My douchey new coworker has interrupted me more times than I can count and speaks on every topic like heās the world authority on Everything. I am trying to reign my feelings in at merely disliking him rather than full on loathing but itās a struggle.
One of the ways Iām doing this is by venting small conversational potshots at him. On the topic of coffee he was saying someone make a joke about him having an elaborate order. I quipped, āYeah, I can see it. You have the mannerisms of someone with a fussy coffee order.ā
He stiffly informed me he drinks black coffee.
Later he told me and another lady who he was only speaking to because there was no other guys on shift yet, āYeah I drink two energy drinks a day.ā This was delivered in the cadence of a brag which baffled both of us.
She said, āYour poor liver.ā
He shrugged and said, āI just have a higher tolerance than most people.ā
āI think thatās what alcoholics say,ā I snipped and his mouth went flat. He would go on to inform us he once spent $2000 on dinner and we were both wildly unimpressed to his vexation.
