Adventures of a Corporate Lacky

Types of Ass Kissers

Posted on the February 20th, 2009 under Lessons Learned,Mental Exercise,Others Matters by angelopanares

in any organization, you will in sometime encounter a ass kisser, the goody two shoes who is always so close to the ears of the boss you’d think they were making out. But that is just a over exaggeration. In this post, I will try to classify, categorize or stereotype the kinds of ass kissers.
First of all, I will be so blunt with this post that I might sound obnoxious, but, let’s just consider this a mental exercise and lets try to figure out how to uncover what kind of ass kisser you have and how do we deal with it.

1.) Focused Ass Kisser – These type of persons are fully aware that they are kissing ass to achieve a certain object and they are so determined to achieve that goal that they will stop at nothing even to the point of stepping over everyone and ass kiss anyone.

Their are two ways to deal will this type, first, accept it and try to get on the good side of the ass kisser, in other words, kiss their ass also. Second, leave with it and let them be, if you don’t bother them, chances are they will not bother to drag you down.

2.) Compulsive or perennial Ass Kisser – These types are the once to be pitied upon, these types just cant control themselves, it’s like an addiction, they just have to do it.

You can’t do anything about it, so just live with these types of people.

3.) Incompetent Ass Kisser – This type has the more chance of curing themselves, these people do not know they are ass kissing.

You can help them out by pointing the obvious to them and chances are, it will cure them.

4.) Incompetent and Delusional Ass Kisser – I absolutely have no respect for these types and they should not be in the same room with you, this types either do not know they are ass kissing or they do but justify it as pro-active, helpfulness and others. Just the mere fact of justifying something wrong is already way of the board, but to believe that it is good ! you gotta be delusional.

Keep away from these people, they are like a contagious disease, be careful not to be stricken by one.

The purpose of this mental exercise is to point out that you cannot escape from these people, no matter how you evade, you will in one way or another fall into such a situation. The moral of this story is to just live with it, accept the fact that the world needs people like them, the organization you are in needs them to maintain balance, there has to be an illusion of something bad to maintain the illusion that we are good.

For everything is this world is a balance, we have to evolve, so what ever you experience, even as annoying as an ass kisser on door front, treat it as a challenge, accept them and leave them be. This is brings us to my home run point of trusting the upper ups, them people on the top of the food chain ain’t as stupid as all of us think, they are up there for a reason and in time, ass kissers will be found out and left to dry.