How do you deal with white co-workers and colleagues who act arrogant and dismissive? I work with an attorney who is white and has a dismissive, rude and nasty demeanor. He insinuates he wants to know where people are but he does show up on time or at all. He even insinuated he was a part of getting a para fired because he spent extra days away from office. I cringe when I have meetings. He lies and says he forgets things. How do you deal with this? I do document everything.

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That’s all you can do. Document everything. Also, you can call them out on their stuff in a professional manner and casually get on their nerves.

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