<p><b>Want to get those difficult colleagues off your back and restore your sanity? NYU psychology professor Tessa West shows you how.</b><br><br>Have you ever watched a colleague charm the pants off management while showing a competitive, Machiavellian side to the lower ranks? They don''t hesitate to throw peers under the bus, but their boss is oblivious to their bad behaviour. What about a constantly interrupting colleague? Or an over-bearing manager? While these jerks stress us out in small ways throughout the day, they aren''t technically breaking any rules, so we''re expected just to put up with them.<br><br>...Until now. Tessa West has already helped thousands of people resolve their most pressing workplace issues. And here she draws on a decade of original research to profile classic workplace archetypes, including the Gaslighter, the Bulldozer, the Credit-Stealer, the Neglecter, and the Micromanager, giving advice to anyone who''s ever hidden in the bathroom to cry at work. She