Message #338213

[Schadenfreude]

If you look at it from an operant conditioning perspective, you did exactly the right thing by ignoring the undesirable behavior... the only thing that perhaps was missing was rewarding desirable behavior, then again maybe he had no redeeming qualities. The other problem I see is that it was likely disruptive to the other workers and it probably undermined your authority to some extent because he was allowed to be disrespectful. In the end I believe your supervisor wanted you to either get him to stop or fire him.