Bragging and blowing your own trumpet at work
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Do you toot your own horn?
How do you feel about people who brag and constantly blow their own trumpet? Is there nothing worse than someone who is always first to point out their own special abilities or is it something we should be doing?
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I work with two tooters that spend most of the day reminding me and anyone who will listen about their special abilities. It's a virtual symphony of bragging where I work.
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| 01-5-2008 | Reminds me of someone I worked with. The pinned certificates for every single training course they'd ever been on to the wall behind their desk so that it was almost papered with them. How pretentious is that? | Mark T |
| 01-5-2008 | What about the employee who keeps Thank-You cards from the last 5 years on their noticeboard for everyone to see, or maybe tehy need them as a reminder to themselves of their own self-worth. | Zanny |
| 18-3-2008 | Braggarts are the pits - its my pet hate too and I've had to suffer the "full of himself" boss as well. God I wish the ground would just open up and swallow these idiots that feel the need to blow their own trumpet at every opportunity. Let's start a war! | Jules |
| 31-1-2008 | I don't mind horn tooters when they also recognize other's accomplishments as well. My boss is constantly bragging about how much she has changed the department around but doesn't mention that we did all the work. She brags about work we've done as her own, which everyone hates, and ...more | Annoyed Worker |
| 31-1-2008 | People who toot their own horn are just very insecure. It doesn't matter what your job title is, everyone only sits at the same computers anyway. What matters is the character of the person.
Perhaps they have an identity crisis if they have to confirm their "job title" 20 times pe...more | Wilberforce |
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