Office politics - bad clients you've had?

[psychocandy]

Virgin Media. Managers only interested in their own bonus and sucking up to their own managers.
Had to do a project presentation, send the slides one week before to the department manager, she said it was good. Held the presentation and the departments manager's manager came suddenly in, halfway through the meeting, disrupted the whole thing as she usually does, said behind my back, she didn't like my slides, resulting in department manager also not liking the slides.
Things like this were(and as my informants tell are still) going on, on an almost daily basis. Constant backstabbing as soon as you walked out of a meeting where everybody agreed with the outcome. Was gone very quickly from that hornets nest

Ive found the opposite happens in "some" PS places. New manager comes in, or transfers from another dept. Permies whove been there 30 year decide they dont need new manager, carry on as before, ignoring what new manager does etc. A battle commences.

[northernladuk]

Mods, cant we give Psycho here his own sub forum ?

Or a custom title something along the lines of 'Banned'

[psychocandy]

Or a custom title something along the lines of 'Banned'

Thought u'd be along soon

[vetran]

Or a custom title something along the lines of 'Banned'

what

"Not Banned like NLUK"

calling for a poster to be banned warms up the ban hammer.

Your Bromance warms our hearts - get a flaming room!

[mudskipper]

Today I had cornflakes for breakfast followed by a large tulip.

Strange choice. I prefer cornflakes followed by jam on toast.

[northernladuk]

what

"Not Banned like NLUK"

calling for a poster to be banned warms up the ban hammer.

Your Bromance warms our hearts - get a flaming room!

Can we ban Vetran please. Reason - About as funny as a dose of piles.

Thank you.

[OwlHoot]

The worst job ever has not been so much the client but replacing another contractor.

I recall one job with THALES whereby the contractor I replaced I had to complete his job. I then realised the job I was to complete had not really begun, and it was fairly obvious. Thus I presented the evidence and status to the client. They were furious. Took it out on me. I stuck the job for 6 months. A job that really needed 2 years.

The worst part was the intimidation, when it became clear I was not renewing they pulled me upstairs. Me in the chair with the MD, the line managers 8 versus 1. First came threats, you've got to renew it's in your contract (no it isn't) followed by - "we'll give you your own office" - "pay for your flights to London" - "how much do you want?" -

No one threatens Scooter. I left and felt a whole lot happier for doing so.

Text book example of the "humble brag"

[woohoo]

First contract was bad, warning signs straight off. Guy had been promoted and half the senior devs had left or were in the process of leaving.

He was a really clever bloke and in hindsight I would say he had bipolar or something similar. Anyway, he would ruin my carefully planned sign off meetings and would aggressively pepper me with questions. He would also constantly interrupt me, I mean constantly, very strange. In the end after another peppering session I told him to be quiet and left early on a Friday afternoon. Met up with him the next week, explained to him why I was leaving. As I was telling him that he constantly interrupted me he was interrupting me - just could not help himself.

Strange though, I quite liked the guy, he just did these strange things.

[scooterscot]

Text book example of the "humble brag"

Was answering a question, was aye naw?

[quackhandle]

NHS.

<shudder>.

qh