I'm a retired IT guy and a student of Pavlov. Look: I had a great career and I have excellent people skills. I called my peeps, "coworkers," and never "users."
I had a lady managing partner who was simply a bully. She treated everybody like shit.
She had more computer problems than average and it was always attributed to something she did wrong. In addition, those problems occurred shortly after she pissed me off. It took 6 fucking months for her to make the connection.
She started amping up her harassment and I continued to be civil and low-profile. I settled complaints with doctored logs that showed she visited online retailers, a dating site, and I hit her machine with a Trojan that popped porn up on her machine and then I revealed the email I said she must have opened and clicked on the embedded link that I planted.
"She" deleted several important documents before saving and I couldn't pull them from backup.
Finally, she started being real sweet and her life got better.
Been there ... (Score:-1, Troll)
... and I train those assholes.
I'm a retired IT guy and a student of Pavlov. Look: I had a great career and I have excellent people skills. I called my peeps, "coworkers," and never "users."
I had a lady managing partner who was simply a bully. She treated everybody like shit.
She had more computer problems than average and it was always attributed to something she did wrong. In addition, those problems occurred shortly after she pissed me off. It took 6 fucking months for her to make the connection.
She started amping up her harassment and I continued to be civil and low-profile. I settled complaints with doctored logs that showed she visited online retailers, a dating site, and I hit her machine with a Trojan that popped porn up on her machine and then I revealed the email I said she must have opened and clicked on the embedded link that I planted.
"She" deleted several important documents before saving and I couldn't pull them from backup.
Finally, she started being real sweet and her life got better.
She bought me an expensive retirement gift.
That's how I handle bullies.
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That's being completely douchy and ethically wrong to deal with the situation you were put in. I'm glad I don't have you as a fucking sysadmin.
The boy read too much BOFH, instead of beating off to National Geographic like a normal kid of his generation.
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blah blah blah
That's how I handle bullies.
With your imagination?
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So, your advice is to become a passive-aggressive one yourself.
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If you actually did any of the crap you said then you're actually a bigger bully than the person you accused of bullying. Congratulations!
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Gaze not long into the abyss.
Success is the best form of revenge. Succeed and let them fade into utter irrelevance.
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