Sentences with word «jerked»

As a result, and because of the Bullwhip Effect, growth in developing economies is going to be jerked around more than people think, making for a good deal of cyclical economic contagion.
However, we have been getting jerked around by the SBA for nearly 9 months now and we are at a point where we may have to cut our losses if we can not secure the remainder of necessary funding in the very near future.
Tariffs «really jerked the rug out from under us at a critical time in our growth.»
At the last possible moment, Vogt jerked the steering wheel and narrowly avoided a certain crash.
There's nothing wrong with a little office scuttlebutt — so long as you're not a jerk about it.
Like if you think Pat is a great person, when Pat acts great, you think «Pat sure is great» and when Pat acts like a jerk you think «That's odd, Pat is normally great but just acted like a jerk.
At lunch, workers sample the meals that are delivered to the children — the jerk chicken is particularly popular — so they get to taste the difference the company's work has in lunchrooms and, tacitly, understand how their roles make it happen.
Maybe, at the very least, my friend would have thought, «I'm having chest pains... and if that scrawny little jerk can have a heart attack, maybe that is happening to me.
That's why hiring is so important: You don't simply want a bunch of «brilliant jerks,» as Netflix CEO Reed Hastings calls them.
And it's not because I'm trying to be a jerk.
«So he, you know, he's famous for being a bit of a jerk from time to time, and I think that was part of the package deal.
We yank our hands away from hot stoves, leap in panicked jerks out of the path of on - coming traffic as the freak - out motorist careens wildly through traffic to avoid us.
We've all seen those tear - jerking Tim Hortons ads where Canadians look to the iconic coffee chain to feel at home.
«If you're within 25 feet of a toxic person, the odds that you're going to get fired or become a jerk yourself go up substantially.
Well, Pat's still a jerk despite this odd anomaly» when Pat acted great.
I was training at the gym last week and was doing my second - to - last set of clean and jerks when I felt a small twinge in my leg.
Maybe you some of your coworkers are jerks.
Does your boss ever act like a jerk one day, and nice the next?
While modeling traffic patterns, they stumbled on a truth drivers can put to use today: If we all stopped tailgating like a bunch of jerks, we'd all get where we're going much faster.
The easy, knee - jerk alternative (banning phones) demoralizes good employees who need to check their phones periodically due to pressing family or health issues or as an appropriate break from work.
An algorithm can't tell you the CEO is a total jerk and you shouldn't work with him.
The knee - jerk response of some to that might be «Good!
(It's not, however, a license to be a jerk.
It's not that the moderator is trying to be a jerk.
The massive gap between the haves and have - nots also doesn't discourage the formation of jerk - like tendencies, according to Sutton: «The research says that when we're in those situations [i.e. large imbalances in power and wealth], there's envy going up, and sort of disdain goes down,» he notes.
There was nothing wrong with this person — he wasn't a letdown or a jerk or anything — but became clear that he wasn't a cultural fit.
Every day another jerk emerges as the latest poster boy of ego and entitlement, someone who can't figure out how to keep his hands to himself and / or his ugly mouth shut.
You can recognize jerks but the definition is hard to put into words.
Sorry to be a buzzkill here, but yes, you are gonna work for some soul - sucking jerk.
Perhaps the rest of us need to reconsider why we find it normal for bosses to be jerks
Following this advice will not only prevent you from coming off like a jerk, but actually make you memorable.
Layoffs should be a last resort, he says, not a knee - jerk reaction.
Finally, he asked if I would take a call, and I said, I have to get this jerk off my back.
They were all no - good, lazy jerks who were trying to put him out of business.
A nice guy in the lobby may not be a nice guy on the job, but a jerk in the lobby will always be a jerk on the job.
If these tells make you think you've grown into the role of workplace bad guy inadvertently — that is, you weren't born a jerk, and you don't want to die one — all is not lost.
But if you find yourself in a place where you can't avoid butting heads, at a minimum: Don't be a jerk.
If you're a jerk, with money you're a bigger jerk.
Note: If you know you're going to speak in front of a heckle - ready crowd (at, say, the International Association of Jerks and Punks convention), you will undoubtedly be part of the 20 percent.
For instance, Robbins and Finley suggest various approaches for dealing with a «team jerk» (that is, a crew member with essential knowledge but no social skills), including ways to gently ease the offending party elsewhere: «Set him apart from the core team, as a valued resource member... Give him an office in a separate building, or on a separate continent, even.
We often have knee jerk reactions when we're outside our comfort zone: to fight, to run, to shut down.
Dr. Gary Namie, president of workplace - bullying consulting firm Work Doctor and co-author of the new book The Bully - Free Workplace: Stop Jerks, Snakes, Weasels, and Snakes from Killing Your Organization, says there are three workplace trends that should make you wonder whether you're terrorizing your staff.
He had the same band for 40 years despite jerks in suits telling him to go solo.
«If you're a slacker or a jerk, HR should be the department advocating for you to be «transitioned out» of the organization,» writes Lucas.
If you haven't picked it up yet, it's well worth a read in full and is packed with examples of how our knee - jerk decision - making machinery can lead us astray, as well as techniques to short - circuit bias.
While she was taught to cook dishes such as jerk chicken and pork, rice and peas, oxtail gravy, and fried plantains, many folks online were not happy with the celeb's food snaps.
Hiring jerks, in other words, is hugely costly.
Recently on the TED Ideas blog Anthony Tjan, author of Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters and CEO of VC firm Cue Ball Group, talks to Julia Fawal and shares his favorite techniques for screening out jerks during job interviews, including these three questions:
He turned out to be a jerk who just wanted to do big projects and have a big expense account.
Some lawmakers have already called for new regulations and congressional action since the shooting, while others have said there shouldn't be a «knee - jerk» reaction to the violence.
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