Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mispronounce things very slightly.
Barnes and Nobles. Costcos. That type of thing.
I do that. Also if I don't like you I will call you by the wrong name
It's petty but when people are consistently rude to me, I "forget" their names a lot more. I used to work at a law firm as a research librarian. I have a law degree as well as a masters in library sciences, and my job was to help firm attorney's with research as well as to train new associates on research techniques and our resources. Most of the associates I trained were great, had some humility about the fact that they were brand new and had a lot to learn, and were respectful of the fact that I was a very experience professional who was there to show them the ropes.
But there were a few little pissants who believed that because I was "support staff" and they were billing attorneys, they could treat me like dirt. I simply never learned any of their names. The best would be when I would do this in front of a department head or other firm leadership who these jerks of course wanted to impress. I had great relationships with all of those folks because I'd been at the firm for many years and done a lot of work for them -- the more senior the attorney, the more likely they were to lean on research staff for support, so we tended to have the closest working relationships with people in leadership, who needed more help because they were busier and had more power to delegate.
None of rude associates ever made partner. I don't think that was my doing, of course. But I think one reason they never did is that they came in thinking they were more important than all the people who made up the firm infrastructure and made it possible for us to do high level work for clients willing to pay a very high rate. They didn't get that, they thought it was all about hierarchies and they wanted someone to look down on.