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Erica wrote:

How should one go about treating the, “Not-So-Funny-Person- Who-Thinks-They-Are” kind of people??

I have a person that I work with who falls under this category… laughing at their own jokes and what not. Making ridiculous comments that aren’t relevant or even remotely funny.

I have put up with this person for going on 7 months now but they are starting to bug me… patience is growing thin.

What do I do?

Thanks

You may want to kill him.

I know it may seem drastic. But let’s be reasonable. This guy isn’t going away on his own.

Due to the legal ramifications and possible jail time (its getting harder and harder for minors to commit murder) I’d suggest a tactful approach.

The most feasible tactic would be accidental. If this person was accidentally not alive that would serve the purpose right?

But that does leave us with the oh-so unsightly “manslaughter” problem. Therefore, it would be advisable to pursue a Darwin angle. The Darwin angle would mean this kid takes himself out.

I can see this going two ways.

First, there is murder-made-to-look-like-self-inflicted-accident. A good example would be sledding into a frozen lake which breaks through and subsequent attempts by yourself to assist in rescue tragically fail.

Being that you’re from Arizona, that would be difficult.

The other option, and I might add, much more legal, but not necessarily free of moral strife. Is the statistical encouragement of mortal accident.

This would require quite the sacrifice on your part. As it would require your befriending the person, which in and of itself requires a significant amount of time. Not to mention saturating your immediate personal space with his own, which is pointed out to the be reason for this all in the first place.

The idea is that once you are spending time with this person, you encourage activities which could result in death. Thus drastically increasing the statistical possibility of this persons death.

A huge risk in this plan is that you may gain an understanding of why this person is so annoying, and end up liking him. You really need to be careful of this.

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