My Life as Open Source

Today is sunny and warm and I feel like telling a real life horror I’m dealing with.

There is one guy at work is the biggest pain in the ass I ever encountered in my life. This guy is a certified workaholic in his 40s’, is not married, has no kids, lives alone and definitely has no social life of any kind. He is notoriously known by lashing out rude remarks about everything; no one is willing to talk to him unless it’s a business matter. Every company will like him because they work him like a dog and he does not seem to complain about it. Our HR even have to force him to take vacations because this guy simply has no concept of life. He lives to work, not works to live unlike the rest of us. Can you imagine this guy would rather doze off at his desk than going on sick leave when he has fever? Basically he lives for the purpose of spending every day of his life in the office.

But, that is not what bugs me about him. As I have said, this guy has no social life or whatever; our office is the only place that he can get some human interactions in daily life. I’ve stop spoken to him for a long time because of his rude comments over everything, since then my life is in peace. This guy sits near me, most of the time I put on earphones so that I don’t have to listen to his blah-blah-blah, boy he is such a talkative guy! However, his other behavior can’t be dealt with by blocking him out, whenever I chat with someone, he would pick up what I’ve said and shot back, just to humiliate me. Most of the time I would remain silent, talking back would be the same as feeding the internet troll, but still it would upset me, being humiliated and not able to fight back.

I have considered approaching HR about this guy, the problem is that what he bugs me off is not issue from a corporate standpoint. I simply do not want change job because of this. What’ll I do if I encounter someone like this in another office, change job again? And keep doing so until I find a workplace without obnoxious jerk? No such thing. So I’m going to have to face that. Hardly any job is perfect but we can all try to find one that’s at least tolerable.

A clever friend of mine had once taught me to laugh no matter what he retorted, it would confused the hell out of him. I have to agree this is the best method I’ve ever heard, however such action requires an extremely high level of EQ to overcome the feeling of being scoffed. So my current goal is to learn better-control my emotions, it can be the biggest struggles in my life.

Luckily I have a beloved family and supportive friends, one day I’ll deal with situations effectively. There are always some people who lack of humanity and intelligence, and I’m definitely not of them.

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