It's pretty amazing just how petty people can be these days. They think they are taking some grand moral stance or something and in the end, they are just being so petty. I am probably the same way though. I had an email I need to respond to yesterday. It took me a good half hour to write three sentences. The first dozen attempts were rife with sarcasm and barbs. I still had to get one jab into my final email, but it was much tamer than my initial attempts. It made me feel better at the time, but it really doesn't last and in the end it probably just made me look like a jerk even though I had a good point and I was right. What kind of cost should we put on being right?
This is a good example and I think we've all written emails like that...which is why I never send them right away preferring to let them cool off and to have the time to rewrite. I think people that buy into this sort of behaviour, the little barbs of negativity with the thought of it actually improving their feeling of value, actually know they're irrelevant and probably hate themselves for it, and for knowing it's true.
Usually after the fact I definitely feel like I should have worded things differently. There are some people where I work that I am not willing to compromise with though. They deserve every little jab I give them because they are just that inept and somehow still have a job here.
Some people certainly do, I get it. I try to remind myself that they'll bring the sky down on their own heads but it's sometimes difficult not to be the harbinger of doom, just for the fun of it. Lol.
Believe it or not, I'm actually a lot better than I use to be. Scary to think!
Time and experience changes people I guess, for good or bad; I like to think it's the former for me. We're all just human though, and so quite flawed.