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Inertia |
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For all "intensive" purposes... |
| Date Posted: |
01/05/2006 |
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....but that's exactly what I'm currently doing. I quit Hewitt the first time around in 2000 as a knee-jerk reaction, and it was the stupidest thing I've ever done - only because I ended up working someplace far worse than Hewitt (if you can believe that). After I fled that place, I ended up at Exult, which at the time was still a worse place to work than Hewitt, but it was better than my previous job, so I stuck it out.
Years later, Hewitt acquires us, and I'm back. So, even though things have significantly changed at Hewitt (it's far nastier than it used to be), I'm trying to be smarter about leaving (at least a bit more strategic about how and when I leave). So, what you're doing makes perfect sense; I definitely wouldn't call it inertia. Besides, executive leadership wants us to leave in a blind rage, where we end up cutting off our noses despite our faces. I'd rather stick around to spite them a little longer. |
| Message: |
...you have misused that saying.
One cuts their nose off "to spite" their face, not "despite their face". The difference is significant.
I'm not being nasty, but that's one people will mock you for if you used it in a meeting.
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