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> Wow such a team player! You must be a joy to work with.

Sarcasm, insult.

> Helping your team is an “obligation” but only if a certain math equation is a positive number..

Deliberate negative misrepresentation of a reasonable position (some things are more important than others).

> When my manager asks a question, I don’t treat it with hostility.

Boasting, posturing of superiority.

> It isn’t a “dumb” question, because for some reason that’s what he needed to know.

Claim that you know their life better than they do, and you are a better judge of what they are being asked than they are.

> I could bet that you have asked a few dumb questions in your day.

Irrelevant putdown/insult, which wouldn't change the current situation whether it was true or false.

> You are a team. It isn’t all about “your productivity,”

Dismissive putdown, with quotes implying their productivity isn't important, i.e. that they overvalue their own work and that you can value it better than they can.

> it’s about the team accomplishing the goal

Dismissive of the fact that for a team to accomplish a goal, people in the team must be able to do their work towards said goal.

> You probably aren’t a Nobel winning physicist sitting around dreaming up theories that change the earth, but it certainly seems like it

Irrelevant insult and putdown, implying their work is unimportant. Tag-on bit at the end insults their own judgement of the worth of their work and implicitly claims you are a better judge of its importance than they are.

> perhaps you should just be helpful and friendly and not such an entitled grump

Another insult, accusation of overblown status.

> Or perhaps get better at your job

Another insult.

> Perhaps your hatred of interruption is due to insecurity or anxiety about your abilities.

Another insult.

> Be helpful and compassionate

The jaw-dropping, tone-deaf, blind-to-what-you-are-saying sentence which causes me to post this comment.



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