#14688
Sir Humphrey
Flatchatter

    I agree with Mr. Teys here. One of our owners would fit the description to some degree. She is not on the EC but send imperious edicts to the EC by email, CC’d to others who listen to her. Our chair has taken to dealing with this by picking just on thing in her emails that can be clearly demonstrated to be false, correcting her on that point, noting that there are many other inaccuracies and reminding her to be polite, all in a very brief email, CC’d to the same people she addressed. We tend hear much less from her since this approach was used. Previously we mistakenly gave her too much oxygen by engaging in debates with her or being outraged at ludicrous accusations. For some people, particularly the elderly, pointing out their bad manners is a far more effective censure than pointing out their errors of fact.