Message #47680

[jak0215]

A VP at an Engineering firm I worked for always yelled.  Never for a good reason (as if there is in a professional setting) , always just because that was how he how communicated.  I used to let him get his rant out while I calmly sat there waiting for it to be over and then say with a smile "Are you done now?  Would you like me to help you fix the XYZ problem?"  That would knock the wind out of his sails.  I saw him about six months after he "left" the company and remarked at how calm and relaxed he looked.  His response was "when am I not calm and relaxed?"  "Um, How about when you were yelling at me?"  His response was "Jill (by God he got my name right!") you know that I love you, the yelling didn't mean anything"  Yeah, right!  It didn't matter who you were in the office and sometimes even if you were a client - if he felt like yelling, he was going to yell.  It was the running joke around the office.  That and that he never called me by the correct name (Jill) he always called me Julie.