Categories of People

I have recently realised that there are some fixed categories of types in which most people fall, and that their behaviour can be predicted from the category they fall in. So I the great will try to create the categories broadly to try and categorize my acquaintances and more importantly MYSELF and try to deduce in which categories they and most importantly I fall, with a view to predicting their & MY behaviour under different circumstances.

Category 1 : Egoistic and selfish, high self esteem. Good talkers with average intelligence, with little morals or emotional empathy : They can motivate people and sway them rather for their own benefit than for others. Unfortunately most people I meet fall under this category with shades in between. When this category of people do something which appears unselfish it should be examined rather carefully for traps and pitfalls.

Category 2 : Egoistic with high self esteem but unselfish and principled, good talkers. They are the friends I want to make, those who will stand by one when the rats desert the sinking ship.

Category 3 : Meek, low self esteem with poor verbal skills and assertivity, What they think or do or morals are does not really matter as they don't often sway people's opinion or get into positions of real power. Such people are easily influenced by others more dominating than them. I like to think that I belong to category 2 rather than 3 although my verbal skills are pretty poor and self esteem sometimes lower than it should be. These are the 3 categories of people mainly though they are shades in between.

Failure

It's a well known saying that the real character of a person comes out only when he is faced with failure. So today after the failure it was pretty interesting to see the reactions of the people around me. RoTi is a lucky guy! His system worked just in the nick of time & he got bouquets for it. ASS behaved as if his involvement is minimal. Talk of rats deserting a sinking ship! Even the great Dad himself did not come down to witness the episode after his previous brush with failure he is now wiser and prefers to stay far far away from all these taints in his pretty ivory tower. I felt sorry for Puppy as he had worked the hardest for this and now might be made a scapegoat for the failure. I sometimes feel mad at SOB for being such a cold, polite and emotionless boss. At least sometimes you have got to get strung up about something and at least 'SAY SOMETHING'. But he prefers cold cuts to hot words, which is pretty OK most of the time but how good a leader does that make him. Pretty wimpy I should say, not in the least motivating for the team. Its rather demoralizing than anything. I am not in the know of office gossip but I bet its's discussed pretty threadbare in some circles. I was upset with Ramu for not doing the things as I had directed him to earlier, later I felt I should have let it go, anyway I was feeling rather bitter about it & wanted to vent out some feeling after the event. How beautiful the view was from the terrace of the building! Mole was enjoying it by himself when we all barged into his domain. Being the totally positive guy that he is he ordered tea for us all! This is God's revenge on me for wanting a cold, proper & emotionless boss after Tasi. I don't like Sob at all sometimes due to this, but I guess the scale evens out somewhat when I compare Tasi with Sob.