Trying not to get angry at co-worker

[Riverkilt]

I'm with Steve and Chas...cultural insensitivity and bullying are both way out of bounds if you work in a school.

Had I the power, I would give them a poker face and not react...let their "joke" fall flat, tell them, "I don't get it, explain what you mean."

When they mentioned my son I'd rare up with barely restrained anger and ask, "What are you saying about my boy?"

But that's past now. Time to up your frequency of kilt wearing.

There's also the most common two word response to an insult that can be delivered with firmness.

When the various local Highland Games come around, be sure he gets a copy of the flyers.

Steal his Ipod and put bagpipe music on it before letting him "find" it again.

Offer to share your oatmeal with him at breakfast.

Send him some photos of Sir Sean Connery kilted (easy to google up)

Drive him crazy. If you have access to his office take a large box of raisons and hide individual raisons every where creative you can think of. Sort of like an Easter egg hunt. Bottom of his coffee cup, in his jacket pocket, on a key of his keyboard. Doesn't hurt anything, but will drive him crazy wondering where all the raisons are coming from.

So many options when dealing with a social dunce.

Ron

[Mac Daibhidh]

...Had I the power, I would give them a poker face and not react...let their "joke" fall flat, tell them, "I don't get it, explain what you mean."...

Ron

I have to agree with Ron on this one... This has worked for me before.
It works best if there are more peers around. Just look at him dumbfounded... and "---what Ron said---" . Jokes are not nearly as funny when they have to be explained. Especially more than once.