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[quote=Anonymous]I had a project manager (not my boss, but in charge of my day to day activities) who was a yeller. The project wasn't going well, and he'd take it out on us by screaming at our whole group.  One day we were trying to explain an issue we were having, he kept interrupting to scream at us that we were just incompetent, and I finally lost it and screamed back at him to shut the f up and listen to what we had to say. It stunned him into a few minutes of silence and we got our explanation in.

We both got called in to HR the next day. But the rest of the team backed me up so I wasn't disciplined. I did get some counseling on how to effectively handle disputes, and I gather he did too.

Thankfully he moved on to another role, and eventually I got his old job as PM. I never yelled at my team.

Not saying my strategy was good (it goes against all of the training I received, and a less sympathetic HR might not have been so forgiving). But in my case it was effective. He was still a yeller, but he never yelled directly at me after that. [/quote]

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