Having to work with a Numpty

[xoggoth]

It is worse when a chap like that is supposed to be your supervisor. At an aircraft testing place one did not have a clue about some of the basics of aircraft simulators.

[thunderlizard]

Hi,
I need some advice.

Recently I hired a contractor to work on our project. From day 1 he turned out to be a smug so&so: acting like he knew what was best but mysteriously never actually getting the software to work. That was when he wasn't skiving off on one of his numerous coffee-breaks. Unfortunately I couldn't get rid of him because of contract terms.

Then I hit upon a genius idea. I made him team up with a right annoying numpty for a while, and he quit in a huff.

So the question is, now he's breached the contract, do I just sue him for what he's invoiced so far on grounds of non-delivery, or should I make up some resulting damages and sue him for them too? Kerchinng!

[chef]

posted 08:01

I've had such a hard few weeks. I've had this show-off, smart-arse contractor round my arse, getting on my wick.....

posted 12:15

Hi,
I need some advice.

Recently I hired a contractor to work on our project. From day 1 he turned out ..

Gentlemen, please keep up at the back, posted at 06:29
http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-got-away.html

[weemster]

Was the numpty a con or perm ?

[shaunbhoy]

Hi, advice needed...

Just recently I had to walk away from a contract due to working with a colleague who was shocking at his work, mistakes were constantly being made and due to being in a small team I was being put in the spotlight as well. I tried to assist him on every occasion and took him for coffee's to understand where he was struggling but he was on the defensive 24 7 to such an extent I didn't trust him.

Has it happened to any one here?

I can really relate to your predicament. I work in a small team and we have a rather domineering yet wholly incompetent manager. He insists on micromanaging us and vets everything we do. Our remit is to provide bona fide statistics relating to the variability of climactic variables, and to look for definitive trends that can be extrapolated to produce realistic and substantive data. However, this muppet insists on "recalculating" all of our work in order to try and substantiate his own rather crude understanding of the patterns, and the result is an unmitigated pot pourri of intangible gobbledygook that supports no real valid conclusions whatsoever. It has dragged us all down to his rather pedestrian and simple level.
He also insists upon calling us all "dude", and turns up for work wearing suits that would not look out of place on circus clowns. He is obsessed with the notion that we are all on the point of catching swine flu, but the truth of it is that we are all just pig-sick of having to work with him. Not sure how much more of it we can stomach, but some of the wilder elements of the "team" are considering taking out a contract on the opinionated little turd.
You have my deepest sympathies,

Dinsdale
Chief Stats Analyst
The Sasgurumatics Collective
BullTulip Towers
London

[alreadypacked]

Yeah, but ours was funnier, and people got ours.

[badgerpig]

I once worked with a coke head wideboy who blagged his way into a job he had no idea of doing, out of nearly 30 ongoing pieces of work he took ownership of 2 easy cherries and ducked and dived the rest, he got away with it for several months till the workload was documented and reported on a weekly basis, he infected half the office with chicken pox and left shortly after deleting all the teams shared inbox folders and archives

[digerido]

Was the numpty a con or perm ?

Dare I drag this back up

He was a perm working for a 3rd party company so he had two sets of managers to impress...