your biggest character flaw?

server down · 11-10-2017 09:01PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I will hammer myself over the 1% of a job or problem in work that I couldn't figure out and not for a second praise myself for the excellent job of getting 99% of it right. Even when other people tell me how much I have helped and how useful I am, I am tormented by the 1% that got away...

I’ll take note of this answer for when this question is asked in an interview

Harry Palmr · 11-10-2017 09:03PM

I need a looming deadline or I do nothing, funny thing is that up against the clock I'm very good. I'm a bit too easy going until the moment I snap. At work I need someone with me or standing over me to be at full production.

Widdershins · 11-10-2017 09:11PM

Wracking my brains here but no, sorry, I have no flaws....

Snotty · 11-10-2017 09:13PM

I'm a weird combination of socially awkward and couldn't give a crap what anyone thinks of me. The awkwardness is since birth, the latter took me a long number of years to work out, I used to constantly worry what people though of me but then I realised that it got me nowhere, so **** them all. There is a large number of people who dislike me, but it stemed from their own issues, so I don't care.

My job forces me to be the bad guy in many situations so it's a role I have embraced and probably allowed me to be a happier person.

Ulysses Gaze · 11-10-2017 09:21PM

It takes me a long time to learn things. I'm kind of a goof off....

The_Honeybadger · 11-10-2017 09:25PM

Lazy, I cannot get properly going in work unless there is a crisis or looming deadline, at which point I can get through incredible amounts of work. I rarely miss a deadline though, and have a reputation as a Trojan worker. In truth I’d have a really handy and interesting job if I didn’t make it so hard by procrastinating and creating a mini s**tstorm for myself every month.

I used to also be very shy and suffered with social anxiety until a promotion at work forced me into regular public speaking. I actually considered quitting because I used to work myself up so much, but bit by bit my anxiety wore off and I now actually enjoy events and speaking in public.

The_Honeybadger · 11-10-2017 09:27PM

Lazy, I cannot get properly going in work unless there is a crisis or looming deadline, at which point I can get through incredible amounts of work. I rarely miss a deadline though, and have a reputation as a Trojan worker. In truth I’d have a really handy and interesting job if I didn’t make it so hard by procrastinating and creating a mini s**tstorm for myself every month.

I used to also be very shy and suffered with social anxiety until a promotion at work forced me into regular public speaking. I actually considered quitting because I used to work myself up so much, but bit by bit my anxiety wore off and I now actually enjoy events and speaking in public.

Summer wind · 11-10-2017 09:30PM

I'm waaay too honest. I've no time for bull****. Life's too short.

11-10-2017 09:41PM

I probably need to be more assertive and have a bit more belief in my self. The title of this thread made me think of this though

LirW · 11-10-2017 09:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I probably need to be more assertive and have a bit more belief in my self. The title of this thread made me think of this though

No joke, that was very close to an interview I had a while ago because of said problem.

jaxxx · 11-10-2017 09:49PM

Flaws? B*tch please, I'm fabulous.....

This Fat Girl Runs · 11-10-2017 09:50PM

Being alive.

7 Seconds... · 11-10-2017 10:35PM

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

Being alive.

I used to feel the very same way, are you ok?

LadyMacBeth_ · 11-10-2017 11:12PM

I have no patience or willpower. I want everything I like now and all the time until I get bored of it. I used to judge myself very harshly and consider what other people think of me far too much but recently told myself feck that. I am who I am. I'm not perfect but I try my best. That will have to do.

endacl · 11-10-2017 11:14PM

I used to be apathetic, but these days I just can’t be bothered.

11-10-2017 11:27PM

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I have no patience or willpower. I want everything I like now and all the time until I get bored of it. I used to judge myself very harshly and consider what other people think of me far too much but recently told myself feck that. I am who I am. I'm not perfect but I try my best. That will have to do.

You're a work in progress

I'm the very opposite and it made me realize something a little harsh about myself. I've got a lot of patience, and pretty iron willpower. I don't have a lot of talents but when I need to knuckle down and get something done I'm quite resolute.

It's one of my better characteristics, but it leads to a sort of lack of understanding of people who have trouble with it, and I used to judge people pretty harshly for it. I'm the first to admit now that it was unfair, but it's only in the last few years I'm really aware of that unpleasant trait, and I make a conscious effort to be more tolerant now. I'm only a work in progress too.

Hector Bellend · 11-10-2017 11:30PM

I like ****.

I'm also a fattie with a serious gambling and drink problem.

Kamu · 11-10-2017 11:32PM

I'm far too placid; I've no issue with debating something and anything with anyone, given I have some knowledge/experience of the topic, however, if the debate turns into an argument I leave it alone.

I suppose I am non-confrontational.

MadDog76 · 11-10-2017 11:32PM

Violent temper.

Tom Mann Centuria · 11-10-2017 11:37PM

I dwell on things for ever pretty much, minute things, always negative, or where I've got embarrassed that most people would have long forgotten.

11-10-2017 11:44PM

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

I dwell on things for ever pretty much, minute things, always negative, or where I've got embarrassed that most people would have long forgotten.

Overthinking is a curse.

Phoenix Wright · 11-10-2017 11:45PM

My biggest flaw? Despite my best efforts to appear in a positive light to others, I am human just like everyone else on this thread. At times I can be aggressive, inconsiderate, lazy, shy, anxious, cynical or arrogant, but I will always try my best to improve and be a better person.

pauliebdub · 11-10-2017 11:51PM

A bit of a yes person, I really should be a bit more selfish and not be a soft touch with people.

I'm also a bit goofy - it means I'm rarely taken seriously especially at work.

Bambi985 · 12-10-2017 12:11AM

Probably lacking in confidence in a general sense.

I put up a good front and find it easy to fake it, am pretty outspoken and adept at public speaking because of my work. But deep down I care far too much about what other people think, often don't believe in myself enough to make a decision without getting it validated by someone else and constantly compare myself to others.

Surreptitious · 12-10-2017 12:13AM

Hector Bellend wrote: »

I like ****.

I'm also a fattie with a serious gambling and drink problem.

PM sent.

5ive · 12-10-2017 12:22AM

Common problem it seems....overthinking myself into panic attacks; and also assuming no one would want to bother with/talk to me so I ignore them to spare their discomfort and undoubtedly end up looking like a ignorant cnut....... *sigh*

maryishere · 12-10-2017 01:06AM

The other day while on normal lunch break in Dublin, I was quite rude to a persistent beggar who was a foreign national. Had second thoughts about it later. Perhaps that person had gone through hell to get to Ireland, and if I had been born in a third world country I could be in their shoes. Hard to know peoples full circumstances.

redshoes15 · 12-10-2017 01:33AM

I’m a control freak who gets anxious if I don’t have control on things. I’m an over thinker, a perfectionist and am very impatient. I get an idea into my head and I run like Bolt with it. Can be annoying particularly in a working environment. Find myself staying back long after everyone has gone home finishing something that I need not have started. Not a soul in the real world is aware of any of this. I’m also exceptionally private.

RubyGlee · 12-10-2017 01:42AM

I have too much empathy

hullaballoo · 12-10-2017 02:29PM

It's anxiety that causes over-thinking, not the other way around.

I think everyone gets anxious from time-to-time but there are those of us for whom it's an almost constant state of being:

your biggest character flaw?

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