I work with a guy like Tweety

[HipChick]

He'll ask me a question, before I start to answer he'll cut me off, and answer it himself

He'll task me with something, and before I have chance to start it, he's already telling me how to do it

He'll ask me my opinion and says he wants my ideas, but will talk on top of me, before hearing out what I have to say

He really made me mad the other day, I wish it wasn't assault to punch him on the nose..

[LakeSamish706]

1. Do you work with, or work for? There is a difference... If you work with him, punch the Ahole...

in the nose (only kidding) but I would tell him in no uncertain terms that I don't like being talked over.. Grrrrr I hate that... Tweety drives me nuts when he is in that mode.

[HipChick]

3. for...I think he does it to intimidate..

[LakeSamish706]

4. Sounds like it, and I have had many that do that very thing...

[bridgit]

2. heh-heh, is it still assault if you box his lips? Cause if it is it shouldn't be

:7

[izquierdista]

5. Gesture

Sometimes a turning motion with the hand, with the index and middle fingers extended, is used to get people to continue talking. If the sarcasm of this gesture is lost on him, just smile and leave only one finger extended.

[HipChick]

6. He was in stellar form this week, and tried to lay into me pretty badly..

Not Tweety...the a-hole I have to work with

He slipped in that (I work in a very male dominated field) that in times like this, that I was taking up a man's job, taking up a job a man could use to feed his family..WTH? then he lit the match with that the best place for women like me was to be home, in the bedroom.

I'm not a rabid feminist, there are times I've worked more than 1 job to support myself, never been on welfare, no kids to take care, put myself through school and yet in a professional career still putting up with this crap?..

As much I tried to bite my tongue, I think I had steam coming out of ears, and PMS'ing didn't help
so I verbally let him have it, I think he was shocked!...and then I did something I haven't done in a situation like this in over a decade - I went outside and shed some tears...Hopefully, I only have to put up with him for a couple more weeks...he's such a jerk!

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

7. sort of reminds me of my friend The Coversation Monopolizer

He's so bad that even after cutting me off he acknowledges it's bad form, BUT says that he has to make one more (long) point, then I get to say something. lol

Unlike Tweety, we usually have more than 10 minutes to converse so I just wait him out.

[HipChick]

8. I don't have that much patience...

and don't know my place as a woman...:rofl: his poor wife..