<P> "I think she has been very rude to a lot of people in the past, on her way up--very terse," a friend told the Observer . "She doesn't do small talk . She is never going to be friends with her assistant ." A former assistant said, "You definitely did not ride the elevator with her ." Unwritten rules imposed by Wintour at the Vogue offices forbid junior staffers from initiating conversation with her; an editor who greeted her on the elevator was reprimanded by one of Wintour's assistants . (She calls that an exaggeration .) A visiting reporter saw a junior staffer appear visibly panicked when she realised she would have to ride the elevator with Wintour . Once a junior editor saw her trip in the hallway, walked past without offering assistance, and was later told she "did absolutely the right thing ." </P> <P> Even friends admit to some trepidation in her presence . "Anna happens to be a friend of mine," says Barbara Amiel, "a fact which is of absolutely no help in coping with the cold panic that grips me whenever we meet ." "I know when to stop pushing her," says Coddington . "She doesn't know when to stop pushing me ." </P> <P> She has often been described as a perfectionist who routinely makes impossible, arbitrary demands of subordinates: "kitchen scissors at work," in the words of one commentator . She once made a junior staffer look through a photographer's trash to find a picture he had refused to give her . In a deleted scene from The September Issue, she complains about the "horrible white plastic buckets" of ice behind the bars at the CFDA's 7th on Sale AIDS benefit and moves them out of sight . "The notion that Anna would want something done' now' and not' shortly' is accurate," Amiel says of The Devil Wears Prada . "Anna wants what she wants right away ." A longtime assistant says, "She throws you in the water and you'll either sink or swim ." </P> <P> Peter Braunstein, the former Women's Wear Daily (WWD) media reporter, later convicted of sexually assaulting a coworker, allegedly planned to kill Wintour because of perceived slights . After receiving only one ticket to the 2002 Vogue Fashion Awards, which he perceived as a snub, he became so angry that WWD fired him . At his 2007 trial, prosecutors introduced as evidence a journal he kept on his computer in which he stated his intention to kill her . In it he wrote, "She just never talked to peons like us" to justify his intended actions . </P>

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