Confronting impossible people (In life and business)
HeyLaughingBoy: My initial reaction on hearing that would probably have been to scream "are you fucking stupid?" at him. But I have a very low tolerance for that kind of behavior and luckily have learned to suppress that type of response :-)Besides, if people really are leaving the door open in the morning, that won't solve anything. Talk to him and find out who's leaving the door open and you can all three sit down and figure out what leads to that happening.Most things domestic have simple solutions once the underlying problem is discovered.As far as dealing with passive-aggressive behavior in general, I find that being polite, but firm generally gets the behavior to stop. What you don't want to do is yell at them like I said above, since that just causes them to shut down temporarily then go back to doing the same thing.