Yes it does . I ' m fairly fluent in French and the V is definitely an important part of the pronunciation . <| sep |> Here is what you do , you excel at work and do what you are paid to do . You work on yourself and maximize your social skills to where other coworkers that are not him are somewhat looking up to you or being friendly with you . If other coworkers are being nice to you , you be nice to them and keep it cool . Get rid of the anger for now and just do as I have said so far . Now eventually , he will come back around and either try to 1 Do the same thing again in which case , doesn ' t matter , other coworkers know you are not low value and will likely dismiss him for it . 2 Try to latch on to you or associate with you , in which you let him down gently and don ' t associate with him .