Re: The Ugly Incident

[Marylee Hendricks <marylee_hendricks -at- RETEK -dot- COM>]

Elna is right.  Lighten up, George.  I've had run-ins with all kinds of loud
people at work, we all have.  (You, too, if you stop and look back for even
a minute.)  I can think of three guys right off the bat who would work
themselves up into to a perfect crescendo of crankiness and culminate in
such displays of shouting and even swearing that you stepped back as a
reflex for fear that their little heads would explode and some would get on
you.

Fur will fly when people get into loud disagreements, not just when men and
women square off.

I've had some success with the tactic of not reacting to people's shouting
so they don't have that thrill of audience participation, and sometimes even
telling them that I will not talk to someone who is hollering at me.  Just
don't play.

Marylee (who often marvels at the wonder of it all)

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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Elna Tymes [SMTP:etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM]
        Sent:   Tuesday, October 20, 1998 1:57 PM
        To:     TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
        Subject:        Re: The Ugly Incident

        George Mena wrote:

        The problem, dear George, is not with male-female interactions. It's
with
        interactions between PEOPLE.  Gender has nothing to do with it.
NOTHING.



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