What are your strategies for dealing with difficult co-workers?

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After two years, my teaching contracts ended, so I said hasta luego to my life on the Iberian Peninsula and moved back in with my parents to work a nine-to-five desk job in Washington DC, dealing with financial reviews, company deadlines, terrible co-workers and fax machines that never worked.

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Be knowledgeable within your job description, patient when dealing with a hysterical client, and seek help from co-workers or colleagues when the scenario is above your pay grade.

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