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My First Job: I Bought Illegal Cigarettes for City Police

• PhasmaFelis 13y ago
  > Here are a few of the most important lessons I learned: Eschew Tradition...Find Flexibility at Work...Have a Personal Passion for Your Work She missed an important one: "Don't Care About The Little People You're Hurting." I wish I was being sarcastic. Bitter, maybe. Not giving a shit about the real-world consequences of your work (narcing out harried, abused clerks, in this case) is in fact a valuable trait if you want to succeed in business. It's certainly relevant to all our modern success fables: Google and Facebook devastate personal privacy; Amazon treats the warehouse staff, its hardest-working employees, like shit; Microsoft stifles innovation and competition; Apple does too, and their illustrious founder once lied to his best friend to cheat him out of a couple thousand dollars. Be a sociopath and you'll go far.