Difficult People

I expect that in a job that deals with people from across the country, that I would run into difficult people. And I have but not to the extent of the Team Leader of a group here this week! Now I have patience and I can kill anyone who is difficult with kindness, and believe me I have. I've sat next to this person at almost every meal and talked to him about the work he is doing down here, about his day, about his family! Okay I've tried, but to be blown off on the important paper work and orientation is too much. I asked him twice for the release forms and he laughed me off. So this morning , in front of a few of his buddies I calmly and politely mentioned that no one could go to their work site without me having all the forms. And hey he even paid me for the time they are here! Go figure that maybe I need that at the beginning of the week. The best part is I can tell that he has laughed off any authority that I have because I'm a woman, he did the same thing to my co-manager. Not cool folks! This is my job, and I know how to do it. I honestly have not had a group in my 6 weeks here that I've counted down the hours until they left like I am with this group.