Timeline for How should I address abusive behavior by a senior coworker?
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| Mar 11, 2022 at 6:59 | comment | added | Wesley Long | @user132962 - I'm not arguing whether or not it was acceptable. The fact is it WAS ACCEPTED. Given that, the question asked what he could/should do. Given the totality of the circumstances, the answer remains: Very little. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 4:21 | comment | added | Wesley Long | @Chad - don't. Just don't. Senior project members are always cleaning up the problems, whatever they are. It's just how things work. Sometimes we need to just accept that water is wet without having to do a light-spectrum analysis on the color of mud. The guy may be a jerk, but it seems that the management is letting him be a jerk. Mahmoud's asking what he can do. I'm giving him a straight answer: Very little. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 4:15 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | The way I read your answer it seems you are condoning the actions of the senior. You do not explain why they should be tolerated well, which leads me to believe that you are saying the actions are acceptable. And you still have not addressed your flawed assumption | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 3:57 | comment | added | Wesley Long | @Neuromancer - Politically, yes. Austria has always been in the Western Eurpoean block. Culturally, they are different than Germans or Swiss. I have relatives in Austria, and I'm basing what I know about Austria on what they've told me in the past. Obviously, that's a pretty thin slit to view an entire culture through, which is why I said it's hard to judge. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 3:55 | comment | added | Wesley Long | @Chad - I didn't say it was deserved. I certainly don't think it's acceptable, but if the senior management didn't shut the guy down when it happened, then it's being tolerated. Deal with what is, not what should be. Also - my answer was to the original version of the question. The question has since been edited (by you, I see). I invite you to re-read the original version, and my answer may be more germane. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 3:39 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | but he was the one that had to clean things up. - I am not sure where you get that from. I think you assume to much in this answer. That you think that this behavior is deserved and acceptable is even scarier to me. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 1:12 | comment | added | Neuromancer | Austria is most defiantly in the western European block and from the sound of it continued shouting and calling some on an idiot to his face is not acceptable. | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 21:19 | history | answered | Wesley Long | CC BY-SA 3.0 |