I laughed and laughed when I saw this letter because I just resigned from a group that has this exact problem with one middle aged asshole who can't understand what his problem is and one middle aged narcissist woman who feels people who don't want her projecting all over them are lacking in empathy and are shutting down communication. I have lost count of the number of people the two of them have run off but no one in charge seems to want to do a thing about it. That's not why I left but it's what I observed before I did.
People like this are exhausting.
I think the only way to go, if you have the power to end their work for the group, is to be extremely specific about what behaviors they must stop doing. They will argue and refuse to be convinced but if they are told they must stop or leave they might stop.
Or they might enjoy the flounce and then badmouth the organization. Probably more likely.
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I laughed and laughed when I saw this letter because I just resigned from a group that has this exact problem with one middle aged asshole who can't understand what his problem is and one middle aged narcissist woman who feels people who don't want her projecting all over them are lacking in empathy and are shutting down communication. I have lost count of the number of people the two of them have run off but no one in charge seems to want to do a thing about it. That's not why I left but it's what I observed before I did.
People like this are exhausting.
I think the only way to go, if you have the power to end their work for the group, is to be extremely specific about what behaviors they must stop doing. They will argue and refuse to be convinced but if they are told they must stop or leave they might stop.
Or they might enjoy the flounce and then badmouth the organization. Probably more likely.