This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 156 with Echo Charles and me.

Jocko Willink got some questions from the troops.

First one, I'll be interested to see your assessment of the first one.

Yeah, let's get into it.

It goes hard. Okay.

First question.

I work in a role where I often make final decisions on business financing transactions.

I've worked in this role for three years playing a major part in turning the company around to the positive.

We have an internal sales team who work on commission of these transactions.

And I have the final say if they're approved or not and these decisions

are factually 100% up to discretion.

There's one team member in particular who it seems cannot handle adverse decisions and

goes out of the way to over the top, sorry, goes out of the way to be over the top disrespectful and insulting whenever there's a chance to speak to me without the sea level execs around.

Very small company.

Over three years, what started as simply crass has escalated to outright offensive.

Sexual jokes about my wife and two-year-old son outright just calling me a faggot and telling me fuck you. First thing in the morning.

Not leaving my office when asked and standing over my shoulder trying to make sure I'm skipping to his files.

I'm confident in my ability to physically defend myself.

Small guy with five years of jiu-jitsu training, not too

scary. However, as a guy doing a job in finance trying to support a soon-to-be family of four,

physical violence is not worth the risk, especially in the workplace, over somebody who is clearly

acting horribly and in the wrong. It took too long for me to formally complain about this

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