How To Use Etiquette To Help You Deal With The Office Whiner Or Pessimist

How can etiquette help me deal with the office whiner or pessimist?

Etiquette can help you deal with the Office pessimists who are in every office. There's someone who always sees the glass half empty. They're a little bit like the sarcastic so we need to just leave them alone. You cannot argue with anyone who's sarcastic, and you cant argue with a pessimist. Even though its their negative way of trying to get attention and a response, to irk you, to build your ire, to pull out the worst in you, if you ignore them then there's no way they can engage you. So the etiquette I employ is I stay on the edge of rapport with people that are both sarcastic and blunt in the office, and people that are negative and pessimistic or who complain a lot. I wont listen. And again, I'll either angle my body to be out of rapport with them, just slightly, or I'll look away when they're speaking and then walk away. We teach people how to treat us, and the people who complain most about this are people who don't understand how to be on the edge of rapport. So please, try some things without resorting to saying anything. Just walk away, leave the office pessimist alone as that's what they want, so let them have it.