Oh my god. I just walked out on a job because of a coworker like this. She had so much egoism that you couldn’t even begin to express your disagreement with her. I got a sense that when someone disagreed with her, she felt like she was “strong” for sticking up for herself. I’d be working, and instead of constructively criticizing me, she’d just say “NO! You’re doing it wrong!” and butt into what I’m doing and finish it. Hell, she wouldn’t even think twice to yell at me and scold me even when customers were present. Needless to say I was bothered by it, so I would tell her to explain to me what I did wrong or request that she not yell because I felt it was inappropriate. Obviously this didn’t work with her personality. This led to her yelling at me because I was always sassing her. Sometimes, she wouldn’t even say anything, just totally interrupt what I was doing and finish the task.
Because of our clashing, I wished to discuss it with her. She said there wasn’t anything to discuss. I started explaining my opinion anyway, and she started yelling over me, not even giving me a chance to have a civilized discussion about it. In fact, whenEVER I tried to say anything back to her she’d do that. She must’ve loved hearing herself.
This is how she explained it, using her accent (overheard by her slandering me to another coworker): “I don’t sugarcoat nothin’ I explain things the way dey iz and if dey can’t handle it then [that’s their problem].”
What the hell kind of assbackwards, egotistic pride is this?!