Recently there is a smart pants colleague that joined our company.
Likes to hao lian and points out other people’s mistakes
He likes to correct your mistakes (or what seems like the right answer to him) all the time. Having a conversation w him around just puts me in anxiety mode.
He likes to be “right” all the time and always like to show off his knowledge in a particular area, basically likes to come out on top as long as he participates in the conversation.
I enjoy conversations w my other colleagues, but is tough to have him around w/o being too mindful of what I should be saying. I would still like to hang out with my other colleagues and enjoy good (full of mistakes) conversation with them, any suggestions on how to go about doing so?
I mean avoiding him altogether is one. But there would times where it will not be possible since we are in the same company.
Any experts on this?
Here are what netizens think
- Is it just you or do your other colleagues feel the same way?
– I’m going to play the Devil’s Advocate and say your colleague might not even realise he’s doing that. He might honestly just want to share information and engage in conversation.
– Talk to him about it in a nice way. If, however, the situation doesn’t improve, then you can direct the topic to other areas. You need to improve your filter so that such bullshit doesn’t affect you - As soon as he starts talking, just deliberately get up and walk away if you don’t wish to hear what he has to say. Hopefully he gets the msg as well.
– But are you sure he is not trying to impress you to get into your good books? - just needs one person to call them out for them to be aware of their problem.
– we used to have a colleague who joined from a more senior position at a smaller company. at our company, he is older, but he is the same rank as us and sits with us at our cubicles. yet, he still acts like he still has his own room, you know what im saying?
– due to that ego, he never wanted to admit that he DOESNT know things. it feels like he wants to show that he is so good at his job that he doesn’t need us to guide him at all, when in reality, he does.
– we colleagues had enough, and told our HoD that it is hard to work with someone like him, who acts like he cant be taught.
– my HoD then asked him on a one on one, told him the truth that we are uncomfortable with him being hard to cooperate with, and asked him to keep an open mind.
– after that, he was a peach to work with, finally started to be more friendly, finally started asking questions, and downright admitting to not knowing certain basic stuff he had never encountered before.