People who don't listen are very annoying.

people like that have zero self-awareness.
ignore the ee-dee-yitt...

How to be a good listener?

The best way to deal with people like that is to pass gas. Copiously.

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Say what?

Listen, let me "splain" to ya what's really goin' on here . . .

Typically, in situations like these, I employ the cock-punch.

Care. That's all.

That about sums up my boss. His universe is himself, the all-important, irreplaceable, extraordinarily wise, funny, and good man without whom the world would stop turning.

Kicky, nice thing about being retired is not having to put up with that kind of garbage anymore. I hope he isn't a boss, that makes it worse.

I spent twenty years as a shop steward in my company negotiating with managment about "personality conflicts" between employee and employee, employer and employee. The list of infractions and variations is endless.

I don't know to what degree you have to deal with this guy on a daily basis, but the bottom line is you don't have control over what other people think, say or do to you in the office unless you want to get yourself into trouble. You only have control over what you think, what you say and what you do. If you are in a position to distance yourself, do so. To wit, your employer is just looking for a days work for a days pay. Do not feed into conflict in the workplace. It's a losing situation.

Just develop a thicker skin. (I should talk, I am so thin-skinned sometimes I'm transparent).

Don't let him get your Italilan up gumba.

Re: People who don't listen are very annoying.

No. This guy's definition of "listening" is "the period of time before I can talk again."

I can buy a multi-year supply of beans for $525.

Thank GOD he isn't a boss. He just thinks he is. He's one of these people that get all puffed up by any positive feedback he gets at work, and even stuff that isn't positive. If they give him a tough job to do, he tells me how they wouldn't give that to just anyone, it's only because they know how good he is that HE got that job. If they tell him they want him to work overtime, he says how he must really be valuable for them to ask him to do that.

He's just another freelance production artist like the other five or six of us, but somehow he's convinced himself that he's the SENIOR freelance production artist and that this imaginary title gives him some kind of superiority over the rest of the people here. What a dickhead. I used to sit right next to him. Thank god they moved me. But he still comes over to tell me how great he is a couple times a day. He is delusional about his talents, skills, and other people's perceptions thereof. Amazing. Other than that, he's a great guy.

Maybe I'll try that cock punch thing.

Re: People who don't listen are very annoying.


Exactly.

This guy's definition of "listening" is "the period of time before I can talk again" - so true.

A lot of us do that some of the time, but catch ourselves at it and curb the behavior. If it's a continuous thing, the guy has messed up social monitoring, a tin ear, a vast trough of low self esteem he's trying to self-improve, or is a complete dickhead.

The last Art Director I worked under was the type that when you ask a simple question, like "What color should this wall be?", she would talk and talk and never really answer. I hated that.

I once had an immediate boss who just never ever shut up. Very trying. What he said was interesting enough, and was occasionally work related, but it was hard to have any of your own mind-time. To me he was like a precocious five year old.

I didn't know we worked at the same place! My boss exactly. To make it worse I am training him how to be the manager (I am the assistant, new to this store but not the company). Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to have to teach your boss and have him be the worst listener in the world?!

"Yes you did this wrong again...yes I did show you how to do it before, in fact several times before"....SIGH

Sounds terrible, but I still think it's better to work for an idiot than a psychopath. At least you have a possibility to manipulate your idiot to your advantage.

I spent some time working with an unlistening psyco.
I'd be trying to show her what we were doing, and she'd be talking.
You had a be blunt to get her attention. LISTEN! WATCH!
But it would only last a minute and she'd be back to talking.
With patience, on my part, she could learn.

And then there were the times she'd turn psyco...
No talking to her then.

The last day she worked, she went off on the boss, I tried to interject and stop her, but she was all loud and said "I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU!".
I listened to her dig her own hole. (We were trapped in the car with her, going to location. She asked to be dropped at her house. No problem. Bye. Four days til the end of a show.)