https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 30 May 2026 06:51:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582711 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:04:16 +0000 NerdBee 582711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would ignore her and continue being your awesome self. I think people like her get a kick out of lording it over people and will never ever concede that they are anything but right. It would be a waste of breath to argue with her. Your work will speak for itself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582552 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:21:39 +0000 MsLipGloss 582552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Show no fear and continue to do solid work. If you aren't prepared for a fight to the finish (and if your team members aren't 100% behind you), confrontation may actually increase the obnoxiousness because it will be taken as an an affront to her *authority* (so she will ramp up to keep everyone in line). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582535 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:17:05 +0000 mrbee 582535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: I might casually talk through your methodology with some of her team members though... just so that they see that you're approaching the project in a rigorous and thoughtful way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582533 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:16:29 +0000 blackbird 582533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ugh, what a piece of work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582531 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:16:03 +0000 MediaNaranja 582531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: @katiew92081: You guys are probably right....I guess I'll just have to kick butt on my portion of the project.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582462 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:00:56 +0000 Dandelion 582462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with @mrbee...just let her look like a jerk. Obviously other people see her doing these things, and you only have to put up with her for the rest of the semester. If it were a co-worker in a job that you plan on keeping for life, I would say something...but not for grad school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582443 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:56:31 +0000 mrbee 582443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: How are the members of her team taking her ranting and raving... are they buying into any of it?</p> <p>If not, then I might not say anything! She's only making herself look bad! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-deal-with-people-that-have-a-superiority-complex#post-582430 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:54:01 +0000 MediaNaranja 582430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I am in my last semester of grad school, and instead of a thesis, we have a capstone project, working with a client etc etc. There are about 30 of us in the class, and we've broken into smaller groups of 5-6 people to work on a single aspect of the project. Each small group has a leader that meets with the leaders of the other groups on a weekly basis to catch each other up, bounce ideas off one another, etc. For my group, I am that leader.</p> <p>The leader from another group thinks her work/aspect of the project is far superior to what we are doing. She does not hesitate to tell me that our portion of the project is simply "fluff" (simply because it is more qualitative than quantitative). Yesterday I was gossiping with a friend (I know, bad me) who is in her smaller group, and the gist of it is that she is always talking about how dumb we are, and how the work we are doing is the worst, ever, and how we should just hand our part of the project over to her because we are obviously incompetent and idiots and not nearly as good as her.</p> <p>I know that I should obviously say something, because this is an unacceptable attitude to have. We are in the same graduate program, have taken the same classes, so I don't know how she is any more qualified for this part of the project than my group members are. Unfortunately, I am a very non-confrontational person and these sorts of things are extremely difficult. Advice? I am normally a very calm, cool &amp; collected person, but this situation is making me really angry!! </p>