Narcissists at Work: Sure-Fire Ways to Deal with Them

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The workplace has no shortage of quirky characters:

🎓 The Pedant

🕊️ The Peacemaker

👐🏼 The Giver

🚌 The Bandwagoner

🎉 The Partier

🤑 The Freeloader

The Narcissist

But there’s one character that many have found to be the most difficult to handle: the narcissist.

Narcissists have an inflated sense of self-worth and crave excessive attention. They’re arrogant and lack empathy. They are far from being team players.

Worst of all, they are manipulative. The grandiose ones will bully, shame, and attack. The vulnerable ones gaslight and backbite.

Handling Narcissists at Work

When dealing with narcissists, most play it wrong.

One cannot out rage the grandiose narcissist. You can’t out bite the vulnerable narcissist.

Don’t waste your breath.

Instead, try this:

1️⃣   Decline to respond

2️⃣   Say the words “I don’t understand”

Works every time.

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