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Originally posted by Redhead Jokes
Ain't that the truth.
A peer years ago taught me to continue to behave appropriately and the difficult person WILL escalate their behavior to continue to attempt to throw you off. If you can continue to behave appropriately, the difficult person will eventually either leave or change their behavior.
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I had to deal with a corporate executive at a company I worked at years ago. The guy was totally unreasonable (I mean REALLY). At one point, I decided he wasn't worth worrying about, if I wanted to keep my sanity. At every meeting and encounter, I pretended that he was a ghost. An image. I was polite, respected authority and all that. He just did not exist as far as I was concerned. It drove him nuts, and he realized that he no longer had any power over me. The moral of the story is to be your own person. Integrity will take you far.
(I also had a professor at Va Tech years ago who had this same type of experience with a professor when she was a grad student - she told the guy in no uncertain terms what he could do with his attitude and he respected her thereafter...hmmm)