something new in the insurance industry. The biggest problem?..getting to work on time!
Jestr, sounds like you made some poor hires. Complacent employees are just there to collect their paychecks every two weeks. If they don’t care enough to get their education for licensing, they have no business being in the agency. Not getting to work on time is another example of being complacent and not caring about the success of the agency. Reliability is important.
In another article, someone who was a Worker Bee was complaining about their pay. I wonder if that Worker Bee was one of the complacent employees. They also complain about their long work hours. Good employees that know what their duties and responsibilities are get their work done on time and show initiative. They are the best.
This man’s basic message is that facts don’t matter, just attitudes. But, facts are stubborn things. The road is littered with would-be superheroes who thought they could do anything because they put their enthusiasm to it. Bad attitudes stink but they don’t exist in a vacuum. Good attitudes are bought and paid for, just like any other useful product is. You won’t get them by being oppressive.
Vox, your words are so very true and thoughtful. Thank you for sharing this view. I feel the same, but could not translate it without it sounding like I have a bad attitude….maybe a slightly bent spirit, but not a bad attitude. I would like this on a bumper sticker: ” The road is littered with would-be superheroes who thought they could do anything because they put their enthusiasm to it.”
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I do quite well and only work overtime when I decide to or need to. I have a positive attitude and have been recognized for such. One of my mottos is, “quitters never win and winners never quit.” I work as long as I need to in order to get the task complete. It’s called being a professional. What’s your excuse?
Above is clear proof of botting attacks.
There ISN’T 200+ readers of this article who would click a vote on it. If there were, they’d also vote almost as many times on other posts.
But there are a handful of sore losers who would bot it.
DePolar, I am afraid Planet is the new face of the bots out there down voting me 200 times while up voting himself. He thinks he speaks for everyone and is part of the crowd that wants to dismiss everything Conservative. The stench from Iowa is pretty bad. Must be all those 48 million chickens they lost from disease and the tainted Cookie Dough dispensed.
I do not cast any likes or dislikes out here. Cast your insults elsewhere, Agent. Or, would you like me to let IJ know?
Agent, don’t be so egotistical to believe that someone would spend that much time out of their day on YOU. No, it’s simple. It’s just that more than 200 people don’t like you or your deplorable opinions.
DePolar, I think we have it narrowed down to Celtica or Insurance is fun since the others continue to maintain their innocence. Of course, we do have to take into account that they are liberals.
Current tally of insults just on this topic:
Confused = 0
Agent = 7
When will you stop trying to pretend that I am the person who insults the most on this blog?
DePolar, are you curious as to who has the worst attitude on this blog? Take a look at all the down votes on us and that will give you a picture of who these dudes are. Let’s see, Captain Planet, insurance is fun, Confused, Celtica, boogereater by bogus name back with moniker change since he was run off before.
This explains a lot about some of the posters I see out here!
Those who thumbed this down must have taken my statement negatively. Probably those who usually choose the wrong attitude. Re-read it in a positive light and then you’ll catch my true meaning.
Whoa, that just about sums up Trump’s presidential campaign.
“Remember: attitude is everything, so choose a good one.”
A good attitude is also a “Can Do” attitude. Employees that show initiative and this trait get promotions and raises.
A friend of mine in the insurance business once told me that if you want to get something done, quoted and put together, give it to the busiest CSR in the office and she will get it done. Give it to the least busiest and they will lag and not get it done. I have found that to be true for many years.
Excite, the ultimate bad attitudes on this blog is 1. UW, 2. actu. Amazing they still have a job since they obviously spew hate with every post.
I pity the fool who has a bad attitude!
-B.A. Baracus
I pity a Progressive with a bad attitude. No sense of right from wrong, no direction in life and a whiner when things don’t go their way.
Please advise what you accomplished by insulting me out of the blue, or at least what you were TRYING to accomplish.
Current score of insults on this topic:
Confused = 0
Agent = 2
I was unaware I mentioned your name at all dude. However, if you took it personally, you have a worse attitude than I thought. Perhaps you have joined Planet in all the down votes, it confirms my suspicions.
You didn’t mention my name, but you did direct your reply to my comment. Don’t reply to a post if you’re not actually replying to the post.
PS – I don’t vote on this site either up nor down, so direct your suspicions towards someone else
I’ve been to meetings/seminars where certain agents or managers were held up/extolled? for their attitudes and business methods. Strange, many of those people were later asked to leave the companies for various reasons…….
I have been to meetings where company executives were extolling the virtues of the company and were later dismissed after they took the company down the wrong road and results were poor.
‘Bad attitudes’ are exemplified by censoring others’ opinions with whom they converse, debate, live, or work.
