Reply #92: Make sure you alienate the few world leaders who don't despise you yet [View All]

[klook]

Almost got an elbow in the nuts in the process. Good one, fratboy!

A couple of decades ago I worked with a woman who, in the middle of the floor in a large room with a few co-workers around, was grabbed from behind by this extreme creep who was one of the head honchos of the company. He apparently thought his third lunchtime martini had transformed him from a slimy, dandruff-shouldered, middle-aged putz into an irresistible Lothario. He thought he could get away with it because there were a bunch of people around, and tried to pass it off as a playful gesture. Totally unintimidated, without missing a beat in her conversation, my colleague instinctively gave him a hard elbow jab to the ribs. He grabbed his stomach, said "Oof!" and everybody laughed at him.

She was one of the coolest and sharpest people working in that hellish establishment, and went on to a great career. The creep who grabbed her is almost certainly dead by now.