RECOMMENDATIONS

Sometimes it feels really great to recommend someone. You're excited to. You don't even have to think about it. You just know they're going to be perfect for a task--a real asset--and the opportunity may even change the course of their lives--or at least put a few extra needed dollars in their pockets or purse. Unfortunately, you can't recommend everyone--even as much as you'd like to. Some folk are very good at what they do, but their reputations precede them and their attitudes...well...they suck. It's not long before it's revealed that their contribution to a thing isn't worth the headache everyone involved would have to endure. You can't deny that they're talented, but they're also bossy, arrogant, uncooperative, rude, conceited, strife-loving, gossipy, dishonest, unnecessarily competitive, critical, tactless, pushy, self-centered or just plain batty. They're just not going act right. Maybe they can't help it, don't realize it, or think it's acceptable, CHIC even, but they just don't get it. Lousy behavior casts an awful light on amazing talent. It leaves you feeling a certain kind of way when you're asked about people, and have to muster up every ounce of tact you have, and recall the mantra of every mother in the universe: "If you can't find something good to say, don't say anything at all.". It's kinda sad, especially when you're keenly aware, and eternally grateful that someone took a chance on you--based on a recommendation.