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Subject:RE: Beaten by the mob From:Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:07:19 -0800 (PST)
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Jason Willebeek-LeMair wrote:
Diplomacy first. Make sure you are a good judge of character before pushing back. Be prepared to pay the price if your assessment of character happened to be wrong.
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Good point. Diplomacy is the key. There are also other routes that you should be able to take at a company. Formal complaints with HR for instance. But this sort of thing, I'm sure, would quickly escalate into a war.
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he was obnoxious because he was good
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I hate it when people use their talent as an excuse to be a complete bas***d. I've run into several people like that. It seems like people are more willing to overlook the kind of aggression described in this thread just because someone is talented. :-( I've often wondered why.
One observation about this thread, it seems like it has been mostly women that have reported being challenged by a bully at the work place, and that the bully was a man.
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