To bot is to fear the words of those you bot.
DePolar, yes they are running scared now, the agenda has been thoroughly exposed so they go completely off the deep end. I hope a number of them move out of the country as they threatened to do when Trump wins. The Progressive agenda is in complete shambles and they have the leadership to blame for it.
I’m not running away – I just see your continued and predictable insults and avoidance of direct questions. You know, like “what were you expecting to accomplish when you insulted me?” above or “which would you prefer – automated drivers taking all distracted texters off the road or keeping those drivers behind the wheel and not having automated drivers at all?”
I now wait your response and again I bet it will be either (1) to not post on this topic anymore, (2) to tell me I word parse and I was wrong about what you said, (3) keep up with the same insults you’ve used ad nauseam or, (4) find a new batch of insults to throw my way.
Last time you picked #3. I wonder which it’ll be this time. I sincerely hope it’s number 5 though – a non-insulting reply to the questions asked. That would be great.
Get some therapy Confused. The liberal kool aid has ruined your attitude.
I see you chose option 4, not option 5. Oh well. Let’s reset the counter. Current tally of insults just on this topic:
Confused = 0
Agent = 4
Bots are censoring free speech that liberals cannot hide from in public.
Which is the most funniest, yet scariest group of people in the world?
a. Clowns
b. Liberals
c. Journalists
Current tally of insults just on this topic:
Confused = 0
Agent = 5
Shut up! We are sick and tired of your whining.
DePolar, Some of the “clowns” went to Journalism school and were indoctrinated into the liberal agenda and when they got a job in journalism, they could taint their reporting to the leftist side. All one has to do is look at the evidence on any major network. At least 90% of them are totally biased. It is really sad what this nation has become. The Ministry of Information is what they want the public to know. The only bastion of good information is the internet and they want to take that over as well.
Current tally of insults just on this topic:
Confused = 0
Agent = 6
… bot who am I to judge?
Some folks have bad attitudes just by nature. Rarely do they last long. After 43 years in the insurance business, all on the carrier side, I can say that I’ve seen bad attitudes develop because of poor ineffective ego driven management.
Another way workers become discouraged is when executives trumpet “our employees are the most important part of what we do” and “open and honest communication is essential” and they don’t back up the words. They don’t want to know what workers think. Those at the top are told what they want to hear, not the truth.
Workers become drones, just plugging along day after day because they know that they mean nothing. Seen it more than once.
Jadefox, I, too have been in this business a long time. The carrier/agent relationship is not what it used to be. They often put out platitudes about how important the relationship is and then go off in other directions like selling direct over the internet, cut commissions, put out Modeling that doesn’t work and take rate which makes them uncompetitive in the market. Marketing reps just shrug their shoulders and make excuses.
How right you are! I recall a major stock company touting the value of the agency relationship. How it supported the agency system. All the while, placing each in a category and then tailoring the delivery of services according to the category.
The lowest category, called Heritage, received no agency visits from anyone; forget pricing consideration and forget offering any sort of help on an account.
In one case, the agency celebrated 100 years of representing the company and guess what. The resident vice president mailed the 100 year plaque to them! He cited that heritage agents don’t get any visits.
Amazing.
How terrible! The resident VP must be the new age guy and couldn’t miss his mid week golf game, I suppose. Our agency is not that old, but we do have a couple of 25 year plaques and they were hand delivered and on prominent display in our reception area. Customers remark on them all the time and it shows longevity and stability.
Jadefox, Here is a great quote from one of the country’s founding fathers.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson
Now, the people that disagree with this are free to down vote me at least 200 times.
You guys have 46 more down votes to go for the 200 mark. Get with the program Insurance is Fun, Celtica, Planet, Confused.
How bout when your company asks for feedback. You give it honestly and then they wiped their butts with your opinion. And how bout all those pretty paralegals, eh? Coincidence?
A complete history of bad attitudes:
Boss abuses employee,
Employee yells at wife,
Wife beats kid,
Kid kicks dog.
Experience we have had at an agency level is complacency, do just enough to get by. No sense of achievement or appetite for success. Funny how some employees think they are entitled to a raise within six months yet fail to get their license or learn something new in the insurance industry. The biggest problem?..getting to work on time!
Jestr, sounds like you made some poor hires. Complacent employees are just there to collect their paychecks every two weeks. If they don’t care enough to get their education for licensing, they have no business being in the agency. Not getting to work on time is another example of being complacent and not caring about the success of the agency. Reliability is important.
In another article, someone who was a Worker Bee was complaining about their pay. I wonder if that Worker Bee was one of the complacent employees. They also complain about their long work hours. Good employees that know what their duties and responsibilities are get their work done on time and show initiative. They are the best.