If that doesn’t help, then just ignore them. Stop involving them in your decisions. Ask for forgiveness, not permission—and eventually don’t even bother asking for that. If you’re doing something valuable to the company and clearly worthwhile, then the asshole can yell or scheme all they want, but their hands will mostly be tied. Don’t be aggressive or unpleasant about it—just do your thing. Sometimes that can buy you enough time to complete your project in peace. Sometimes it can’t. After weeks of being ignored, after trying to cut me down in meeting after meeting, tiny slight after tiny
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