Some regular readers of legalweek.com will be familiar with some of my contributions to Career Clinic.
Some of you may think I am blunt and cut-throat and not ‘nice’. Yet the workplace is not a ‘nice’ place – harden up, softies! Who gives a toss whether you are nice or not? As long as you perform, that’s all that matters. Performance – and not how nice you are – is rewarded by respect. If anything, being nice is a sign of weakness. With that out of the way, let’s turn to the subject matter of this blog entry: misguided trainees.
