Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues
If you’re stressed and unhappy because of problems with a boss or colleague, you pay a price. Not only can your mental and physical health suffer, your nearest and dearest get sick of hearing about it. Going to bed angry and waking up only to dread a new workday is a terrible way to live.

Remote work may have lessened the impact of annoying colleagues for a while, but they can still find ways to irritate. If you’re co-located, the “mute” and “stop video” buttons don’t exist to diminish your exasperation. Not all jerks are the same; the person you find to be a nightmare may be perfectly acceptable to others. And, astonishingly, someone else may even think you’re the jerk!

Author Louise Carnachan has the credentials and experience to make her an expert in this area, but more importantly, she’s been in the trenches herself. With an emphasis on the positive actions you can take while being attentive to your specific situation, Work Jerks provides practical advice on how to deal with a variety of problematic coworkers—whether in-person or remotely—so work can stop being something you dread and start being something you enjoy.
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Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues
If you’re stressed and unhappy because of problems with a boss or colleague, you pay a price. Not only can your mental and physical health suffer, your nearest and dearest get sick of hearing about it. Going to bed angry and waking up only to dread a new workday is a terrible way to live.

Remote work may have lessened the impact of annoying colleagues for a while, but they can still find ways to irritate. If you’re co-located, the “mute” and “stop video” buttons don’t exist to diminish your exasperation. Not all jerks are the same; the person you find to be a nightmare may be perfectly acceptable to others. And, astonishingly, someone else may even think you’re the jerk!

Author Louise Carnachan has the credentials and experience to make her an expert in this area, but more importantly, she’s been in the trenches herself. With an emphasis on the positive actions you can take while being attentive to your specific situation, Work Jerks provides practical advice on how to deal with a variety of problematic coworkers—whether in-person or remotely—so work can stop being something you dread and start being something you enjoy.
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Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues

Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues

by Louise Carnachan
Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues

Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues

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Overview

If you’re stressed and unhappy because of problems with a boss or colleague, you pay a price. Not only can your mental and physical health suffer, your nearest and dearest get sick of hearing about it. Going to bed angry and waking up only to dread a new workday is a terrible way to live.

Remote work may have lessened the impact of annoying colleagues for a while, but they can still find ways to irritate. If you’re co-located, the “mute” and “stop video” buttons don’t exist to diminish your exasperation. Not all jerks are the same; the person you find to be a nightmare may be perfectly acceptable to others. And, astonishingly, someone else may even think you’re the jerk!

Author Louise Carnachan has the credentials and experience to make her an expert in this area, but more importantly, she’s been in the trenches herself. With an emphasis on the positive actions you can take while being attentive to your specific situation, Work Jerks provides practical advice on how to deal with a variety of problematic coworkers—whether in-person or remotely—so work can stop being something you dread and start being something you enjoy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781647423698
Publisher: She Writes Press
Publication date: 06/14/2022
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 1,066,760
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

For over forty years, Louise Carnachan has worked as a trainer and organization development consultant helping thousands of leaders and staff members achieve interpersonal success with challenging work relationships. She has worked in manufacturing, education, healthcare, and scientific organizations. As a consultant, her clients have included Head Start programs, PNW Fertility, Bastyr University and Clinic, VA Puget Sound Health Care, a variety of Washington State departments, Boeing, McDonalds Corporation, Starbucks, University of Washington Medical Center, and the Port of Seattle. She is former adjunct faculty at Seattle Pacific University and Seattle Community College and taught a course for the University of Washington’s MBA program. Currently, she is a semi-retired coach for leadership clients and pens a workplace advice blog on her website (with debatable input from her feline office mates). She lives in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, and enjoys Powell’s Books, coastal beach towns, and her local library, where she can most often be found browsing the mystery section.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 How to Use This Book 1

Where to Start 3

About Jerks 4

The Assumptions 5

Is It You? 6

A Warning 6

About the Case Examples 7

In the End 7

Chapter 2 The Narcissistic Jerk 8

The Narcissistic Leader 9

The Gang Leader 16

The Dramatics and Non-Stop Talkers 24

Summary for Dealing with Any Narcissistic Jerk 32

Chapter 3 The Know-It-All Jerk 33

The Know-It-All with Guru Tendencies 34

The Lone Wolf Team Member 40

The Insufferable 44

The Meddlesome Manager 49

The Gotcha 53

Summary for Dealing with Any Know-It-All Jerk 58

Chapter 4 The Incompetent Jerk 60

The Square Peg in a Round Hole Incompetent 62

The Unknowing, Unskilled, and Left-to-Languish 70

The Infuriatingly Incompetent Boss 76

Summary for Dealing with Any Incompetent Jerk 88

Chapter 5 The Runaway-Train Jerk 90

The High-Speed Train 90

The Funeral Train 95

The Hazardous Materials Train 100

The Milk-Run Tram 104

The Stop-at-All-Crossings Train 108

The Circuitous Train 113

Summary for Dealing with Any Runaway-Train Jerk 118

Chapter 6 The Fight-or-Flee Jerk 119

The Chip-on-the-Shoulder the Size of an Elephant 121

The Smart-as-a-Whip and Hugely Defensive 126

The Pot Stirrer 131

The Disappearing Act 135

The Let's Make a Deal 141

Summary for Dealing with Any Fight-or-Flee Jerk 147

Chapter 7 The Poor He Jerk 149

The Quaking-in-Their-Boots 150

The Why Me? 155

The Take Care of Me 160

The Complainers-Are They Justified? 164

Summary for Dealing with Any Poor Me Jerk 168

Chapter 8 The Jokester Jerk 170

The Punster Amongst Us 171

The Tone-Deaf Humorist 174

The Just Kidding 178

The I'm Going to Get Under Your Skin Teasing 183

Summary for Dealing with Any Jokester Jerk 188

Chapter 9 The We Are Family Jerk 189

The Family Ties 190

The Looking for Love 197

The Best Friends Forever-Until We're Not! 203

The Teeny-Tiny Gene Pool 207

Summary for Dealing with Any We Are Family Jerk 212

Chapter 10 The Habitually Annoying Jerk 214

The Scent-sational (and Cultural Differences Therein) 215

The Presumptuous About Me and You! 221

The Things We Don't Need to Know or See 223

The Suspicious Sounds 226

The Stretching the Truth 228

The Rude 230

The Tell Me Something-Vocal Volume Hurdles 232

Summary for Dealing with Any Habitually Annoying Jerk 235

Chapter 11 Men the Jerk Is a Toxic Work Culture 237

Turf Wars 239

People as Commodities 240

Go Along to Get Along (and Keep Your Job) 241

What If I'm in One of These Cultures or an Equally Bad One? 242

Chapter 12 To See Results, Take Action 245

Give Yourself an Advantage 246

Is There Ever a Place for Documentation? 248

What If Nothing Seems to Be Working? 249

Make It Intentional 250

Finally 251

Additional Resources 252

Acknowledgments 257

About the Author 259

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