This is the answer. You made him lose face by “pretending” not to understand his English in the presence of others. I sometimes do this on purpose to piss people off, but it’s not a good idea to do it to someone you need to interact with on a regular basis.
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This is a good point, thanks. I don’t join those meetings due to the timing and lack of action The guards now have a 12 hour shift with no night duty required. Per hour their job is better without any additional duties or loss in wages , which is why the attitude issue is so strange.
I mean does he affect your life? And how much are you paying for them to be there is how I’d judge this.
I’ve gotten rid of one late night door man because he kept sleeping at night. I don’t bring my keys because I’ve lost one and they have to be ordered in Germany with a special chip to work and cost about 5k USD a copy. So I don’t want to lose another one. So I need the doorman to open my lobby door when I come back late and let me in the elevator into my floors lobby where I leave my keys. And our building only has like 6 tenants, one for each floor so we pay a lot to have them split between 6 people. So I expect them to be really professional. They even have a cool program that hires one disabled person to be the helper and the guy is super nice and friendly. They bring my packages up to my door and inform me, take me up the lift, run to open the lobby and elevator, etc. But at the same time we pay a lot so I expect really good service.
If you’re not really paying much and they don’t really bother you I’d say screw it. They probably make 30k a month doing a awful job so let life be their revenge for you.
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Not sure how often you encounter him, but I assume less than once a day. And if you pass him it’s over within a few seconds, right? Why get riled up about it? In our building these guards make 20K a month, doing day shifts and night shift. It’s a very boring, but tiring job, cause you have to stay awake through the night and you got nothing to do. They are most often retired and have to keep working, because they don’t do well financially. Just say “Ni Hao” and smile. If you need to talk to a guard, wait until a friendly one is available.
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FIFY
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I know ours get more than 30+ but. They are expected to do more than just sit there however. I’m just saying don’t expect much from the ones that don’t really do anything.
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Well you know what to do, you have to kill him.
Good luck, watch some Dexter episodes to get away with it.
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Sorry, but you need to get out of your own head and invest that energy into something more productive.
Not sure how fake calls will help you achieve “status”
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Your garbage arrangements sound like a right scam (you have to pay for the service but don’t get to decide how/when your garbage is picked up … doesn’t that kind of defeat the whole purpose?). Anyway … I think as others have said, your best option is just to completely ignore him unless there’s some reason you need to be on good terms with him. The world contains too many assholes to worry about them individually.
If you’d rather not have an ongoing atmosphere, there’s most likely some reason he’s behaving this way, even if (to you) it’s irrational or stupid. Have you tried asking your landlord what’s up with him?
If you think he’s actually doing something that will eventually cause danger or harm to the community, you’ll need to get some support from your neighbours.
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You did not provide any examples of this in your OP. Please edit the top-most post and add examples of such behaviour.
So…your Phd wasn’t in people skills?
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– moved to another thread – Appreciating the work of security guards
I sure hope it wasn’t in Photoshop
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You lost your keys and had to fork up 5000 USD for a new one? Did I just understand that correctly?
@Andrew0409 drops US$5K out of his pants when he lays down on the couch.
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Hey @Andrew0409 pay me a visit sometime. We’ll have a few brews, and if you’re too tired or drunk to drive home you can crash on my super comfortable couch! 
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You’re correct. I have reflected and, that particular day, had let some bad news influence my emotions. I would usually have ignored his attitude. As the Taiwanese English expression goes: “UCCU.”
I didn’t get a new one. I have a couple pairs of keys. But if I lose more…yes. Not only is it expensive, it’s a long process for security purposes to get another made.
Thanks for the rational advice and suggested reasons from everyone. I’ve calmed down and reflected. By “status” I mean that I pay NTD1,500 per month for services, including his assistance. I don’t like to see him yelling at other people and treating me rudely after asking a simple question in a very polite way. I dare not complain own behalf and am not sure others have complained, although his behavior and attitude seem obvious most times I observe him. They do get slightly over 22K per month, but I get along beautifully with the other two guards. The suggestion I may have made him lose face in the past in not responding to his attempts at English may be a contributing factor (although the way he used English with me came across as mockingly, thus my response of not understanding him).
For other, less constructive comments, I try not to ridicule people on forums. Not sure what my admittedly crappy Photoshop skills have to do with my educational background (one which I hold with no arrogance and have only mentioned in context). At any rate, “live and let live” is the overarching theme to this thread, I suppose.
You better watch it, man, pretty sure @Andrew0409 don’t go for that mano a mano shit…
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course