This would be worse for me...it would drive me nuts to work with someone that hyper-sensitive. Constant tears and crying fits would annoy me so much.

I could handle her rude comments...in fact, if I was her boss/supervisor, I might even tell her that they were inappropriate and that she should stop commenting on my personal life.

I'm snarky sometimes, too... so if she just got rude when she was flustered, I'd probably just put her in her place. But I couldn't handle someone who was always crying.

I can't deal with overly-sensitive people. It wears me out, and then I become super insensitive toward them. Don't like to be put in that position!

oh, i hit that, and i meant to hit this...

I'm totally with emalove - Someone being that sensitive would be very hard handle because it would be hard to deal with constructively (she's probably cry harder if you discussed it) and it makes you the bad guy. On the other hand if she's rude under stress you can discuss that and poossibly deal with it plus its her seeming unreasonable not you!

I'm actually undecided on this one. I've known of a boss who is a rude, arrogant, over-demanding, power-tripping b*tch that she made her subordinate of six months cry one day for the first time. I wouldn't call the girl who cried overly-sensitive. She worked hard, was always eager to please and always accepting criticism without contest. I actually hated that lady who was her boss. She had a 'all about me me me' personality as if the world revolved around her.

Oops, picked the wrong one there.
I'd definitely rather have her be insensitive than overly sensitive... not only are overly sensitive people really annoying (and I say this as a person who tears up over EVERYthing), but her reactions would reflect badly on me and could possibly affect my position as supervisor. Rudeness is just rudeness, though, and I could always call her on being inappropriate. (And not let slip any details of my personal life.)

I can deal with a bit** just fine.

I'd go for that. If she got snarky and made comments about my personal life, then as her manager, I'd have every right to take her in my office and have a chat with her.

With the overly sensitive, it's far more difficult to deal with the problem. Plus, they tend to be very manipulative. The insensitive are just that- a bit socially clueless.

I think "that" would be alot easier to handle becuase if they give you attitude, your their boss so you can get attitude right back or to make things easier just fire them.

There's No Crying In Baseball!

At least when she's snarky, you could snark right back. Someone balling all the time would cause me to

If she started personally attacking me then I could fire her ass. GONE. B!tch.

Oversensitive is me, I know and am aware I can be hypersensitive, to emalove, there is a known disability called Dyspraxia and one of the major signs of this neurological condition is crying for no reason, yet I can sarky as well and gotten into trouble.

My initial thought it maybe this girl has this learning disability and should get checked out for it, or even for dyslexia. I just have a feeling this girl has a possible learning disability, I know from my own experience, there are time when you don't declare you are suffering from this condition as you are often stigmatized, it's hard enough feeling like a dunce!

I ask the girl in confidence if he has had a learning disability/problem and if/not she may be hiding something else.

I was 22 when I was diagnosed with my problem, some people may take longer and the worst thing, you can't tell that you have a problem by looking at them.

I can handle someone making rude remarks about my personal life by putting her in her place but what i cannot handle is an overly sensitive person.It's exhausting......

I can handle crying but I would not want her saying rude things about me. At least her crying is not personal whereas her comments would be. Either way I'd tell her to get her act together because you don't like working with her (since you are her boss).