How to deal with a snooty coworker:?

At my place of employment, there is a girl who is very snobbish, tends to snap at others, and basically thinks her you-know-what doesn't stink. Better than everyone else. NO one likes her. Try and talk to her and she will ignore you or treat you as though you are lower than she. At times, she is rude towards customers and is actually the front receptionist. She gossips about employees, customers, and her life more than she works and makes it quite vocal, where everyone can hear her. It is offensive to people. We try and ignore her. Management will do nothing about it. Any suggestions on what to do with her??

This is probably one of the best questions I've seen since being on here. I totally understand your predictament. However, if management will do nothing, what about going above management? Are the other co-workers truly in agreement with you about her? Get a petition started with their signature and take it to management?
On the other hand, as one of your answerer's stated, ignore her. Do NOT let her get to you. Create a positive energy that will flow from you to the other employees and even to management. In turn, perhaps you'd become an inspiration to her into realizing what she's doing. One never knows when you focus on yourself, your thinking, the things you say, your way of reacting to things she's saying/doing, just what type of positive energy that will create. Turn it around to your advantage. Shrug off what she says and perhaps realize, as someone else said, "she has something in her life that she feels is a real hell for her...." and go about your own business. She sounds like someone with a huge chip on her shoulder and if everyone's reacting to her in a negative way, she'll keep reaping what she sows. But if everyone starts NOT reacting to her, she'll realize that what she's doing is not creating any type of feedback and she's not getting the "attention" she's obviously trying to get. She'll finally stop. It takes time and effort on everyone's part, especially yourself but it can be done and it can totally turn it around.
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This description is alot better than the scenarios where the person posing the question is singularly annoyed by someone in the office, but not necessarily others. If I was in your situation, it may be apparent that I have no power to change anything, but at least it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one that wishes her to be devoured by a deep hole somewhere. So in that sense, I'd say there's nothing realistically you can do except concentrate on your work and not give anyone good cause to complain of your own work product. In time, the other lady may engineer her own departure.

When I work around people like that I actually make a mental 'plan' that takes into account that on each day, that other annoying person will do something or say something that is aggravating, so I must expect it, know to tolerate it or ignore it, and not be caught off guard about something that is in reality predictable day after day.

You can ignore her.
Be sickeningly sweet to her.
Play office politics and see if you can find her in something that she can be fired for.

I can't say which is better--- she may hang herself, or management may keep her. She is probably frustrated in her own hell and is just taking it out on others.

hey!

I have a girl I work with and she is about 6 years younger than me. She was promoted to manager at the age of 19. She thinks she is so cool, we started at this firm roughly the same time. I have tried my best with her, but up until lately she has been rude, snobby and not very understanding. But I am not sure, lately, I have been pushing really hard to work for the company, selling my butt off and providin g good customer service. She has been nicer within the last month. I suggest you pray for her. 'Cause no one can fix someone's attitude like that without God's help. Anyway, be yourself, don't let her get you down, and always, always..... do your best to be humble. The moment someone like that sees that you want to buck against her, is when she will try her best to start stuff with you and you don't need that. A line from my son's favorite movie, madagascar "Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave."
Good luck, God bless, have a great day.

I have the same problem only this girl is gay. When ever she feels like it she will call us names use profanity whatever again nothing is done. The best advice is to remember the old saying "You can kill a person with kindness."So be nice to her sooner or later she will come around.Ignoring her will just make her day.