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My Co-Worker is Sick and Twisted

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Dear Dan:

I am working with someone (another female) that has a very twisted, sick sense of humor. All of her jokes are usually at someone else’s expense. She is not well-liked; but does an excellent job. She and I are “co-leaders” in a healthcare environmen and our Operations Manager recently went out on medical leave leaving this person in charge. where we used to be able to communicate effectively, she now feels the need to assign projects to me. This coming from e-mails we have both received…..and could normally discuss and determine which of us was going to do what. She literally makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I get very poor energy from her; and needless to say, I have given her permission to take all of of mine as I literally despise coming to work………Please help!

Stressed Out in Saratoga Springs

Dear Stressed:

Wow, sounds like you really are having a miserable time. Let me take one issue at a time:

For the sick jokes that are usually at someone else’s expense, it sounds as though she would be what we would call the sniper. We talk about snipers a lot in my on-site communication training seminars, because they are a common office energy vampire.

Snipers take cheap shots at you in a public forum (when they wouldn’t behave the same way in private) (more…)

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