Jobs, Job Cultures, and Personalities

Bully on the Job

2011-04-14T10:50:00.000-07:00

Excuses or Always Right on the Job

2011-04-13T12:31:00.000-07:00

Self Centered on the Job

2011-04-12T10:45:00.000-07:00

Deceivers Liars on the Job

2011-04-10T21:04:00.000-07:00

Overly Patient on the Job

2011-04-07T09:43:00.000-07:00

Manic on the Job

2011-04-06T10:50:00.000-07:00

Smarty Pants on the Job

2011-04-05T11:31:00.000-07:00

Love on the Job

2011-04-04T08:57:00.000-07:00

Worry Wortes on the Job

2011-04-01T10:36:00.000-07:00

Nurds on the Job

2011-03-30T11:10:00.000-07:00

Individuals, Jobs, Cities, Nations, the world, they all have personalities.

2011-03-29T11:47:00.000-07:00

Here is where the fun begins. Where the rubber meets the road. No personality is inherently evil unless it hurts self and or others. Basically a group, full of the 'near the same' personalities, will interact a lot like those very people. A group of different personalities will act like a consensus of those in it. The consensus of their Ant and Bee types take over the job of perception, their Macho and Cuddle types the feelings or values job etc. Which group, among several groups, that is the strongest will usually rule. The leader of that group is the one who the others are willing to listen to, which means the leader has to say what they want to hear. One group can then influence other groups to act as their widgets act. Thus lots of groups start to take on a single personality.

Cities have personalities. Not every one in the group or city will agree with what is being said and done but then an individual does not always agree with him or herself.

Nations have personalities. What ever shapes the individuals, groups, and states will have influences on them as a whole. Fades usually originate with the largest group in the USA, New York and California and head to the lesser and lesser in number going down the coast and up the coast and then to the mid sections.

International personalities exist. We have different groups of people who tend to have a lot of tensions. But we will not get into this at this time. Will leave that for another blog. We are interested in Job Personalities and how the different groups influence each other with individuals, rules and regs, and different groups and situations etc. Dear me, there I go on a tangent.

The role of Mr. Do and Dragon

2011-03-28T11:41:00.000-07:00

Mr. Do and Dragon rearrange and give importance to different widgets to meet their own goals. It is very similar to little boys playing armies and little girls dolls. Different roles and strengths are given to them to meet the needs of the fantasy they are playing.

Yes, the biological arrangement and strengths of the widgets have a great influence. So does the way they are being raised, the situation, and the rules and regulations, or politics and policies (written politics) of the institutions they interact in. In other wards the personalities, individual and group personalities, that they interact with.

The first job many boys and girls start with, the paperboy, papergirl. Such a simple and innocent job that turns into a nightmare. As a rule of thumb, all jobs are violent. The owners of the establishment want a profit. Fine, but they want the best one they can get. That means they will want to scum off as much as possible and where do they know when to stop. Raccoon will grow larger in his efforts to do so, Dragon will have to defend him. Let's see how that looks. So the paper kid gets very little for his heroic efforts. Then the customers do not pay. They have a beef with the service or the home office. Again, the child has to pay. Neither the home office or the customer is thinking and empathizing with the child who has worked very hard and sincerely for everyone. That is violence, perhaps unintentional but the child feels the blunt anyway.

All the adults involved would have to allow their Mr/Ms Do to allow love and caring into the picture to stop their greed and make the job fair and equitable to the child. Sounds easy but is so hard to do depending on their personalities. Let's look at the problem of different personalities and why they miss the love and caring part.

Jobs and Personalities

2009-11-19T08:46:00.001-08:00

This is a blog about how different job situations can interact with different personalities to create problems. You can read the blog psychotoons.blogspot.com to read more about personalities. So let go on with the jobs ideas.

Jobs have similar power struggles as the family. Any one can create a power struggle by feeling they are right and another should be treated unfairly because of their attitude or inabilities.

Faulty thinking is an inborn tendency to forgive our own short comings because we know why we performed less than acceptable. But the other persons short comings were on purpose or unacceptable because we do not understand then enough to influence them to change.

Also can be politics and greed climbing up the ladder. What ever the reason the power struggles is shown with triangles. There is a Perpetrator or person or group who is being unfair, for what ever reason, to a Victim, the person or group who feels they are unfair. There can be also Rescuer, a person or group who will try and make things fair again. With the family we usually look at the mother, father, and children. On the job it can be fellow workers, bosses, managers, and just about anyone and caused by individuals, groups, policies, or situational setups, you name it and it can be there. This triangle must differ, lets say it is a mom and dad shop, and the third corner is not a kid but a grown male employee. He better not be too close to mom, or dad to the secretary. Now if none of them are related and it is boss, supervisor, and employee. Well there should be a stronger bond between boss and supervisor than and other twosome.

Now if the triangle is a mom and pop shop and the employee is one of their kids, oh dear me, the problems that can arise. Can a person be a loving parent and distance themselves from their kids enough to be a demanding boss without it causing lots of problems, resentments, and the ruin of the loving nurturing family unit? Most fail to remain a happy family or a happy job site.

Eventually I plan to take different jobs and look at some of the inherent built in problems with those jobs. Like everybody else I am not totally predictable, my life is not totally predictable, and I may go in a different direction. Time will tell but I will try my best. Right now I want to go over just personalities that can cause problems on the job, that is after MR Do and Dragon.

Next Post: the role of Mr. Do and Dragon

Normal Personality

2009-09-22T10:29:00.000-07:00

(Please read previous four posts)

Normal Personality

Enough of theory, lets start looking at personalities. The statistical model looks at normal as the average person and other personality types are variations from normal.

