The Male Ego

I've known Josh since college. He is a year younger than I and majored in Finance. He proposed to his short-term girlfriend right after she graduated college and months later, found out she was cheating on him with someone at the gym. Fast-forward to now- he is working in the Operations/IT department of a large investment bank and is rather lonely. In a conversation about another classmate who is currently job searching, I struck some kind of male ego cord and he turned into Alpha male before my eyes. As an auditor, I have a greater sense of what he does at his job than the average girl, who might be awed at the words 'Investment Bank'. However, I know low on the totem pole his job is. I must have said something, because he immediately started talking about how easily he could milk the PnL (profit and loss). I copy/pasted the conversation to another auditor friend to laugh about it. I've been running into the male ego a lot lately and I am doing everything to bite my tough and let them have their glory- or I won't have any male friends.

A work acquaintance gave me the following advice, after I witnessed another co-worker peeing in the corner of a building, "Hannah, don't blow up other people's shit."