AIBU to rage at a colleague

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He's a total moron, people think the sun shines out of his ass, he also kisses it.

His background isn't based in our subject area and this infuriates me, is given preferential treatment and rewards, he is clueless about IT stuff which can be useful in our subject. Loves to make it known when he's achieved something, mansplains, interrupts conversations, sticks his nose in, and talks over you.

We deal with a client who employs interns, continuously he rages the moment an e-mail from them comes in, shouts and swears, hits the table, boss just ignores it as he's spineless anyway.

AIBU to rage at him the next time he does it (probably within the next half hour) and say, your life must be easy if you choose get so angry about a CLIENT double checking something?

Maybe he's literate and can write coherently?

Why are you letting him get under your skin? Life is full of these people!

Don't rage, it brings you down to his level.

So helpful zip.

Thanks Billy, you're right really, it's just hard to when he's sitting so close and I can hear him through earphones.

You didn't post for help. You wanted to know if you were being unreasonable.

So far, 66% of the replies think you are.

Have a word with your boss about the shouting and swearing. YANBU.

Maybe he's literate and can write coherently?

They Op seems perfectly coherent to me. I guess it must be my superior reading ans reasoning abilities.

If he is thumping the furniture and swearing, I would go the formal complaint route if I were you.

I think you would definitely be reasonable to talk to him or your boss about the shouting and swearing. I have worked with people like that and it puts the whole office on edge and makes it hard to concentrate on your work.

That would make me want to rage too OP, especially the spineless boss not keeping things in check part. But if I managed to not rage in a moment of weakness/tiredness I would probably rage at him 'in my head' to kind of get it out of my system a bit and then tell myself that he's totally not worth it and that he probably behaves like this because he's unhappy/unsatisfied in life in other ways so I should try not to hate / let it get under my skin as that only negatively impacts me without helping him...

@zipTies You made yourself look really good there.

His background is not relevant.
His line manager clearly thinks he's doing a good job.
You clearly don't like him but that's no reason to "rage" at someone you work with.
Report the shouting and swearing and hitting things. Unacceptable.

YWBU to rage at him.

If he's disturbing you why not just say "would you mind keeping it down a little please"

So embarrassed for zip Cringe.

Good points, thanks all, I guess I'm just at the end of my tether.*

*Checked for literacy

Sorry OP I couldn't make out a word of your incoherent post

No idea what zip is on today but it seems they've got out of bed on the wrong side.

Your colleague sounds really annoying. I would def have a word with your line manager. Shouting and swearing are not on

zip Away back under your rock now and take your pointless GFness with you.

BitOut to be fair I did miss out a word in my last rushed (post) paragraph

I think I'll start pointing it out to colleague and then if it doesn't stop I'll start logging official complaints.

(OP, your post was perfectly understandable to me)

Don't rage back - it will just put you in the wrong. Tell your boss if he shouts at you, colleagues and especially customers. Keep a note of each instance, with date and time, in case it blows up in the future. If he becomes really annoying, get a pair of noise cancelling headphones. If your boss asks why, tell him.

Have a word iwth your boss about the desk/shouting etc... as well as his general attitude that affects work (eg interrupting people etc...)
Stop him when he interrupts and tell him to wait his turn.
Correct him when he masplains and tell him that it’s nit his problem when he is outing his nose in things that are none of his concerns.
In effect, stand your ground whilst ignoring his antics.

He kisses his own arse? That must be a sight to see.