How do you feel about...

[MarciKS]

How do you feel about people who are too bossy and tend to scold other adults as if they're children?

 

[robin416]

The great thing about being an adult is that I can choose not to be around those people.

 

[That Lady in PA]

If the adults ARE behaving like children, they should be scolded... or avoided.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I don’t do well with lectures or condescending attitudes.

I can almost guarantee that you may win the battle but you won’t win the war.

 

[Lewkat]

Do you really want me to answer this? It won't be pretty.

 

[oldman]

Time to walk away.

Does that answer your question?

 

[moviequeen1]

I got so angry once at this person, who I didn't; particularly like, I had the nerve to say' Who died and made you Queen' She was not pleased by what I said,I walked away.

 

[Bella]

How do you feel about people who are too bossy and tend to scold other adults as if they're children?

Not good. "Do not talk to me like that. If you don't like what I'm doing or how I'm doing it, talk to me politely, or you'll wind up doing it yourself."

 

[MarciKS]

I myself don't care to be bossed around or scolded like a child just because someone doesn't like something I did or likes to feel like they are in power when they have none.

It tends to tick me off. I often feel like they should mind their own business.

 

[IrishEyes]

I feel sad for them

 

[officerripley]

Ah, yes, the "alphas" of the world, sigh. There are some who love bossing around others because it's fun; there are those who really believe that they are smarter than anyone else they've ever met and if everyone would just do what they say, the world'd be a better place. The ones I've known seem to have been born that way.

 

[KSav]

I haven't run into this sort of behavior personally—yet—but when I do, I doubt it will end well. I hate to be patronized.

 

[KSav]

Ah, yes, the "alphas" of the world, sigh. There are some who love bossing around others because it's fun; there are those who really believe that they are smarter than anyone else they've ever met and if everyone would just do what they say, the world'd be a better place. The ones I've known seem to have been born that way.

I actually saw a t-shirt for sale the other day online, I'm not sure if it was supposed to be satirical or not, but it read "I Have a PhD: Let's Just Assume I'm Right."

I'm not even sure I'd engage with someone wearing that.

 

[officerripley]

I'm not even sure I'd engage with someone wearing that.

Same here.

 

[That Lady in PA]

I actually saw a t-shirt for sale the other day online, I'm not sure if it was supposed to be satirical or not, but it read "I Have a PhD: Let's Just Assume I'm Right."

Ugh...

 

[MarciKS]

I wouldn't engage either.

My father was a "know it all" & extremely bossy. Would scold me over petty crap.

I get scolded at work by some of the older gals. I don't feel like anyone has the right to scold me when I'm damn near 60 yrs old.

 

[WheatenLover]

I brighten right up! Gleeful times ahead, intimidating the rude for fun.

 

[Jazzy1]

I don't engage with people like that.

 

[JBR]

Do you really want me to answer this? It won't be pretty.

Mm... maybe it would be best if you just let it out, Lewcat?

 

[JBR]

I haven't experienced this overly bossy type of person much in my adult life. Just a couple of people I can think back to when I was working in a job or two, many years before I retired.

Back when I was plagued by that situation, it led me to self inquiry. I sought to pinpoint how I could improve, and doing that was usually good for me. But if I saw that a certain person was hyperciritcal with all those around him, and grumped his way through the day — then I seemed to figure out and make use of ways to work around him. It came down to succeed at that, or quit the job.

One such individual confessed to me (in rare a moment of humility) that he'd never done anything to make his parents proud. So I believe that, usually, the "too bossy" type is either truly frustrated in his/her life, or is just control oriented and somewhere on the narcissistic spectrum.