Recently joined industry: what to do when a consultant (who's been on the program long enough) is very entitled and rude to you? He caught me off guard and I don't want to act unprofessional to him but his behavior made me feel bad.

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Use your former consultant frame of mind.

What would scare you the most if you were a consultant who was rude to someone on the client side? Then do that to them 😈.

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Perhaps I need to give more details: so he has been working on the workstream for a while and I am a new client; I set up a call to discuss potential areas of improvement and he joined the call late, he immediately asks "who are you and why am I here", then he becomes really defensive and won't let me finish with my rationale. I mean understood if you are doing an awesome job and no area of improvement, then again you have to also let me do my job and we can all have a nice conversation and conclusion, no need to be rude

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Unacceptable. Call him out and tell his manager/leadership

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Complain to their leadership. There’s no excuse for people to be rude to others at work. It’s just a job.

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What did he do? Is it something that shouldn’t go unmentioned

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Holy moly, he's supposed to be working for you. Unacceptable to act any way but professional with a client. You could talk to him directly, but I would escalate to the manager on the project. He needs to either shape up or roll off.

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Being rude to clients is interesting. I have seen some Consultants act that way because they were part of the meetings/lunches with your bosses and add longevity feel like they have more leverage than employees and for some reason entitled for that behavior. If I were you will give him work at 5 PM and weekends make an unreasonable ask and prove he is not worth a dime :) use that and ask for a roll off with his boss

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Lunge at him on the next Zoom call

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Find where he lives and harass gin, obviously

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Leave gin alone, it's the only thing I can look forward to at 5PM 🥺

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Literally just tell his leadership

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