Do people who take the high road

always get screwed in the end or as their going along? What if this is at work? Is silence the best answer?

of when I read "Do people who take the high road always get screwed" was M.K. Gandhi. :shrug:

Good luck.

it's the sleazy bad boy who gets the girl. :)

I can't really tell what you're asking in this post, but as far as work goes I've found that when in doubt, the best course is always to keep my head down and my mouth shut and do my job (and only my job) exactly in the manner I was hired to do it. Is that applicable at all?

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. -- Lois McMaster Bujold

amen to that. I've never heard that quote before...wow...I love it.

answers..

But don't hesitate to defend yourself and call them on their bullshit.

I have been there and I know from experience that no matter how totally psycho your colleague, failure to defend yourself will make you look bad.

own ass so you won't get screwed. Watch, listen and learn.... quietly.
Don't tell everyone everything you know. Let the truth will out because
it always will.
:thumbsup:

I'll be in Scotland afore ye.

Redstone

The highroad for me, along with this good advice will be, watch, listen and be silent. And Trust no one.

...just make sure you let other people know you're taking the high road because there's no point in taking it if no one else notices. ;)

Best of both worlds

;)

The absence of settling personal beefs by well-regulated combat has ruined Western Civilization.

Reputed to be a quote from a man we hold in my family to be a distant relative: Robert Roy MacGregor.

is something you do for yourself and know your better because of it.

If you're taking the high road for the sheer sake of comforting yourself that you're the better person, in the long run you lose.

I'm not saying you shouldn't take it, just that you need to have a reason that serves your own purposes. If there is no selfish reason, fuck it. Be the squeaky wheel.

Loch Lomond song lyrics and music are famed throughout the world. It is a true story of two Jacobites captured by the English and due to be hanged at Carlisle. Then the English Lord decides to set free the unmarried man and hang the married man as an example. The idea was that the free man would tell everyone what would happen if they fought for their freedom again. But the Jacobite to be hanged said to the other "you take the high road, and I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye" The meaning of this is that to the Celtic man of Scotland the high road is the road of the living and the low road is the road of those who have passed into the spirit world through death. He believed that he would be with his wife before the free man.

If you take the high road, you will never regret it. If you don't, you will probably feel guilt and regrets somewhere down the line.

:D

and not in a good way! :rofl:

Whether it's over sex or other kind of mutually beneficial things. And if you don't want anything but a paycheck and recognition for a job well-done that puts you at a disadvantage.

If you work with people who are naturally manipulative and are looking at every situation as a way to get something that they don't deserve out of someone the quickest and easiest way they can, and if they are really good at this kind of thing, of course you are going to be at a disadvantage. Unless management is moral, which is a rare occurrence.

I think silence and acceptance are the best answer. Or a new job, but that is rarely feasible.