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Originally posted by sfiail
I've dealt with jerks like this. I let one jerk lateral senior associate push me around. Another junior GA peer had a closed door session with the jerk and the jerk treated em with respect and didn't tweak to em about paper clips and formatting from that point on.
I asked the successful junior what em said to get the jerk to stay cool. Our jerk was a real nut. So strong language was called for.
You don't sound like you're there yet. Try this. The next time the jerk tells you to redo something for formatting or something else stupid, say you did it in a way everyone else in your office likes. You'll try to do things for the jerk its way in the future, but you don't want/ have time to redo something for aesthetic reasons.
If this doesn't get the jerk to cool it, then I don't know what to do. You will probably have to be more forceful. Or you could try the sly approach. ("You should know you're making people mad by insisting on x,y and z. It's gonna hurt you if you don't stop.") But the sly, "I'm-just-giving-you-some-inside-advice" approach may make the jerk think you are its friend or ally.
Bottom line is you will have to say something to the jerk to get this to stop. Senior people usu. don't want to hear about shit like this. Also, they may not want to admit/find out they hired a dweeb. Start by politely standing your ground. That usu. makes most people cool it. You don't want to directly confront the jerk unless you have to. But if you have to, sooner is better than later.
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A good start, my young pupil. Now condense it all into a single paragraph, and we're almost there.
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