3 Ways to Deal With a Passive-Aggressive Boss  What do your boss
and your loved ones have in common? Both sometimes have to tell
you things you don't want to hear. Also, I'm betting you'd
prefer that they wouldn't be passive-aggressive about it. Alas,
we don't have a lot of control over what our managers do, so the
burden is on us to find successful ways of dealing with
management styles we don't like. Lifehacker recently put out a
call to their readers to share some coping mechanisms. These
were my favorites:  1. Ignore it. If it's just your boss's
style, and doesn't impact your ability to do your job, you might
be better off just pretending you don't care -- or better yet,
learning how to concentrate on other things.   2. Be literal.
Commenter xenocyclus says "...one strategy that works well for
me is to address passive aggression as if it is literal truth.
It also forces the person being passive aggressive to come clean
with what they want. Since my boss is doing it mostly as an
unconscious behavior, she's