Office politics on Survivor 19 | Russell First Lesson-Samoa ep 1

by Miss. Sunshine on 01/01/10 at 12:10 am

Sur­vivor Samoa-the 19 game in sur­vivors TV show series pre­sented one of the excel­lent player-Russell H. Rus­sell started the game with a blast of actions-lies,multiple alliances and more lies.
because of this unique player we decided to write a cou­ple of arti­cles where we will describe his tac­tics –which he  learned from the daily life-and how to apply them on the office pol­i­tics  game. sev­eral arti­cles will describe the mis­take the other play­ers made when they dealt with Rus­sell. from there mis­take we can learn about Rus­sell nature instead of focus­ing only on him.

So lets begin with episode one and the action’s Rus­sell is doing. by the end of each action we will give out per­sonal think­ing whether its a cons/pros action.

• Rus­sell goes around the island telling lies to all peo­ple about his per­sonal state and his­tory. this action wont help you in the real life. office pol­i­tics requires you to tell the truth about your per­sonal life. you may not tell much, but don’t lie about it. here is a short  table of examples:
  • should i tell i am mar­ried lie to anybody
  • should i tell i am divorced-if you don’t have children-you can lie .if you do don’t lie.
  • should i tell hav­ing  a girl­friend if you want.
  • my own depart­ment or liv­ing at your par­ent home-lie if you want to your friends. don’t lie to financial/salary  department.
  • hav­ing some health care problems-personal or family-lie if you want to your friends. don’t lie to financial/salary  department
  • some died in the fam­ily lie to anybody
  • birth­day date-lie if you want to your friends. don’t lie to financial/salary department

• Rus­sell start mak­ing multi alliances which he calls “his 4 dumb blonds alliance”. very smart move. must be done as many as you can. its called net­work­ing in action.
• Rus­sell begins to sab­o­tage his own camp by emp­ty­ing out the can­teens of water and throw­ing Jaison’s socks in the fire. this kind of act is prob­lem­atic. here is the differences:
  • mak­ing a cus­tomer or prospect angry by not show­ing up to a meet­ing do it.
  • hid­ing a com­puter mouse/cable  from the desk of another employee-allow
  • dis­con­nect the phone cable of another employee desk early in the morning-allow

Remem­ber not to get caught other wise you will look very stupid.

And the last act of this episode was his deci­sion to vote Marisa off. poor Marisa never knew what was com­ing. he approached her ear­lier and tried to make the same stuff he did with the other girls, same talk­ing about secret alliance. but Marisa is not blond. she will not play the same game as the oth­ers. Marisa seemed to be a per­son who speak what on his mind. so she said with polite ges­ture that his promises were told to every­body else  and openly admits to Rus­sell that he makes her feel uncomfortable. 

You see-she only said “uncomfortable”.

Rus­sell is an old  vet­eran in office politics.

“How do you come to me and threaten me and telling me that you feel uncom­fort­able.  Marisa is the dumb­est player I’ve ever seen,” Rus­sell snaps.  “You come up to me and threaten me, you gotta go, and she’s gone,” he decides. 

Marisa didn’t tried to attack him . more like a clar­i­fi­ca­tion. but that was enough from Rus­sell. As  a mas­ter of office survivors,he do what he know to do best.get the threat out!.

Our les­son for Marisa. don’t tell your friends in the office they make you feel “uncomfortable“don’t tell it ever to a man in the face. go behind his back,talk with oth­ers you trust. but never say this to a per­son FACE TO FACE. this will only make him feel offended and he will try to get back at you. sim­ple “office pol­i­tics” or we should we say… MANNERS!.

 

 

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