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female
age
36-40,
anonymous
writes:One of my male coworkers has recently made it his mission to find all these different ways of annoying me. Whether its trying to distract me and make me falter while I'm on the phone to clients, teasing me about how he always gets out on time on the late nights that he works (for some reason every other night that he doesn't work is hellish) and among other things he likes to try to pick fights with me.I must mention that there is a fair age gap between us (at least 15+), though he has mentioned that he sees me as an intellectual peer on more than one occasion. I'm confused as to why a mature-aged man would act like a little boy around me though!On another note, my colleagues have referred to he and I as sounding like an "old married couple", in reference to a particular event where we were bickering over a task I was assisting him with. Once the comment had been made both he and I fell silent.Urgggggh just what does he want?
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reader, TEM  +, writes (2 April 2011):
 Oh, he's one of those guys. I've worked with a few of them. It's a power thing. The first time he was out of line you needed to put him in his place. I imagine you didn't because you didn't want to make waves in the workplace. That happens.
However, he is still overstepping the bounds of a coworker relationship. You have to ignore him. If you react you will just feed into his bad behavior. He's getting something out of getting a reaction out of you. Don't give him one. Once you are no longer fun, he won't want to play.
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