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Passive aggressive

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Are passive aggressives drawn to permiedom, or does permiedom turn you passive aggressive?

In psychology, passive-aggressive behavior is characterised by a habitual pattern of passive resistance to expected work requirements, opposition, stubbornness, and negativistic attitudes in response to requirements for normal performance levels expected of others. Most frequently it occurs in the workplace where resistance is exhibited by such indirect behaviors as procrastination, forgetfulness, and purposeful inefficiency, especially in reaction to demands by authority figures, but it can also occur in interpersonal contexts.

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I love passive aggressive people. It's sooooooooooo easy to rip it out of them.

In a team meeting for example :

PM : So, Suity where are we with XYZ

Suity : No change since last week. I'm still waiting on DimPrawn to deliver XXX to me.

DimPrawn : Yep I've been really busy.

Suity : Sure you have <passive aggressive smile>

DimPrawn : What are you implying?

Suity : Nothing, I respect the fact that you are busy so I've been keeping it down to only sending you one chase email per hour. <passive agressive smile><Glinting teeth>

:D
 

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