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Discussion on: How to Ruin Your Career in 8 Easy Steps

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huncyrus

Extra point:
Be overly friendly and do bad puns and jokes and push your colleagues and bosses where its hurt.

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Personal Story ahead:
One of my boss - and investor and CFO in the startup where I worked - had the family name of "Ferrari". He was a well tailored pretty stereotypical young and rich Italian who work with financial and law.
One day, at a Friday casual grilling party, I asked him, how many people joking around with his name, and do he has a porshe or Ferrari in his garage (he was investor and millionaire).
He went from 0 to batsh*t immediately, and asked, how do I know he does not posses a Ferrari? And I answered simply, because then the key would be at my hand and test drive it to not let catch dust in a parking slot. He wasn't pleased with the answer, and I wasn't his favourite after all.

Funfact: After a couple of years I learned, he failed every single investment and startup what he worked with.
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