So there's this guy at my company that I have to work with now and then, whenever training is involved. He's retired Army and well, he's short and well, he ummm... well, let's just say that I've sensed a Napoleon complex about the guy for quite some time now.

The course he designed rolled out the same time as mine. I received an email from the Executive VP (that's pretty high on the totem pole, in case you didn't know) of HR complementing me on my course. She had the misfortune of CCing Napoleon as well as his manager (who is not in my hierarchy).

I swear, it took him no less than 2 minutes to reply all BLASTING my course and saying that he didn't do what she specifically complimented me on because he thinks it's bad form.

WOW.

I decided that the best thing to do in this case was to just thank her (reply all- tee hee) for the compliment and let her know that if she would like to know how to do this for next year's training, I'd be happy to help, pretending that I hadn't read Napoleon's email yet.

She wrote back (and replied all) complimenting me on something else, and I'd guess it was to show Napoleon that he wasn't getting anywhere with his hissy fit.

I guess his Mama didn't teach him that cutting other people down is NOT a good career move. I've seen him do this before to someone else and was kind of amazed.

I think the icing on the cake was that he emailed me on Friday and asked me if I'd help him on another course he's working on. I'm not even in his department and this course has nothing to do with my department.

Can you guess what my response was?

If you guessed that I opted out, claiming I was very busy (which isn't a lie) you'd be correct.

Sorry Napoleon, you're on your own.