Misanthrope wrote:
Andy, it's far from a joke. It's powerplay. He's testing your ressolve.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
By you saying you wont fire him- you're showing that you're allowing him to get away with these kinds of extremely rude and disrespectful comments. So I disagree that if you fire him you're showing it gets to you.
If it happened to me, I would have been upset, thought about it, and if I didn't go backl ater that evening to get the guy off the job due to disrespect- I would probably been pissed off in the evening and then gotten rid of him the following day.
If he'd been even worse- I would most likely get my old "brotherhood" involved.
Ill go along with most of that a lil more animal then I like to think I am but a good point
Personally I would have laughed and said "go for it she doesn't like men with baby dicks" and tried to attack his insecurity and humiliate him
I'm pretty emotionally detached so I wouldn't have upset me that much (long story about my past which we don't have time for)
I say if it upsets you fire him, your happiness is what counts if its making you doubt things then remove the problem
but im with Misanthrope sounds like hes trying to be an Alpher male and assert his domance
(i dont know if i would go with reason or fource but thats another topic

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best of luck with your decition