Jocko Underground: How To Deal With Public Transgressions Against You from Someone.

Jocko Willink· Host0:00

This is the Jocko Underground podcast, number 213, sitting here with Echo Charles. We have some, we have some questions from the field, from the front lines.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:08

Mm-hmm.

Jocko Willink· Host0:09

From the go zone.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:10

Killin' the go zone, yeah.

Jocko Willink· Host0:12

And we are going to attempt to supply you with answers- Mm ... guidance, or at a minimum, courses of action to follow.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:22

Yep. All right, first question. "I try to live by letting small transgressions go, like not speeding up to cut someone off when slowing down gets the same result. But I recently had a situation that made me question where the line is between letting things go and standing up for myself. My wife and I were in a long checkout line at a busy big box store. We got behind a woman with a few items, and her husband suddenly rolled up with a flatbed full of stuff and started unloading. I tell him, 'Hey bro, you can't just do that.' He told me to shut up and mind my own business. I asked the cashier if he was really, if she was really gonna allow it, and she looked overwhelmed. A manager came over, and instead of addressing him, he moved me at, to another checkout line. I felt embarrassed afterward, and realized I probably should've let it go. But my question is, where's the line? And what, at what point do you stand up and say, 'That's not okay'? If no one confronts disrespectful behavior, won't people keep doing it? How do you balance self-respect with knowing