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Title: Can you help me with how to deal with that person? [Print]

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-14 20:51
Title: Can you help me with how to deal with that person?
This person is one of my colleagues. He is an outgoing and funny person who often creates some relax atomsphere and make us laugh. So he is quite popular among us. However, he has two bad habits that i cannot bear. One is that he is a smoker. He is the only person who is smoking in the office. No matter how many times we complain about him, it doesn't make a difference to him. The other is that he often borrow something from me but never remember giving it back to me. When he takes something, he seems to be the owner. If i want to get it back, i have to " borrow" it from him. Especially when he said that he would be sure to give it back to me the next day, when tomorrow is coming, he can not keep his promise, which makes me mad. And he has had my memory stick for several months, most of time he doesn't use it cause he leaves it at home, which makes me crazy.
So when you have such this colleague, how can you cope with or get along with him?

Author: Justina8023 Time: 2010-9-15 00:11
If those things were important to me, I would be driven crazy.
However, if you think he is a good guy and worth making friends with, just tell him your feelings and make agreement with him, saying the deadline he should give back to you.

Author: Eileenzhang Time: 2010-9-15 01:51
Can borrow something from him and don't return it. Let him try his own poison. That will not work?

Author: jollity2002 Time: 2010-9-15 11:59
What a terrible thing to have such colleague!
But you can tell him your suggestions for his bad habbits and help him to get rid of them!
Then he will thank you and maybe become your friend!Hehe....

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-15 21:43

Justina8023: If those things were important to me, I would be driven crazy.
However, if you think he is a good guy and worth making friends with, just tell him yo

However i have mentioned this thing for many times, it seems that this way doesn't work. In the eyes of ours, he is always forgetting something and an forgettable person. When he meets me, he says with smiling,&quot; don't worry, you'll get it tomorrow.&quot;

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-15 21:45

Eileenzhang: Can borrow something from him and don't return it. Let him try his own poison. That will not work?

Huh, a good way to remind him of returning something. Now we are not at the same office. It is not easy to find him by calling him.

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-15 21:47

jollity2002: What a terrible thing to have such colleague!
But you can tell him your suggestions for his bad habbits and help him to get rid of them!
Then he will

Not only i but also my other colleagues persuade him to give up somking. He can stand the pressure from ours and do what he likes doing.

Author: jollity2002 Time: 2010-9-16 10:39

2010jj: Not only i but also my other colleagues persuade him to give up somking. He can stand the pressure from ours and do what he likes doing.

What a terrible thing!

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-16 17:13

jollity2002: What a terrible thing!

Just now I met him by chance on my way hom. He smiled to me as soon as he saw me and told me that he felt so sorry to forget it and promised to return it. I have no choice but to wait.

Author: Ivy_Chen Time: 2010-9-17 10:19
Maybe just like your words, he is a so forgetable person or he is busy or some other reasons, but do not only remember one's shortage, but also the man's strongpoints. He is a popular and outgoing person, he always make you and your colleagues laugh. He brings the happiness to you, but you treat him as a terrible man, then he will be hearted. Have a try to change your attitude and maybe he will return better back to you.

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-17 11:52

Ivy_Chen: Maybe just like your words, he is a so forgetable person or he is busy or some other reasons, but do not only remember one's shortage, but also the ma

Thanks for your advice. Something is not very important for me but it is useful for me. However, keeping it for several monthes is not a good habit.

Author: Ivy_Chen Time: 2010-9-17 14:18
whatever, may you have a good relationship with the people round you

Author: flybrother Time: 2010-9-18 13:51
I think asking him to write a IOU is good idea next time.

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-18 14:28

Ivy_Chen: whatever, may you have a good relationship with the people round you

Thank you.

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-18 14:29
That sounds great!

Author: jollity2002 Time: 2010-9-20 10:10

2010jj: Just now I met him by chance on my way hom. He smiled to me as soon as he saw me and told me that he felt so sorry to forget it and promised to return

Oh!
That sounded a good thing!

Author: chaijenna Time: 2010-9-26 15:45
i will not borrow him anything anymore!

Author: 2010jj Time: 2010-9-26 17:11

chaijenna: i will not borrow him anything anymore!

that's right!

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