Quiz Becoming More Assertive

In the lunch line at work someone decides to cut in front of you. How should you react?

Stay silent

Assume they didn't notice you and kindly explain to them that you were in front of them.

Give them the ultimate death stare and accidently run into their shoulder.

Explain to them that you do not appreciate their behavior and they need to move back to where they were.

Your friend has just gone through a tough break-up and needs support, but you're extremely tired and irritable from a long day's work. Your cell phone rings and it's her.

Answer your phone and be her shoulder to lean on no matter how long it takes, because she'd do it for you.

Answer and tell her you can only talk for a little because you're tired, but you genuinely want to hear how she's doing.

Answer and tell her it's about time that she get over it, come on it's been 2 days and you don't feel like dealing with it.

Ignore her call, because you're not feeling well and call her when you have more energy.

You've just planned a trip to visit your family for Christmas next week. The company you work for suddenly gets a new project and wants your help over the vacation because of tight deadlines.

Go on your trip and tell them they can call you if they need your help or advice and then conveniently forget to answer your phone.

Change your plans and go on the trip once the projects over, you don't want the company to suffer.

Go on your trip and tell them they can call you if they need your help or advice and answer the calls every day or two.

Tell them that they will need to get through it without you. You are permitted to take a break, and it's not really your problem.

You're in an argument with a friend; you tend to be most concerned with :

A mutual understanding. In most cases you both have a reasonable point of view so you just need to find a way for each of you to get what you want.

Understand your friends' point of view sometimes their arguments seem reasonable maybe you should just drop it even though you're not really happy.

Ending the argument as quickly as possible even if that means caving to your friend and telling them what they want to hear, even if you don't agree.

Making sure that your position is fully understood. Your point of view makes a lot of sense and should be heard. Listening should go both ways.

Your co-workers are making inappropriate jokes at your expense. What should you do?

Do the same to them.

Tell them you don't appreciate their jokes and make more neutral jokes about yourself to set a different tone. If they don't stop report them to human

Report them and demand they be punished!

Stay silent, because you obviously don't want to worsen the situation.

You are meeting with a group to work on a school project. They show up 30 minutes late. What should you do?

Don't say anything. You left after waiting 20 minutes and are no longer there.

Tell them that you didn't really appreciate them keeping you waiting for so long and you think their behavior is rude.

Say something about the time and ask them if something happened unexpectedly that made them late.

Just let it go, because you are not a fan of conflict.

You have a friend that is always reasonably late to everything. How do you react?

Blow up at him and stop making plan with him all together.

Learn to cope with his tardiness by finding things to occupy your time while you wait. It's not worth arguing over.

Begin to tell him to meet you 20 minutes before you intend to show up so that you trick him into showing up on time without knowing it.

Voice that you really value the friendship, but are becoming more and more frustrated by his lack in concept of time, which threatens your friendship

Your cousin that you are around often tends to insult you indirectly, constantly pointing out your flaws. What should you do?

Avoid this relative at all costs and make sure the rest of your family knows why!

Start to point out their flaws. Give them a little taste of their own medicine.

Speak up and say, “well that was a little rude wasn't it” and keep your distance, by just going about your business at family gatherings.

Try to get on their good side by working on your flaws so they have nothing left to say.

Your girlfriend/boyfriend somehow always makes you the center of jokes when others are around. You explain to him/her how it hurts you & they respond by telling you that you need to develop a defence.

Decide that their right you need to loosen up and take the jokes less seriously.

Don't say anything about the jokes again, but instead decide to get even.

Make similar jokes about them.

Re-evaluate if the relationship is still making you happy and consider all of your options including getting out.

At a restaurant, you wait a very long time until the waiter finally brings your food and to top it off it's very cold. What do you do?

Keep quiet and leave an extremely small tip.

Tell the waiter that the service is unacceptable and ask what they can do to make things right.

Stay quiet, everyone has off days and you don't want to risk the waiter spitting in your food!

Tell the waiter that he is completely incompetent and you will be making a large complaint to his manager.