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Ever worked with a self inflated (insert word of choice here)?

I have a total biotch that picks up my asignment now and then. When I hand it off I am biting my tongue at every question.

Ohhhhh it is so hard sometimes not to stop point blank and ask her "WTF is wrong with you?" She's alienated the unit and I felt bad one day thinking maybe she just got off on the wrong foot (whenever that was I don't know) so I tried to pull her back into the fold a little.

She dumps out the coffee pot even if it is just made the second she arrives and then barrels like a tank to her locker.

Wouldn't it be great if you were given the opportunity to just once tell someone what you really think with no consequence?

You know the kind of deal where you snap your fingers and they don't remember.


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I probably have but I don't remember any specifics.

Perhaps my career path is a bit less confrontational? Basically, the turnover of staff is low so if I get on with people, they are likely to be around for some time. The ones with the potential to stir things up only tend to stick around for 1-3 years - usually just the one year - so I outlast them easily, therefore no need to get too upset about any potential rifts.

The whole point would be that they did remember and thus corrected their behavior.

I'm afraid I'm the opposite of Pilgrim, I would in a profession that is, by definition, confrontational; and I'm well suited for my role. :twisted:

That said, I get along with my co-workers and try to remember the need for respect - I need them and they know it. :oops:

Yes, that must be something you'd have to have or it'd be a short career.

Couldn't do it myself - not thick-skinned enough. Plus having to deal with all the jokes about the profession ;-)

Modern day gladiators....

Being in sales you could.nt afford to be confrontational with the customer .. honey gets you more contracts ..

But the *staff* or fellow employees that sometimes was a differant story .

mostly i minded my own and expected the same from the others , but now and again you got the *know all* sales rep who insisted on telling you what you was doing wrong and of course while he was doing that he missed his leads and they were picked up by us *other * types who were under his reasoning .. doing it wrong ...


I like ROB showed respect to others and demanded it in return , sometimes thought of as cold /detached by others in the same bisiness i didnt get really close to anybody i saw day to day .
meaning some of them ate lunch and shared part of their leasure time church etc together , but then i was never on the outside looking in either. .

One can say there is a level of togetherness that you must have to ensure smooth running of the operation , a mutual respect, and a unconfrontational attitude .
but living in each others pocket is a no no the profession is to competative for that .