What's the wildest level of passive aggression that you've ever seen?

Me talking to a client.

Listen, I can do this for you, but you're behind on your invoices.

You really need to get caught up.

Well, how much do I owe you?

Well, including the last job, it's $1,500.

Okay, well, I'm confident we can get that to you by the end of the week.

Three weeks later, hi, just following up to'm confident we can get that to you by the end of the week. Three weeks later,

Hi, just following up to see where we are on that payment. No response from the client. Two weeks later, they write to me. Hello, our site is down. Can you get it back up for us? I'm confident

I can get it back up by the end of the week.

Long time ago in my first managerial position, I had a boss who got angry at me for somewhat ridiculous reasons. I was trying to plan out a potential project with one of my staff

members and my boss overheard us. He assumed we were going to skip other work to get this

request done when, in fact, avoiding

that was exactly why I was having the meeting. At any rate, he came in and absolutely dressed

me down in front of my project guy. After shift change, I went to his office and he told me he didn't

want me to make any decisions without running them past him first. So, for the next week, literally every decision I made, I paged him first.

Like, can Tom take his break half an hour early?

Or, could Sally have extra supplies?

One week later, he blew up at my co-supervisor at a staff meeting saying,

Seriously, you all need to be able to make some decisions yourselves.

So, my passive-aggressive response worked just fine.

I live in a house with thin walls and squeaky floors.

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