Originally Posted by
MLD51 
Bim - I suppose you're right about not stooping to their level. I wish I could do a happy medium, though. Remain calm, and say something along the lines of "if you continue on in that tone I will turn around and walk away. We can discuss this civilly at another time if that works better for you." I can never seem to do that.
Ha! I don't say that, but I do walk away. Doesn't matter who it is, if it triggers my "tharn" reaction, I'm out of there. No explanation.
I did that with my ex-boss repeatedly. She would keep talking to my back. My problem was that her office and mine abutted and no one else was in that wing, so if she was anxious I was the first person with "underling" as a descriptor in her orbit.