“My coworker, Brenda, always acted like she was the boss, making demands and trying to control everything. One day, she approached me with a condescending smirk on her face. Brenda: You need to stay late tonight and finish my report. I have more important things to do.
I looked at her, unimpressed, and replied with a smirk of my own. ‘Actually, Brenda, i’m tired of you acting like you’re my manager when we’re in the same position. I know my worth and I’m not going to do your work because you’re too lazy to do it yourself. In fact, i’m reporting you to HR.'”
Or What?
U/voiceofcraisin: “One of my new employees came from a competitor who is…not as put together as we are. Her former boss had actually called me to yell at me about ‘poaching’ his consultants. Which, in and of itself, is weird enough. However, a few weeks after she started the dude rolled up to our office. He had apparently been calling her to get her to finish an analysis for him and she just ghosted him. I went to the lobby to see what the heck he was doing here.
I didn’t fully understand the conversation but at one point he literally ‘demanded’ she do this analysis. She just said, ‘or what?’ and waited a few beats before turning on her heels and walking away. I did the ol’ hand on his back point to the door universal symbol for ‘leave or a large security man will make you leave.'”
