Are you an Asshole?

Knowing you people I am guessing that most of you would say, "No, of course I'm not an asshole. You are an asshole for insinuating such a horrible thing." And some of you (Celine) would be right, but I am guessing you all think a little too highly of yourself.

I was reading an article about Asshole bosses and co-workers (in the article they had to say "jerks" because apparently you can't write the word asshole in the mainstream media) and it linked to a site where you can test yourself to determine if you are an asshole. The saying goes that there is one in every office and if you don't know who it is then its probably you.

So I took the test and scored a 2 (where anything over 15 means you are a certified asshole). A good low score that according to the test means "You don’t sound like a certified asshole, unless you are fooling yourself." I don't think I'm fooling myself, of course I work in a small office where everyone is either my direct boss or works directly for me so I don't have any peers to which I might be an asshole. I could be an asshole to my secretary I suppose, but I wouldn't do that so I think my score was right on. I can confidently say that I am not an asshole...at work.

As I was talking the test I kept thinking, of course I wouldn't act like that to people I work with, but to Pushpop...? You're damn straight I would act like that to Pushpop so I took the test again with how I act with my friends in mind.

Now, I am proud to say that the results were not nearly as bad as I thought. Of course I scored much higher with a strong 11 meaning "You sound like a borderline certified asshole, perhaps the time has come to start changing your behavior before it gets worse." It could have been much worse, I assumed that I would be a certified asshole on the retake but apparently I'm not as much of an asshole as I thought. This thing says to change before it gets worse, but it seems to me like I have at least 4 more points until I am a certified asshole so I am good to go.

One that I thought was particularly funny was "You enjoy lobbing "innocent" comments into meetings that serve no purpose other than to humiliate or cause discomfort to the person on the receiving end." Of course you have to substitute "meeting" with "gathering of friends or other social scenario" but you get the point. I think that was the first one that got me and I have to admit that I do enjoy that. That alone probably makes me a certified asshole but according to the test I am ok for now.

There a bunch of asshole things that you would never do at work, but are pretty funny and true when you apply them to your social life. Some are just evil so I don't think I know anyone who could score 100% but it is a possibility... you just never know how evil some of you assholes are. The test is here, lets see how you do.

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