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Anonymous asked in Social ScienceSociology · 1 week ago

What’s the best things to say to a rude co-worker that gives you orders?

I’m playing the nice guy with this little guy but deep down i so badly want to fracture his shin with my steel boot and bruise up his face with my fists for not properly respecting me. Good for him I won’t do that because I know I’ll feel bad and I do want to be a good person but fking hell this guys a knob. In fact there’s a couple of knobs (probably myself included, although I don’t disrespect anyone) but I only care about this one particular knob. I’m getting the vibe he sees me as a threat to his own masculinity and so in turn he’s trying to assert dominance with his knobby ways. This guys more mature looking then me, not too much older, just a bearded hairy guy, looks like a ladies man only he’s short and a little fluffy, probably on the skinny fat side but not weak looking (for his size), he’s proper in with the team (they’ve travelled on jobs with him for years). Then you’ve got me, some new younger guy, taller, ripped strong build, weaker personality, possibly quite ugly but the most physically capable in the team, absolute fitness freak, super respectful, obsessed with watching and partaking in combat sports, feels infrequent intensities of anxiety throughout the working day. This guys being rude to me and I’ve continued to keep it soft with him, every time I fall weak to pride I do it in the most stupid, heart on sleeve type of fashions and get kicked off of jobs. I can’t keep doing this, but I can’t let this little guy think he can keep getting rude to me. I want t

Update:

reply to his rudeness in a witty sort of way. My first idea is to let him know where the shops are and that there are tampons he can go and collect from there. I’m wondering if anyone has anymore ideas along these lines. Witty and smart replies. Maybe I could just firm his rudeness and continue to be nice and soft, but that’s gonna build up rage and I’m surely gonna eventually explode. 

I know the rational person will say let them know you don’t like being spoken to like that, but I promise you

Update 2:

upon saying that I will end up in this confrontation where the other person gets annoyed and I suddenly look like the antagoniser. I need to take the piss out of this guy to make the other coworkers laugh, I can’t make this a serious thing.

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  • 3 days ago

    It depends on the roles you each have in your workplace.  If you are equals, then a dose of sarcasm works for me, but if he ranks higher, you'll need to bite your tongue and wait for him to fall on his own sword.

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