insults: Don't Ask Me to Step Outside the Lines
- 07/21/15 02:03 AM
How many times has a client or vendor asked you to step outside the lines? Provide them under the table with a resource or service, discount your own services or ask for extra considerations that simply weren't "kosher?" I've written about this for years. I never understood when I was young how or why I had this resistance, reluctance that I came to refer to as I developed my work in ethics over the past thirty years as "The Inner Bottom Line"® that just didn't allow me to not say no or to cross certain boundaries under any circumstance. As I see (35 comments)