How to Deal with Associate with ZERO Social Skills
As the title suggests, I work under an associate with zero social skills and it’s been quite jarring.
- resorts to calling out peoples mistakes in a group email rather than 1v1
- responds to emails not addressed to them (when team is cc’ed for awareness) w/o communicating with the original addressee
- constantly has surprise deadlines that they never communicated about
- resorts to passive aggression or running to VP to give feedback about analysts even though they ask directly and they say nothing
- doesn’t acknowledge anyone/ join the conversation when joining group dinners
This person is great at their individual work product but lacks a lot of social skills which makes for awkward encounters. Unfortunately I can’t get staffed with someone else. What should I do?
I've had this exact same experience. I don't have a great answer but I can tell you what I tried to do, and with the benefit of hindsight, to make the situation bearable. I'll probably sound like a jackass with some of these points but it's all in the spirit of self-preservation.