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Originally posted by Dick Linn
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.
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*chuckle* I had two similar experiences that I agonized over at the time, that taught me how to deal with difficult people and circumstances since then with more equanimity.
I created several very successful programs. A woman was so jealous she tried and tried to destroy them. I agonized and chose not to do anything about her. My programs continued to be successful, and she eventually went away.
2nd incident I was working analyzing records and indexing them for Yucca Mountain Project in Vegas. A new boss was best friends with a co-worker who always hated me for some unknown reason. When the new boss came on, they did an assessment of the dept and discovered I was always doing triple the quota, and that difficult woman was doing 1/4th of the quota. It made her hate me more. For three years she tried and tried to get me in trouble. It never worked. I remember the last time. I was marched into the office, the boss said, "She says you're talking about her!" Truly confused I looked around and saw the woman cowering in the corner. I asked, "What are you talking about?"
That boss eventually had a reluctant respect for me. Frankly I never had any for her. I did always treat her cordially however. She too was eventually gone.