Available higher authorities already know this guy is a jerk, and one of them is one too and likes him, so ... I mentioned it to my manager, fwiw.

And today we're exchanging mails about the problems ... but I have little hope of anything improving. Of course that's generally true of me.

When asked by an intrepid white reporter what he thought of Western civilisation, Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi is reported to have said, "I think it would be a good idea."