Cut throat and competitive stories
Hey guys, so we hear of pretty crazy, competitive situations in nearly all levels: professional sports, high schools, university, and of course the workplace. There's examples everywhere: whether it's Michael Jordan ruining friendships over a game or the latest Tiger Mom shelling out big bucks for her child to hopefully get admitted to an Ivy League university.
I've heard some cut throat stories in university of students not sharing resumes, keeping GPA's secret, and even threatening (jokingly) to ruin someone's interview. What's the most cut throat/competitive story that you've heard or experienced either in recruiting, the work place, or even life in general?
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When that chick hired a hit-man to take a whack at Nancy Kerrigan's knees
Tonya Harding remains, to this day, one of only four of five women to ever be able to land a triple axle. Pretty crazy that she felt she needed to take out an opponent, but I respect her tenacity.
//sorry, my brother was a skater so i basically grew up in ice rinks//
Dude...kill yourself
sorry.. i don't get what you mean by that..
Left the toilet seat up each time I was done with my business.
At my BB S&T internship this summer it was pretty funny how the hyper-competitive interns were the ones that went around pretending to be super close to everyone but secretly were trying to get a leg up on them. Acts of sabotage included not telling each other when someone made a mistake in one of the presentations we had because it would reflect better on themselves if someone else made a mistake (as if the internship was a zero sum game). I just gave honest reviews when people asked me to look over their presentations and didn't try to act fake with the people I disliked.
We had this huge leadership class with a curved grading system. It was notorious for being one of those classes where everyone sabotages for everyone else (giving out false class notes, wrong answers, strategically dumping people in the last minute of group problems, etc.), in hope of driving down the over-all grades, and thus giving themselves an easy 'A'. The Engineering students were chill. Law-students were by far the worst...but I guess that goes with their field.
(To be honest though, I can't f**king stand the hyper-competitive "It's not enough to succeed, others must fail" personalities that you see in some people here. Never know what ulterior motives they have, and they sure create a toxic environment around them)
She likely just thought you were trying to give her a dose of vitamin d.
Totally, because OCR is code word for anal.
I'm in the middle of pulling one of those myself. We've got one person in our class that I really do not trust. The person in question appears to be an aggressive social climber, and I know they're not trustworthy because I've caught them taking credit for other's work, subtle "brag putdowns", and other telltale signs.
Fortunately this person seems to have lost their touch because a lot of other people see it too. I'm working to slowly massage their ego until they can be coaxed into doing something stupid....and I kinda feel bad,but I really don't because the school is going to be a better place once this person's influence has been purged.
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
I saw a guy i know applying for a IB outside class, i told him I interviewed with the bank a year prior, hoping to give him an insight and help him. He stopped talking/looking at me the moment the words left my mouth. Pretty awkward class.
I go to a notoriously competitive university and there are stories about how years ago if you were in the library and you went to the bathroom, (leaving your notebooks behind) people would rip your notes out of your notebook in order to ensure you performed poorly on an upcoming test. This was all done to lower the grading curve. Talk about cut throat...
They weren't worried someone would beat the living sh!t out of them if caught?
I had an internship with just me and another intern. It was a school-year internship and he had an earlier shift than I did but we overlapped for a few hours. He would get most of his stuff done in the morning, and then when I came in he would not stop talking to me to try to get me distracted.
A guy in my office had his reputation destroyed by a colleague, to the point he had to leave the organization...
So he (allegedly) hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on said colleague, and proceeded to leak all of the nasty secrets he found out to all kinds of important people (IRS, wife, workplace); life = ruined.
For the Machiavellian types here (of which I'm sure there are many): if you're going to seek revenge, make sure when you're done the person on the receiving end has no way to retaliate.
Have a story of my own from high school.
We had this fishing game in economics class where you could fish in the deep water or shallow water. Deep water fish were worth more, but reproduced slower than their more plentiful shallow water counterparts.
Every group was overfishing the deep water and the deep water fish were experiencing a major population decline so I convinced the other "captains" to fish shallow water for 3 rounds.
In the second round, my group went deep water and annihilated everyone else.
No tears were shed for the boats serving guppies when we had that sweet, sweet tuna.
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when the CFA gives you a multiple choice question, and there are more wrong answers than right answers. Then they wanna charge you for taking their test. Did I mention you gotta buy their book with it. Also, dont forget the guides from 3rd parties, companies which i am positive are colluding with each other.
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't there supposed to be more wrong answers than right answers on a multiple choice question/test?
That's the whole point of an MCQ exam. It's an exam for a respected accreditation. It's not easy for a quite obvious reason.
After seriously disrespecting the entire finance club, a kid at my school checked his linkedin the next day to discover that it had been hacked. He had a bazzillion new linkedin connections, and had been endorsed 99+ times for "flipcup".
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Let me guess, he has been unemployed ever since.
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