Are you easily rattled?

[NoWomanNoRedRedWine]

A disgruntled former employee was rude to me in front of my team at industry event. I have handles it appropriately, cool, calm and collected, and mentioned to no one since like a non-event.

But inwardly it shook me up, I felt worn out all day and still replay it days after in my head. Anyone else like this?

You handled it well, I would have been telling my husband, my mum, my close friends and been upset.

I had something very similar so I understand!

I delivered a great presentation at an event, got pats on the back from over 20 people there individually - couldn't have gone better type of thing.

One guy thats never liked me for no good reason really snappped at me and kind of shouted at me for about 20 seconds. He's 62, im 32 - so there does feel like an element of he should know better/be kinder. Nobody saw, but i felt my cheeks go red and my throat well with sadness as I brushed it off. It rattled me for the rest of the day and i felt like my sparkle had been dimmed. After that happened i was composed, but it felt like the smallest thing could have pushed me to cry. A few colleagues commented afterwards to ask if everything was ok so it must have been subtly noticeable.

I think it's hard in work scenarios - because we cant just snap back if we are trained (even self trained) to be more professional. If someone spoke to me that way in a social setting; say a stranger in a shop - they'd have got both barrels.