Dealing with back stabbing nasty people.

[T.H. Oughts]

How often we have to deal with someone in a committee or social group that is a bitch and will stab someone in the back for no real reason or just complains for the sake of it.

For the last 10 years I have put up with an elderly woman who has knifed me thousands of time because she could not handle that fact that someone her daughters age might know the same or more than her in the Art World.

So many times I have wanted to let fly and tell her that she is a nasty rude person with only spiteful bones in her body. But a friend told me years ago with people like her.. "Give her enough rope and she will hang herself."

Well it has taken 10 years but last night she hung herself good and proper. I feel sooooo good that everything has come back the bite her in the ass now without me having to stoop down to her level.

What goes round comes around they say.....

I have always stood up for myself but never played the nasty political games.

So which are you? Do you let them hang themselves or do you knife them back????

 

[IrishWolfhound]

I don't knife back. I just help them over the edge once they have walked into my carefully laid noose.

 

[Wiggles]

I guess I would be in the 'giving them more rope' category.

I try to let it slide off my back, and assert myself if needed.

Life's too short...

 

[penguindance]

 

[metal_minx]

she's elderly..she'll be dead soon, dont worry about it.

 

[Guest]

What goes around, comes around. I too wait for them to hang themselves, then I revel in the outcome.

I could tell you stories, but I have one sorta like yours. I enjoyed watching this one woman have to eat her own shit.

Moon

 

[T.H. Oughts]

she's elderly..she'll be dead soon, dont worry about it.

ha! They tried to tell me that 10 years ago, lol

 

[truegentleman]

I let them do it to themselves, and they always do.

That way I can look at myself in the mirror and not feel bad.

 

[AnnaB]

I have been dealing with this for the last several months in my office...mostly I get by dreaming of ways to make them suffer but in the end I just sit back and watch them bite the dust.

One down...three to go!

 

[NoRegrets]

I have always stood up for myself but
never played the nasty political games.

So which are you? Do you let them hang
themselves or do you knife them back????

I refuse to play because every second spent thinking
about an issue like this is time lost from my life. As a
Non-Profit board member this comes up regularly.
Initially it is infuriating but people like this never seem
to give up until they have screwed themselves into
oblivion. I have never seen anyone win in the long
run with these tactics, I say, don't stoop to their level.

 

[Laurel]

I let them hang themselves. The time spent playing their silly games is time better spent doing other things. Of course, I make sure I never turn my back to them.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

Re: Re: Dealing with back stabbing nasty people.

Initially it is infuriating but people like this never seem
to give up until they have screwed themselves into
oblivion.

It makes you wonder how these people treat their families. If they play the mental/verbal abuse game with them also.

 

[The Squid King]

Patience is the key...

...to stabbing someone in the back a million times worse than they got you.

 

[hatara]

My grandmother always said God will get them better than you ever could. Someone hurts you just wait it will come back at them. She has never been wrong.

 

[lisalove]

I'm usually shocked when people behave like that. I would never stoop to the same level simply because it invites negativity into your own life. The strange thing is, I would wish for them to 'hang themselves' but then when they actually did I would feel sorry for them.

Man am I ever fucked up.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I don't stab them in the back or let them hang themselves.

I stab them in the chest in front of all and sundry over and over again until I've proven that I'm right and that this person is the scum of the earth. Or they give in, whichever comes first. I'm a just a tidge agressive sometimes.

We should all be like you, Lisa. Your way is much better than mine.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[markb325]

Since I can keep my temper hidden when I have too. I prefer to let people hang themselves. That way I don't have to do any of the work.

 

[IrishWolfhound]

I don't stab them in the back or let them hang themselves.

I stab them in the chest in front of all and sundry over and over again until I've proven that I'm right and that this person is the scum of the earth. Or they give in, whichever comes first. I'm a just a tidge agressive sometimes.

We should all be like you, Lisa. Your way is much better than mine.

Making a note that Killer Muffin has some real anger management issues.

 

[lisalove]

[BWe should all be like you, Lisa. Your way is much better than mine. [/B]

Awww that's so sweet (wiping a lil' tear from my eye).

Your way is more entertaining though.

 

[Ice Cold]

I let them hang themselves,,, but I am the one who ties the hangmans noose.... then while they are dangling... I use the friggin knife....

"OOOOHHHH THAT'S GOTTA HURT!!!"

 

[metal_minx]

ha! They tried to tell me that 10 years ago, lol

'-/ well shes 10 years closer to croaking

 

[427cobra]

somtimes letting people dig themselves in a hole is good, but i never find it to be satisfying. start by putting crazy glue in all their car locks and go from there. i like to be proactive.

 

[metal_minx]

somtimes letting people dig themselves in a hole is good, but i never find it to be satisfying. start by putting crazy glue in all their car locks and go from there. i like to be proactive.

good one...and a potato in the exhaust pipe

 

[427cobra]

minx, a potato? it lacks style, i always go for the bananna. the you put nails in front of and back of all 4 tires. crazy glue the ignition. pour coke or pepsi all over the paint job....