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A YOUR BOSS AINT THINKING ABOUT YOU by Evangeline Udenyi A lot of us spend time trying to impress our bosses in the office for some unknown and unverified reason: that it is what we ought to do to get our jobs done right. If we really think about it, it is just plain rationale to impress who gives you the paycheck at the end of the month and can also authorize a “pink slip” too but the truth is that we are really not the major thoughts in their heads. Pay close attention WORD ALERT! Your boss is not thinking about ganization, their educational background...it does not matter, as a dissatisfied customer can be the end of your career. Some customers can be obnoxious. Others are just financial bullies. For example, a man walks into an investment firm with N2, 000,000 and is pushing it down everybody’s throat when there have been people who have come into the same company with way more than that amount and did not make half as much noise about it. What do you do if you had such a client who has Pay close attention WORD ALERT! Your boss is not thinking about you!!! you!!! The real 'terrorists' that you should worry about are the undercover CIA agents that go by the 'scam' name HR (Human Resources) - plain disguise. They are trained to monitor your behavior and recommend your staying or leaving. So I ask, will it not be wiser to impress these set of people? In spite of the above apparent truth, the most important set of people that deserve your all when it comes to your work are your customers or clients. They play a major part in influencing the activities of whatever organization you work with. Regardless of who the person is, their size, status, how much income they bring to the orJ U N E 2 0 1 4 MeMag | chosen to use your desk as his pedestal to show off his “riches” and to make it worse, he/she is proud and arrogant about it. There are so many difficult people that walk into our organizations everyday but the trick to handling them is called Emotional Intelligence. In simpler terms, understanding a person’s emotional state and using it to your advantage... Let us take the case study above and examine it. 1) It is possible that the client must have worked really hard for that money and that N2, 000,000 is N2, 000,000,000,000 in his eyes. 2) He has probably been defrauded before be- facebook.com/memagazine09 @memagtwits 28