How to deal with people at work you cannot stand

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Introduction

They might be a supervisor with an OCD tick and a micro-management style that ensures they'll be telling you everything from how to take your coffee to how to wipe your ass. Or they're an incompetent co-worker who covers the fact that they don't know Excel by using unnecessarily wordy phrases to sound smarter ("I think the best way to get the message out would be an electronic communication." You mean an email dumbshit?). They will attempt to hide how drastically under-qualified they are by trying to exert dominance over you, outdoing you, blathering on about crap that they have zero clue about.

How to Deal 1

Workplaces are the perfect battleground for passive-aggressives. Redo a filing structure, but don't bother explaining it to the them. Then act like they're insane when they asks you if you changed it.

2

Forget to invite them to meetings, but be sure to discuss the details of it with other co-workers just within earshot.

3

Offer to get them coffee, then spit in it.

4

Create documents and spreadsheets in programs that they don't understand, and give them titles that don't relate in any way to the given document (the budgeting predictions spreadsheet for 2007 is now called "Circuit Beaver Version 4") . Then rename them to something logical, but don't tell them (when they ask where "Circuit Beaver Version 4" went, stare at them blankly, then tell them it's actually called "2007 Budget")

5

Make up words, facts, and applications ("The Verner Contract prevents us from using anything but the Bukaki filter on our outgoing mail"), and see if she'll reuse them. When she does, ask her what the hell she's talking about. Ask a ton of follow up questions when it's obvious she has no idea what she's talking about.