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[quote=Anonymous]I work with a male colleague - I am one level up from him in our bureaucratic co but he doesn’t report to me- who seems ADD ish and often fires off multiple semi aggressive sounding messages that typically try to push work on me or others, but he is often wrong or under informed, and the work is his to cover.

Example, I asked him a question about an issue on a project that is his subject matter expertise (his coverage area, not mine) and he sent back multiple messages essentially asking why I’d ask him this question, but repeatedly misreading the question. We had to go back and forth 5 times (I suggested waiting to talk live, but he kept firing messages back, and I had no meeting time available anyway), and it ended up requiring me to spend time to dig into things that he is supposed to be handling. I have to spoon feed him info. And when I presented him with the info he should have known/found on his own, his initial answer was wrong. He insisted he had not done something, and I was able to go in and find a document drafted by him where he had done the exact thing I’d asked him about.

This happens a lot.

How to handle? I don’t want to talk to his manager, and admittedly I’m not good at direct conflict.

Wwyd? [/quote]

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