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Whats a passive aggressive person?

You do something to piss Mrs Passive Agressive off, so she murders your dog and keys your car, but doesn't dare to confront you to say "please turn your stereo down".
 
I was going to answer your question, but I know you won't understand it because of the way you are anyway.
 
O I C 😱

I thought it was maybe someone who was extremely passive one minute and then crazy with rage the next.

Normal person: can i have the remote?
Passive aggressive: sure take it, i don't mind, its cool bro 🙂
*takes remote*
Passive aggressive: NO! GIVE IT BACK, YOU CAN TAKE IT FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS!!

Kinda like that.
 
Or it can be that employee or team member who says 'yes' to a request or instruction, but counter-acts so that nothing is done at all or things are even worse than they were. And it's deliberately done.
 
Rather than confront the person directly that has annoyed them (dirty dishes piled in the sink, for example), the PA person will often leave a post-it note next to the sink, usually with a snarky comment along the lines of "Dirty sinks make Baby Jesus Cry! 🙁 -Management," that belies the often long-winded rants of hatred and anger spewed by the PA individual when referencing, to their friends, the nasty habits of the filthy individual that has angered them.
 
Maximilian said:
O I C 😱

I thought it was maybe someone who was extremely passive one minute and then crazy with rage the next.

Normal person: can i have the remote?
Passive aggressive: sure take it, i don't mind, its cool bro 🙂
*takes remote*
Passive aggressive: NO! GIVE IT BACK, YOU CAN TAKE IT FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS!!

Kinda like that.
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That's bi-polar, Passive aggressive behavior is wimpy and annoying. Bi-polar disorder is outright crazy.
 
A passive-aggressive smoker will breath in other people's smoke in the hope that they'll get cancer and so make the smoker feel guilty.
 
I'm passive aggressive and proud of it. Here is what a typical work meeting with me sounds like when someone at the meeting doesn't know me (details changed obviously):

New person: The sky is always green and has red stripes with black plaid overlaid.

Me: The sky is normally blue to grey during the day, black at night possibly with white polka dots, and often may be colored pink to red during sunrise/sunset. Green may occur during events like the northern lights, but that isn't always the case anywhere and certainly isn't commonly seen at this latitude.

New person: You are wrong, I am right. Anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot.

Me: Silent. (This is the passive part).

New person banging his chest from my lack of response: See that proves the sky is always green and has red stripes with black plaid overlaid. This person then proudly speaks loudly during the rest of the meeting and interrupts everyone's points with other nonsense.



Within 10 minutes after the meeting: I email the entire group a current photo of the sky being blue, a calibrated spectrometer analysis of the sky with the blue peak marked, a record of the past 100 years showing the average blue / grey content of the sky during the day (and no green or plaid), an article decribing how the northern lights have never been seen in our location, etc. (This is the aggressive part).

From then on: stupid new person idiot doesn't ever confront me again in a meeting (and often is quiet at any future meetings), everyone respects me, and I get the final say in disagreements from then on.
 
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dullard said:
I'm passive aggressive and proud of it. Here is what a typical work meeting with me sounds like when someone at the meeting doesn't know me (details changed obviously):

New person: The sky is always green and has red stripes with black plaid overlaid.

Me: The sky is normally blue to grey during the day, black at night possibly with white polka dots, and often may be colored pink to red during sunrise/sunset. Green may occur during events like the northern lights, but that isn't always the case anywhere and certainly isn't commonly seen at this latitude.

New person: You are wrong, I am right. Anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot.

Me: Silent. (This is the passive part).

New person banging his chest from my lack of response: See that proves the sky is always green and has red stripes with black plaid overlaid. This person then proudly speaks loudly during the rest of the meeting and interrupts everyone's points with other nonsense.



Within 10 minutes after the meeting: I email the entire group a current photo of the sky being blue, a calibrated spectrometer analysis of the sky with the blue peak marked, a record of the past 100 years showing the average blue / grey content of the sky during the day (and no green or plaid), an article decribing how the northern lights have never been seen in our location, etc. (This is the aggressive part).

From then on: stupid new person idiot doesn't ever confront me again in a meeting (and often is quiet at any future meetings), everyone respects me, and I get the final say in disagreements from then on.
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So, what color is the sky in your corporate world?
 
Maximilian said:
O I C 😱

I thought it was maybe someone who was extremely passive one minute and then crazy with rage the next.

Normal person: can i have the remote?
Passive aggressive: sure take it, i don't mind, its cool bro 🙂
*takes remote*
Passive aggressive: NO! GIVE IT BACK, YOU CAN TAKE IT FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS!!

Kinda like that.
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nothing like that at all.

normal person: can i have the remote?
passive aggressive: ... sure. *gives remote... and then goes all around the house and finds every remote in the house and gives them to the normal person.*
there you go, now you have all of the remotes so you can feel like a big man.
 
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dullard said:
I'm passive aggressive and proud of it. Here is what a typical work meeting with me sounds like when someone at the meeting doesn't know me (details changed obviously):

New person: The sky is always green and has red stripes with black plaid overlaid.

Me: The sky is normally blue to grey during the day, black at night possibly with white polka dots, and often may be colored pink to red during sunrise/sunset. Green may occur during events like the northern lights, but that isn't always the case anywhere and certainly isn't commonly seen at this latitude.

New person: You are wrong, I am right. Anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot.

Me: Silent. (This is the passive part).

New person banging his chest from my lack of response: See that proves the sky is always green and has red stripes with black plaid overlaid. This person then proudly speaks loudly during the rest of the meeting and interrupts everyone's points with other nonsense.



Within 10 minutes after the meeting: I email the entire group a current photo of the sky being blue, a calibrated spectrometer analysis of the sky with the blue peak marked, a record of the past 100 years showing the average blue / grey content of the sky during the day (and no green or plaid), an article decribing how the northern lights have never been seen in our location, etc. (This is the aggressive part).

From then on: stupid new person idiot doesn't ever confront me again in a meeting (and often is quiet at any future meetings), everyone respects me, and I get the final say in disagreements from then on.
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you made the mistake of assuming new person was talking about earth's sky.

you may or may not be forgiven for your mistake.
 
my ex was hardcore passive aggressive... a favorite was repeatedly complaining about not having something instead of outright asking me to buy it (which, of course, made me resentful and even *less* likely to buy a gift)
 
loki8481 said:
my ex was hardcore passive aggressive... a favorite was repeatedly complaining about not having something instead of outright asking me to buy it (which, of course, made me resentful and even *less* likely to buy a gift)
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I thought it was only women that did that. :hmm:
 
Zorander said:
Or it can be that employee or team member who says 'yes' to a request or instruction, but counter-acts so that nothing is done at all or things are even worse than they were. And it's deliberately done.
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Sounds like my workplace.
 
the most important element to being a great PA is always being right. if you make a mistake, it'll take you a lot of work to dig back from that
 
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