The cost of being loud and abrasive...

Men who want to be loud and abrasive must realize that being loud and abrasive comes at a price!

Case in point: Big guy at workplace being loud and abrasive. As much as this might be his true self on a normal day, what he also is on a normal day is, angry, unhealthy and fat. Now I don’t hold that against him. Neither do I expect him to look like Michelangelo’s David or anything. But the tight t-shirts with the pot belly, the diamond ear stud and the crazy 'I-can’t-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-you-mofo’ look makes you wonder about the workings of his mind! Apart from that, he's got the gait of the don who hides in the stone walls of Mumbai's Dagdi Chawl. And I suspect that he carries a dagger in his lap top case as well.

Now, my question is, if you have all of these other beautiful things going for you (or not, depending on which way you look at it), why are you making your vocal cords go that extra mile?

With no intention of being offensive (really really!), why would someone want to draw attention to their very attractive selves by screaming … so loud, for the smallest of things, in a corporate environment?

The last time I checked, people like this were working towards being more acceptable. Rethinking, reworking and rewiring the things that weren’t in their control. Now this, this is just in the complete opposite direction!

Obersvation: Being loud and abrasive comes at a price, like most things.
A price that involves looking good or having a sense of humor or possessing some kind of a talent (one that's vastly acceptable*) or having some character (also one that is vastly acceptable) and I’m sure a host of other things that I'm not listing it out right now.

And before you think it, this isn’t my bias towards pretty people.
This is my inference that pretty boys who might be screaming just might be easier to tolerate than not so pretty guys who are screaming!

* No! Making PowerPoint presentations is not a skill.