Need Advice Dealing with a Super-Annoying Co-worker 1

[RocEngineer]

Hi folks, it's like a Dilbert cartoon. Just asking out of frustration here, hoping you might have some advice on how to manage this. It's like I'm constantly butting heads with this guy. I'm a senior engineer in one section and he's a non-engineer manager in another section.

To give you an idea, he lectures me on various protocols, nit-picks, he's a micro-manager, suspicious, and doesn't like to take no for an answer. And if I respond to him with any sort of frustration, he'll tell my boss (who is also sick of this guy) or he'll go to the director (who hired the guy). This kind of behavior just isn't normal. He's a very intelligent, pain in the arse who just wears me down.

All right, sorry for the whining here ... I'm to the point where it's stressing me out and affecting my work though. I don't like dealing with him, let alone talking to him, but unfortunately I have to. Otherwise, I love my work and the people I work with. Any good, professional comebacks that you use to get people off your back or give them a hint? I know what I'd like to say, but he'll act like the victim. It's a delicate situation.

 

[lacajun]

Document, document, document.

I read this fella's books last year and learned a whole lot about human behavior. It completely changed my ways of thinking about some people. I would suggest reading at least Character Disturbance. Dr. George Simon, Ph.D.

Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
Quillin Engineering, LLC