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Mantras to help you work with people you don't like...

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Canyoucheckonme · 01/10/2023 21:10

Do you use any? I'm having big issues with colleagues who are stupid or untrustworthy/vindictive or both, and could do with some handy mantras to help me over the next few months. Hoping for a new job in the spring.

So far, I have:

  1. I don't have to understand you, I just have to tolerate you.
  2. Nod and smile. Breathe. Repeat.
  3. Think of the end users.
  4. This is not forever

Anyone else stuck in a job with twats and use phrases to get them through the day?

OP posts:
Listening2023 · 08/10/2023 15:49

"You poor thing, I pray God will forgive you because I'm struggling right now!" 🤣

yorkshirebird2382 · 08/10/2023 15:51

I have "play the game" looping around in my head a lot of the time

RicherThanYews · 08/10/2023 15:55

When it gets really bad I put things in their tea 🥰 One individual uses a silicon straw so I dropped it into the loo first.

UnDruidlyWords · 08/10/2023 15:58

I comfort myself that some esoteric traditions have it that about 30% of the world's population are in their first incarnation as human and, if it happens to be that in their last lives they were hedgehogs, their obnoxiousness isn't really their fault, because they don't yet know how to 'human'.

Runnerinthenight · 10/10/2023 23:54

RicherThanYews · 08/10/2023 15:55

When it gets really bad I put things in their tea 🥰 One individual uses a silicon straw so I dropped it into the loo first.

You're evil, lol!!!

I may once (many years ago) have farted in the mouthpiece of a colleague's phone and took great pleasure out of seeing her talk closely into it the following day...!!!

(I am going to hell in a handcart!!!)

bellamountain · 11/10/2023 00:03

I used to have dreams about wells and taking away the ladder for one particular colleague. Helped me survive.

ShopoholicIn · 11/10/2023 00:29

brittanyfairies · 02/10/2023 06:45

If you smile you can say c**t without moving your lips, so I would spend a lot of my day walking around with a huge smile on my face. Thank goodness I left that job.

Hahaha i will try that

Lovely thread op..I am going to take some suggestions from here
Unfortunately I have nothing to add from my side. I just share my miseries with my friends n family.

KateyCuckoo · 11/10/2023 00:51

Autumntimeagain · 02/10/2023 06:37

I always start humming the bit of that Justin Timberlake song 'Love yourself'.

'''Cause if you like the way you look that much
Oh, baby, you should go and love yourself
And if you think that I'm still holdin' on to somethin'
You should go and love yourself

So everyone just thinks I'm a happy camper at work, but I'm really saying 'go fuck yourself' whenever someone has pissed me off 😉😁

Bieber not Timberlake! 😄

Blanketpolicy · 11/10/2023 00:57

I have reached an age where I think they probably find me as irritating as I find them and just get on with it.

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Canyoucheckonme · 12/10/2023 19:58

I've almost finished Surrounded by Idiots and am really enjoying it! It's helping me understand some of them for sure.

Was feeling so down and overwhelmed when I started this thread, but things have shifted in the office slightly and I'm feeling better now.

OP posts:
Surroundedbyfools · 12/10/2023 20:38

Two things….

  1. I think to myself least I don’t have to live with them
  2. I say over n over to myself this fucker is the most important person in the world to someone so just tolerate it !

also think fuck off fuck off fuck off Everytime they talk

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