[so] Do Any of You Enjoy/Encourage Being Hard On People?

[Noll]

No...

 

[Lady Lazarus]

Enjoy. As in with a glass of wine...?

Life has not been hard on me, who am I to be hard on life?

 

[Such Irony]

Doesn't appeal to me. There are more gentle ways to successfully motivate people.

 

[Poki]

No, I will. But I don't enjoy it

 

[Jaguar]

If someone is a real cocksucker, yes. Otherwise, no.

 

[RobinSkye]

I would only do it to help better the person or the situation/circumstances. I would NOT do it purely for enjoyment.

 

[EJCC]

I don't think being social-first has anything to do with getting off on demonstrations of your own power.

And no, I don't like being hard on people. I like making sure things are done the right way, and in a perfect world, I wouldn't have to be hard on anyone in order to make that happen.

 

[Coriolis]

I have a student now that someone needs to be hard on. He has a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and is about to do it again. He is finally on the verge of success, and I think that prospect scares him more than would another failure.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I have a student now that someone needs to be hard on. He has a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and is about to do it again. He is finally on the verge of success, and I think that prospect scares him more than would another failure.

I find that it's not unusual for me to benefit from a stern approach, from someone being hard on me. I just have to be sure that they aren't doing so in a malicious way, and they have to truly have my best interests at heart. I don't object to someone taking that kind of approach as long as it isn't an excuse for bullying or manipulation.

I tend to get annoyed with people who try a soft, more diplomatic approach. When it doesn't fly right past my head, I get irritated and wonder why they can't just be more direct. The irritation tends to build as I know that, with such people, I have to be diplomatic back, and I know I can't show them that I'm irritated.

 

[Hitoshi-San]

Under what circumstances? I'm not hard on people or feel the need to continuously put them in their place for the hell of it or to give them the impression that I'm bigger than them or for some other reason. There's better ways of getting other people to respect you.

If I'm debating or discussing a topic with someone and they happen to not be educated whatsoever about it, I'll try to help them understand it further and give them some facts, but if they're just being close-minded and irrational and we're talkin about making me hard on them they're pretty much giving me a heavy dose of Viagra