Aaron Mentele of Electric Pulp just gave me a quick update about the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE), the 24 item-online test that you can take to determine the different ways that your inner jerk rears its ugly head and if in fact you are — or are at risk of becoming a certified asshole.
Here are Aaron’s numbers: Of the 27,000 ARSE visitors, 22,224 have been unique. 13,313 have taken the
entire test.
There is a lot of self-examination going on out there! And also examination of others — apparently some asshole bosses.
In addition, I have received quite a few emails from people who report that they’ve turned the test around and completed it with co-workers and bosses in mind. I got an amazing email this morning that said:
about your new book The No Asshole Rule. Then we found the ARSE exam and after
my friend took it for one of our VPs he promptly quit (the VP scored 23, no
kidding). Last Friday was my friend’s last day.
As Milan Kundera wrote in
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, no one is listening, they just
wait for the person talking to stop for a breath so they can blurt out, "that’s
just like me, I…." So, that’s just like me, I have an asshole working at my
company. The guy constantly runs good people off. I look forward to your new
book. I’m hoping to apply the part about surviving.
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