On jerks at work

I thought this article had some good advice on dealing with jerky colleagues.

I particularly like this bit:

What if you have to sit near the sleaze?

There are mind tricks to protect your soul — ways for the situation to be less upsetting to you even though you can’t change it. My favorite is a guy at Stanford who pretends that he’s a doctor who studies “a-hole-ism.” When he sees these people in meetings, he pretends that it’s a privilege to be able to see such a rare specimen. It’s a sort of detachment — pretending you’re a doctor, just observing.

and plan to give it a go at my next meeting.