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GAP is a term I have coined and it stands for Guy or a Girl with Attitude Problem. Here is a management story and the climax is open for discussion.
A and B are working for a company and A terms B a GAP. Given below are the reasons for it.
a) Personal – Sometime back, B passed a sportive comment about A in front of others and A did not like it. A resorts to passing degrading personal comments about B in front of others. B was sportive enough to brush them off subtly. A becomes furious and the grudge volcano in him starts boiling.
b) Professional – B reports to A and A is the authoriative person to take decision in his project. B suggests certain changes to the process and substantiates the same with necessary facts and details. A does not understand this and snubs B. After a while, A finds that B is correct and makes changes and takes credit for the same. A also thinks that B may overtake him and by this time, the grudge volcano in him is ready to explode.
c) Cheap - A commands B to do a personal job for him. B refuses it. A explains B how one should do all this to climb up the corporate ladder et all. B listens patiently and says to A that he does not want to climb up the ladder at all if he had to resort to cheap ways. The grudge volcano explodes and the climax is, B is termed a GAP.
My Questions
- Has B taken the right decision?
- Is it possible to tackle people like A?
- What does Attitude problem really mean?
Disclaimer : This short management story is a child of my fiction and in no way represents any individual or any group or anyone in person. The acronym GAP is coined by me for this story and in no way degrades any trademarks or any other acronyms with the same name.
I think I have experienced the same situation some time back.
A person is said to have an attitude problem when, he/she does not want to do justice his/her responsibility, does not take any comments sportively, when others success make him/her jealous.
Based on the above three points I would rather say A is in fact GAP.
The best way to deal ppl like this ignore them.
You climb the corporate ladder not because you help your reporting person a personal favour but only when you are willing to learn something new and try to thing new.
BTW karthick, do we know this person A ?
@ Ananth,
And If I answer it, there is no point in the disclaimer I have put in. So, offline, we can speak about it. 
Welcome back man! How’s Canada? Was speaking with a mututal friend of ours and he said that people like A are everywhere. If you quit a company and join another, you will find a person like A in another form. But at the same time, it is hard to ignore them and stay with them as lot of A’s are torturers. Better shut up and put up with A’s or speak up and quit.
Do we know this person A? Tough question to answer.
a)decisions are decisions…they are always both right and wrong because the effect of any decision could be actually perceived only at a future point….one has to decide and one does , to the best of one’s values and ethics.
b) people like ‘A’ are indeed troulesome to handle,but at the same time even people as ‘B’ ,may seem as people ‘A’ to some other person who perceives himself as ‘B’…..unless careful and alert all the attributes are in abundance in all of us..
C) ‘attitude’ is nothing static . it looks different to different individuals …my “attitude” is just a matter of “perception” of the other…..if there could be ‘gap’ there could be ‘gpp’ tooo…’p’ -perception….
too long..?
@sai,
“attitude” is just a matter of “perception” of the other – Well said