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Re:Recommendation Letters Cost Women Jobs by nopassrecover on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @11:18PM (#1892876)
Teamplayer sounds a better description than assertive (euphemism for "hard to get along with")
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Re:Recommendation Letters Cost Women Jobs by sliverstorm on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @11:44PM (#1892927)
'assertive' may be a euphemism, but 'team player' feels like you're scrounging and scraping the bottom of the metaphorical bucket. Not that it's a bad trait.
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