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dealing with condescending behaviours

Author: Claire
Date: 2007-07-24 04:31

I have a huge problem that has been plaguing me for about the last 4 years now. These incidents don't happen all of the time. In fact, the person in question can be quite nice sometimes. But every once in a while, at the most inappropriate times, this person will come up with the most condescending remarks. And I know that it's just to make her feel better about herself too. As a matter of fact, I think it would be impossible to say that at some point in our musical careers we come across this attitude. We musicians can be an insecure bunch. What I'm asking for is suggestions on how to get this horrible condescending behaviour to stop. Maybe even tell stories of what you've done to counter this same behaviour. I might also add that this person at one point was a public school music teacher and she always feels the need to take charge and talk down to us whenever we have a woodwind quintet rehearsal, like we've all come to bask in her intelligence. It's been 4 years of this same frustration at having to deal with this behaviour and something has got to give. Any suggestions that you have would be most appreciated.

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