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If you’re a miserable jerk at your job, but your boss doesn’t see that as a positive trait, it may be time to move on. However, if your discontent isn’t rooted only in the conditions of your employment but your personality, it may be hard finding another job that will make you any happier. For some of us skeptics out there, a workforce of fake smiles and office camaraderie fits the description of a hostile work environment when what we really want is just to be left the hell alone.
However, for one company, being discontent is a good thing – so much so that its CEO won’t hire happy people. If this doesn’t sound like the job of my dreams, I don’t know what is. Daniel Glaser, CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies, which, by the way, is a company valued at $38 BILLION, explained in an interview with the New York Times that he has “a general disdain for people who are too happy and content.” Honestly, I couldn’t agree more.
When he conducts interviews, he asks those hard-to-prepare-for questions, like, “Do you feel content?” or “Are you easily satisfied as a person?” If you answer yes to either of those questions, you can kiss your chances of working at Marsh & McLennan goodbye. However, Glaser actually has some pretty solid reason behind his love of hiring Negative Nancies. In his mind, a discontent with your current situation indicates a drive and a motivation for a better future, to accomplish more, and to not be complacent in your current position – all valuable traits for a workforce. If you value your sarcastic, cynical relationships with others, it may be worth it to drop by with a resume – especially if your officemate Sally hasn’t stopped showing you pictures of her latest cat for the last month. .
[via Business Insider]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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Where do I sign up for an executive role?
This guy stole my idea. This is exactly how I gathered up my Apostles.
If they added alcoholism and self loathing as qualifications, I’d be fucking set right now.
This dude should hire me, he’s be out of a job in 90 days.
I can see you being his right hand man, but you’d constantly be trying to drive the company into the ground in the interest of destroying a piece of the corporate machine.
That’s exactly what I would be doing.
“I see you spent $4 million of our budget on French paperclips and Indonesian beanie babies. Good work, Devin.”
I know I’m late to comment on this, and I hope it doesn’t backfire, but these guys are one of my clients. The people I interact with are super chill
When did simply having discontent for you current situation make you a “negative nancy”? I don’t think “valuing sarcastic, cynical relationships” equates to “drive and motivation”.
Guy is running a $38 billion company. He’s been doing something right.
That’s not what I’m saying. The author used a clickbait title and misconstrued what the CEO is actually doing. The CEO is not hiring miserable assholes; he is hiring people who are not satisfied with their current situations. Those two aren’t the same thing.