In-house criticism

Let your boss take it up with his boss. See if that fixes the problem.

If not...

Make friends in the IT department.

Go from there. Those people are the low-yield nuclear weapons in every building. The shit they can do, monitor and find is amazing.

Mr. Asshole will be in HR before the sun goes down.

 

Snarky answers: Write him a scathing e-mail from your personal account about the paper's declining circulation figures and how he's personally responsible for your struggles to get by. Or write him saying, "you want my job you pathetic little fuck, see if you can hack it." Or call him out in front of his circulation buddies and see if embarrassing the whiny little bitch back does the trick.

Or you could always upper deck him.

Serious answer: There's not a whole lot of recourse for that unless he were to send you that scathing e-mail from a work account. Then you could involve your paper's higher-ups because that would make it a personnel issue.

Or write him an assertive e-mail in which you take him to task for not treating you like a human being and you remind him that you're doing your job.

 

Tell him you slept with his wife.

 

Use his chair for a toilet.

Put a dead mouse in his keyboard CPU.

The possibilities are endless.

 

My wife's in a coma.

 

Ideally, your boss should talk to his boss to get this shut down, period. If your boss doesn't have the spine, you speak to his boss.

Or you could always upper deck him.

 

if all he does is write e-mails, delete them and ignore them

if he confronts you in the work place with his opinions, go to your boss

but only then.

 

Walk up to him with a knife. Tell him he's got a nice smile and you're about to give him two more.

 

Fixed

 

Try to have a respectful conversation with him in person. If that doesn't work, tell his boss it didn't and completely ignore him. Guy sounds like a real doofus anyway.

 

Nope... after a respectful conversation, this guy's going to walk away bragging how he got under his skin.... eithe go over his head or through the hole in it.

 

Go in early on the weekends. Take every angry call that comes to the newsroom from people who didn't get their paper. Email the list of people to that guy and cc it to his buddies.