Help! Meeting with jerk VP this week

[Anonymous]

Treat it like a game of chess and try to outplay him
Good luck!

[Anonymous]

can you record the meeting? If you are in DC it is a 1 person consent and you are the 1 person.

Next step - be prepared. If you are supposed to have a deck that talks about X. Make sure you have it.
Have an objective stated that this is about X. When he asks about Y state that it was not the objective, you are happy to end the meeting and get a response.

Other than that, you already figured out an approach to stand your ground - and the grey rock approach is a great tip.
Say as little as possible.
Give yourself time to frame responses - in my experience the moments of silence are triggers to people like this - so use this approach but be prepared for the response.

Do not lose sleep over this - it is not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does the company need him? What makes him valuable?

THIS.
If enough employees report his behavior, he will get fired. No reasonable company will fire 10 employees to keep a bad manager.
You have the numbers on your side. Fight back.