Passive aggression

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This has come up a few times recently. Some people seem to believe passive aggression never works and nothing good ever comes of it, others disagree and think it is a great tool!

What’s your opinion?

I have a MIL who tries to use it and fails spectacularly. Everyone just sees through her.

I did it back to her once after she failed to send a copy of DH’s BSc certificate (she has the original on her wall and he ran out of copies but needed one for work). After 4 months of excuses and DH’s HR department getting annoyed, I told her that he would probably get reprimanded or even fired. 😲. She had been hanging on trying to blackmail him into going to her place (other end of the country) to get it but sent it the next day.

I find depends on the recipient of the passive aggression. I try not to be passive aggressive but sometimes I slip up - usually if someone has been annoying me to the point where I'm at my wits end - and with some people it works but with others they just get upset. People who aren't usually passive aggressive also tend to find that it works because people don't expect it from them so it's like a wake up call that something's not right.