The Asshole Survival Guide

How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt

By: Robert I. Sutton

Narrated by: Robert I. Sutton

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

The New York Times best-selling author of The No Asshole Rule reads his guide on how to preserve civility, sanity, and success when facing a business world full of difficult people.

Since The No Asshole Rule became a national best seller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has been asked, in a thousand different ways, the best way to deal with an asshole. This new guide presents Sutton's signature prescriptive advice for everyone who is feeling oppressed, demeaned, or disrespected by people who treat them badly.

Drawing on a trove of real-life stories from people dealing with implacable jerks in every kind of setting, Sutton delivers a highly effective, methodical game plan, starting with a diagnosis: Exactly what kind of asshole are you dealing with? From there Sutton provides thoughtful, field-tested strategies aimed at specific asshole-deflecting goals - avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, and countering their negative influence. He even teaches you how to look inward to stifle your own jackass.

Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide helps you develop a robust new outlook that can preserve the sanity of your workplace and personal life and stop all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.

©2017 Robert I. Sutton (P)2017 S&S Audio

saved my life

read this at just the right time to take control back. thank you very much

A Practical Guide for Everyone

This book will help you identify asshole behavior in yourself and others, and it will give you response strategies and wisdom about when and how to use them. Some of this is obvious, but systematic thought about what does and does not work is extremely useful.

Good Book!

A nice short book that goes over ways to deal with the worst people in your life. Thankfully, I don't have any real a**holes in mine, but it has great advice for those times you have conflicts with others and, maybe more importantly, at the end of the book it goes over ways to look at your own behavior and make corrections if you're the a**hole. Would recommend this book!

Sort of a Misleading Title

The story was reasonable, but the title is stronger than the actual story (writing a of anecdotal evidence). The authors positions were well founded in HR practices, but yielded more towards reflection and maybe the readers self-blame? Maybe I'm the asshole, I'm sure that's been true of most from time to time, but some examples in the story were of extreme assholes and no particular example seemed to really work. I think it's unfortunate that this is even a thing, but know that it is. I suppose the let down here for me was the lack of a revelation, I've hit on some great reads that either opened my eyes or taught me something new. With that being said and not wanting to sound bad; measure your expectations.

I love the info in this book!

I love his straight-forward approach to defective co-workers, customers & bosses. I like his suggested questions to ask yourself to help deal with bad people. The only part that bothered me was his poor pronunciation of words that start with "es" and he says "ex" - a bit sad for someone who works with words all day. But overall the book is valuable, at helping people deal with really bad bosses, especially when escape is impossible. I also love the use of coding used to warn co-workers when the boss is in a bad mood, or a bad customer is headed their way.

Try a New Narrator

I understand that an author might want to be the one to read the audiobook -- or that the publisher might think this is a plus. But there are times, like here, where it would greatly enhance the book if a professional narrator read it. I have tried multiple times to listen to this -- it's a great subject, and the content seems interesting. But I can't do it.

A must read for everyone

As an asshole survivor Bob outlined in his first book a different way of running a business, an office, an organization. This book skillfully take you through the next step - how to handle them, and, more importantly, be aware that we can all be one (he even lists the high risk situations and triggers). He did a spectacular job with the audio and I can't wait for his next book.

great food for thought

loved it. Allowed me to relate to my true life situations. Found myself rewinding a lot to get "it". Very well enunciated.

Great sanity check for those being tortured

I wish I had discovered this book earlier when I was at my last job with a psychopath boss who no one would stand up to. It's a practical guide with real, useful advice and helps you put the situation in perspective and re-examine your own unhelpful thought patterns. It's the friend you wish you had when you're being tortured by jerks at work!

Good

Good. Learned a lot. Good sense of humor and examples. Jumped to the end chapters though. Too many stories not needed as I heard similar with his other book.