crab mentality

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LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 5 Nov 18

One of my tenants shared a pics of a message wrongly sent by one of her customers. Who happens to be one of her re-sellers. They buy her product and then it gets resold to some one else. Sadly, turns out this customer of hers...

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Some may not Like Where a Person is Going

Teep11 @Teep11 (7673) • United States 31 Jan 17

There will always be individuals who are full of the crab mentality. Not wanting others to get ahead. Becoming angry when there's some "progress." Not even considering everyone can at least try to move ahead. Of course the...

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advancement

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Have you experienced having an office mate that always talks behind your back?

Rairaianne14 @rairaianne14 (336) • Canada 7 Sep 16

Well I don't know if you experience this kind of people. People whom talks behind your back when your'e not in the office. And those people who you taught is a friend then suddenly when they are promoted or got a chance to be...

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Let the Crab out First :)

Teep11 @Teep11 (7673) • United States 14 Jun 16

Have you ever seen a bucket of crabs? There's always one crab trying to get out of the bucket but the other crabs keep tugging and pulling the one crab down. That one crab keeps trying and trying. The other crabs are persistent as...

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helping others

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Crab mentality another disgusting attitude of Human-being.

meumeu25 @meumeu25 (913) • United Arab Emirates 11 Oct 12

Crab mentality basically refers to the mentality of humans who are envious, selfish, and who have an agenda of making theirselves be on the top or look good in the eyes of others by pulling down the ones on the top or other people...

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Crab mentality, destroying one person to keep them down

blinjk @blinjk (617) • United States 15 Sep 12

Envy and jealousy is the most common reason why people destroy other people just to pull him down.You will see this people anywhere and everywhere you go.They make life really challenging and will put you in a test.Maybe life for...

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crab mentality...a filipino way of thinking?

akatsukipein @akatsukipein (70) • Philippines 27 Aug 12

i just wandering if the idea of crab mentality belong to us filipinos and still present in our society today? why do i say that because i experience it, in my own aunt (which i hated very much!). she is not happy on what we have...

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…I’m not a crab

jeanneyvonne @jeanneyvonne (5500) • Philippines 28 Jun 12

I am referring to the Filipino quality called crab mentality. Literally, it means utak talangka. For foreigners who wish to join this discussion, crab mentality is a mentality where a person is ‘bringing down’ or insulting another...

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how can you manage people who had a really bad attitude?

alquizar @alquizar (480) • Philippines 12 Nov 11

How can you manage people who had a really bad attitude?I really do hate people who always make trouble.Many people complained about it and they can't really change their attitude.If you are in such situation how can you manage to...

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insecurities

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work attitudes

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why others dont want to see you to be successful?

airasheila @airasheila (5454) • Philippines 7 Jul 11

I was just surprised when my bestfriend told me that they cannot place anymore an item for sale inside the compound of the cooperative. And the bottomline with this, they were not formally notified. With reference to the...

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fellow

progress

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Crab-Mentality ..

Arnel_24 @Arnel_24 (155) • Philippines 4 Jul 11

Why is there many people has this kind of attitude? They are really working to make you destroyed! On your job, studies.

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What do you think about people who has crab mentality?

staria @staria (2780) • Philippines 9 Feb 11

Well, I have a Filipino boss but we have a boss who is a foreigner. Before, I can go straight to my foreigner boss and tell him whatever I want to say. Now my supervisor would not want me to go straight to him and would have me...

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What Are We Going To Do For Those People That Have "Crab Mentality"?

Secret @IntrovertShy (2780) • Marikina, Philippines 4 Jan 11

For all those Filipino people, is there any solution for a "crab mentality"? I am not offending anyone, but it seems that most people here in the Philippines have this "crab mentality" behavior. When Filipino created the first 3d...

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philippines

rpg metanoia

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Crab Mentality

Bluerain25 @Bluerain25 (812) • Philippines 6 Aug 10

Crab Mentality is defined in wikipedia as "sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket, describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, Neither should you". the metaphor refers to a pots of crabs....

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jealous people

adeena2000 @adeena2000 (845) • Philippines 17 May 10

Our neighbor seems don't appreciate us if we got a blessing, even how we share to them what we have. They didn't get seem enough. They will still backbite like making up stories against us; seems like a crab mentality. They did...

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Crab Mentality : Why do some people cannot get away with it?

Curlann @annierose (21977) • United States 8 May 10

Tomorrow will be the election day here in the Philippines and I think everybody is excited to vote.Everyone has their new hope of having a president that will have the ability to make a change in our country. I just notice with...

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trying to put people down

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Crab Mentality

pjsr18 @pjsr18 (340) • Philippines 11 Sep 09

Some people really have this crab mentality to pull down a person who is superior to them. I just want to share this experience of mine. I have a friend, I treated her as my best friend because she teaches me stuffs about html and...

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Let us Not Practice Crab Mentality Online!Let Us Help Each Other!!

rberon1985 @rberon1985 (5359) • Philippines 26 Jul 09

Can you try to imagine those crabs coming from the water, going up and wants to be at the stone. Other crabs pushes others so that they will fall again in the water. In relation to us people,all of us wants to earn online and...

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help

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to graduate or not to graduate, that is the question at hand. . .

beautiful58 @beautiful58 (16) • Philippines 30 Mar 09

It's graduation time here in the Philippines and I guess to most parts of the world. I am supposed to be one among the parents eager and proud to see their children graduate in college, but, for some reason or another, it seems...

Crab Mentalists, I just hate them!

manixxx @manixxx (116) • Japan 29 Jan 09

Crab Mentality describes as a way of thinking in which an individual is jealous to someone who have that he/she doesn't have. just like the phrase "if i can't have it, neither can you". i just hate them! grrrrrrrrrrrr! they are so...

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only hope

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