The figures at the top show what the pets widgets look like. The widgets are placed on the statistical bell curve. We will make two extremes or a bi-polar extremes. As the widgets are placed at the very left they are saintly, much more than the average person. Those that migrate to the left are the opposite of saintly and so are more devilish.

In general, the upper nature is more saintly and the lower nature more devilish, but not a huge difference in the average person. Our upper natures are more cooperative, loving, and lead to life being sustained. Our lower natures come into play in defense when we are threatened. The survival mode, so to speak. It is less cooperative, less loving, and often leads to the hurt or death of others, or of self if others retaliate back with their survival mode.

The next post will deal with another personality type. I have not settled on which one yet. Have you any requests?

Personality Types

2009-09-20T22:49:00.000-07:00

(See previous three postings)

This is a statistical model of probability. Our biological personalities are formed by chance, the chance of genetics. This chance happening determines if we will have a little or a lot of the traits or abilities or talents of Ant (detailed observation), Bee (puzzles and patterns), Macho (innate fears or anxiety), Cuddles (love and empathy), Geru (the gist or overview of things) , Rabbit (energy), or Turtle (patience).

That gives us a cluster of four basic Biological Personality Types, observers, feelers, thinkers, and doers.

Genetic chance also determines the strength or weakness of our lower nature traits of Spidie (deceiver), Raccoon (greedy), Crow (excuses), and Coyote (stealer). But these types are so influenced by childhood experiences I reserve them for a second cluster of personality types I call Family Personality Types. They vary by how childhood experiences affect the four Biological Personality Types, making them weaker and stronger, and how they affect and allow the Lower Nature Widgets to rule or not.

A third cluster is how Social Factors affect the widgets and interplay with the four Biological Personality Types. Basically it is society permissions to allow certain widgets free reign or not.

A fourth cluster is how our Habits and learned tasks affect the widgets and interplay with the four Biological Personality Types. It is basically how our learned behaviors change us.

You may have figured out that the clusters also reflect the four Biological Personality Types. We have the Bio (what we are born with or whats left after medical problems or accidents), Family (feelings changed by family dynamics), Social (how we socially learn to think about what we can do), and the Habits (how we develop habits and patters by what we do). The interplay of the Biological traits and the other three learned clusters form an infinite variety of personalities.

Seems complicated but don't feel overwhelmed, I will go over it slower and show some of the dynamics and how they shape personalities.

The Widgets of Our Lower Nature

2009-09-02T12:20:00.000-07:00

(See previous three posts for explanation)

Dragon runs our Lower Nature. Dragon has four widgets for the four steps or stages of the brain. Spidie deceives Ant and Bee so we do not perceive correctly.

Raccoon is not fearful or loving but is very greedy. What is his is theirs and what is yours is theirs.

Crow flies around but looks for excuses and justifications. He just does not ever see a big enough picture to forgive or share.

Coyote is the energy, he grabs. steals, and bullies.

In survival mode these five take over and have a party of destruction.

The next post will cover how the widgets vary in each person to create a basic personality type.

The Widgets of Our Upper Nature

2009-09-02T08:22:00.000-07:00

(See previous two posts for background)

The widgets are the little guys or gals that help Mr. Do or Dragon navigate in the world. The brain goes through steps or stages in processing the world. First we have to perceive the world. Ant sees detail and Bee can fly around and see more of the patterns. That takes up the back of the brain and near the ears.

Next we must decide to approach, or love, what we see or fear it and avoid it. Cuddles the loving dog and scarty cat Macho dwell in the middle of the brain.

Next Geru the bird can fly and gather more information and from that plan what to do. That takes the frontal lobes.

Lastly we will go ahead and act on the situation. Mr. Do operates the body but must have energy, so we have Rabbit. But at times Rabbit needs to slow down so Turtle will help out.

This cycle is repeated over and over. If we are Obsessive Compulsive the cycle is very very strong and insistent.

The Next Blog will cover our Lower Nature Widgets

The Key to key ideas.

2009-08-27T10:42:00.000-07:00

(See previous post)

There it is, my key. Don't let it boggle your mind, I will explain it. Our lower nature is our inborn selfish or self centered instincts. Our upper nature is the inborn altruistic or help others, even sacrifice self for others, instincts. Natures ultimate goal is to preserve the species or life in general, so it is survival of the fittest group capable of carrying on life in general. It is not survival of the biggest bully, but survival of the group.

The upper nature is ran by Mr. Do. He is the upper part of the brain that runs our bodies. That is unless Dragon from the lower nature does not rush in from the survival mode. If we are in a dangerous situation the Survival mode is the instinct to save us. First we Freeze and assess the situation, next we will Flight or get out of harms way, if trapped we will Fight, lie, cheat, steal, or even kill to survive. If it is activated or let loose without real danger it can cause lots of unnecessary drama and pain to self and others. Dragon is aggressive and will try to take over. Remember Dragon is selfish.

The Next Post will explain the widgets that help Mr. Do and Dragon.

What It Is About

2009-08-27T10:01:00.000-07:00

This series of blogs is about human nature in general, more specifically how personality works to affect individuals, family, groups, and nations. This particular blog is how jobs and different personalities can affect each other.

I want to make psychology easier for those who have not already slaved over psych books. So I have used cartoons to represent key ideas. A review of these can be found in my web site Psychotoons.blogspot.com. They are not the traditional jargon of past writers but the ideas are still there. I want this endeavor to be fun for me and you. Post comments or questions and I will review them. If you do not want them published please tell me so. The next post is the key to the key concepts. Remember, I will make it simple as it should be for adults and children.

You can press the links on the right to read more about different personalities in general.