One elementary school teacher even called me and had her students insult me over the phone one by one.

If the insults are laughable, just laugh.

He insulted me by such a remark.

But our minds are not evolved to think about strangers, and we obsess, needlessly, about what people think of us and how these insults will diminish us in the eyes of others.

Not only is this a major insult to employees who have worked hard, but it kills the morale of the employees who witness it.