We've got a short dude around the office now. He's maybe 5'3", I dunno. Short. Really short. He's got the short man, Napoleon complex, or whatever you want to call it. Constantly bragging. Drives a muscle car with loud exhaust. Tries to act really macho all the time. Yet dude has a limp sweaty handshake and may even be gay.
What's the strategy for dealing with a dude who's constantly over-compensating for his height or some other problem he has? Dude is driving everyone around the office nuts.
I like to play with debt wrote:
We've got a short dude around the office now. He's maybe 5'3", I dunno. Short. Really short. He's got the short man, Napoleon complex, or whatever you want to call it. Constantly bragging. Drives a muscle car with loud exhaust. Tries to act really macho all the time. Yet dude has a limp sweaty handshake and may even be gay.
What's the strategy for dealing with a dude who's constantly over-compensating for his height or some other problem he has? Dude is driving everyone around the office nuts.
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I fully support his actions. Have some empathy and be glad you're not 5'3"
If you are talking to him in a break room or someplace with high counters/tables, silently pick him up like he's a toddler, and set him on a high, flat surface, then say "that's better. I just thought we should be eye to eye if we're going to talk."
You could also just pretend not to see him when he's talking to you. Just scan the room side to side looking right over his head while saying "who's there? I can hear you, but I don't see you."
Ask him to loan you $10, as you're "a little short" this week.
I like to play with debt wrote:
Yet dude has a limp sweaty handshake and may even be gay.
Why are you afraid of gay men?
HardLoper wrote:
I fully support his actions. Have some empathy and be glad you're not 5'3"
Have some empathy and be glad you aren't as dumb as Hardloper. Did it occur to you that maybe some people are glad they are 5'3" and do not wish to be taller or shorter? Do you just walk around thinking that people are poor little sad cases because they aren't the height you are? Do you also feel bad for black people and tell others "be glad you're not black"?
He's a one-upper, and that's the most annoying thing. If someone asks what you did over the weekend, you say, oh, I went fishing. This dude will say he went spear fishing. I mean, where? Ocean's 500 miles away dude. No chance. What, he went spear fishing for perch? In the lake? He probably just went to McDonald's and ate a McFish or whatever. It's sooo tiring dealing with this little guy.
Karl Hungus wrote:
I like to play with debt wrote:Yet dude has a limp sweaty handshake and may even be gay.
Why are you afraid of gay men?
~20% of the violent crimes that people are in prison for relate to sexual deviance.
Bekele is 5'3
Nough said.
ElGuerroujggg wrote:
Bekele is 5'3
Nough said.
The issue isn't his height (at least for us). The issue is he's so self-conscious about it that he over-compensates by trying to be a tough guy, super macho, mr. cool, whatever.
Bekele doesn't strike me as being self-conscious.
ewwk wrote:
Have some empathy and be glad you aren't as dumb as Hardloper. Did it occur to you that maybe some people are glad they are 5'3" and do not wish to be taller or shorter?
Among men, no
HardLoper wrote:
ewwk wrote:Have some empathy and be glad you aren't as dumb as Hardloper. Did it occur to you that maybe some people are glad they are 5'3" and do not wish to be taller or shorter?
Among men, no
I used to be 5'3". It didn't bother me at all.
I like to play with debt wrote:
The issue isn't his height (at least for us). The issue is he's so self-conscious about it that he over-compensates by trying to be a tough guy, super macho, mr. cool, whatever.
Bekele doesn't strike me as being self-conscious.
How do you know he is self conscious about his height? What if it is something else? What if he is not self conscious at all? Isn't it possible that he really is tough guy, super macho, mr cool?
Or maybe he is just an annoying person. Why does it have to be about height?? There are tall people that act like that too.
Or maybe he is causing you to be self conscious. Is he making you feel insecure?
HardLoper wrote:
Among men, no
So everyone that you talk to must represent the entire population? Are you for real?
ewwk wrote:
HardLoper wrote:Among men, no
So everyone that you talk to must represent the entire population? Are you for real?
Pretty much, yeah. I suppose unicorns could exist and I just haven't talked to one, but I doubt it.
Call him "big guy"
Rustle his hair
Give him a sh*t eating grin whenever he talks, like you're amused
Put things up high in the break room
Stretch your hammy in front of him and bring your kneecap up to his face level
The OP is 4'11" but he doesn't overcompensate .
ewwk wrote:
I like to play with debt wrote:The issue isn't his height (at least for us). The issue is he's so self-conscious about it that he over-compensates by trying to be a tough guy, super macho, mr. cool, whatever.
Bekele doesn't strike me as being self-conscious.
How do you know he is self conscious about his height? What if it is something else? What if he is not self conscious at all? Isn't it possible that he really is tough guy, super macho, mr cool?
Or maybe he is just an annoying person. Why does it have to be about height?? There are tall people that act like that too.
Or maybe he is causing you to be self conscious. Is he making you feel insecure?
Yep. Donald Trump is like 6'2 but is insecure and constantly trying to brag and act macho. Nobody says he has tall man disease. Some people are just annoying. You might want to think about why you attribute it to some random physical attribute rather than just accepting that is who this individual is.