• bia@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    A life hack is that you don’t have to answer what I would perseive as an aggressive phone call. Stand you ground and keep the communication in you preferred way.

    • superduperpirate@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      You’re not wrong at all, but when it happens at work telling them to stop is tricky depending on where they are in the hierarchy.

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        9 hours ago

        I know, its hard. I’m dealing with a colleague like this higher in the org. Some are jerks, but I find most people respect the honesty.

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          3 hours ago

          I feel like I’m that jerk 😒. I need a way to leave a not for the guys to work on when they get to work in their morning, long before morning in my time zone. But they don’t do email so I have no choice but to text. Apparently a text is something urgent that they feel like they need to respond to immediately. I can’t win