Being Polite to get ahead in business and life!

I consider myself a very polite guy. Sometimes too polite for my own good. I get that from my Thai side of the family, where those who are not polite are seen in a bad light-and sometimes out casted. I know this is true for other Asian societies too. The non-polite men and women are the ones that are excluded from the social group.

Politeness is good for business-to a point. While a lot of times my politeness is out of habit-rather then due to the merit of the other party, it made me realize that politeness is bad when dealing with unscrupulous crooks-i.e. most of the early people I met while working on myabuy.com. The shittier ones I will not name here-but if you really want to know send me a comment and I will name names. 

Will my natural politeness help develop myabuy.com. I think it will-although it is tough to be polite to some of the rank jerk offs I have dealt with in the past. One such jerk off is an Indian outsourcing co. that I will not name here (I read in a recent article about the law firm suing a customer that gave them a bad review) whose owner is a grade A crook. He is the type of guy who gives outsourcing a bad name. I hate to generalize but people like him and his company deserve all the shit I plan to give them-all without having to worry about being sued for libel due to maintaining some form of politeness. It takes discipline but my experience dealing with crooks is that pursuing those that cheated you-while maintaining a polite disposition-pisses crooks off even more then just ripping into their guts and calling them all the bad names in the book (even though all are applicable.)

Politeness is hard to maintain and I keep you updated on whether my polite disposition will get me my money back from the crooked Indian outsourcing co. and the POS owner. If not I will burn them all to get the money his co. still owes me. My politeness has its limits after all:)

Best of luck and take care,

Chief-Myabuyer

www.myabuy.com