Having to work with a Numpty

[suityou01]

But what if he gets sacked and then becomes your stalker waiting for you outside after work wearing an anorak and carrying a meat cleaver ? has this not been considered in his appraisal ?

chutney spoon

Fixed that for you

HTH

[Numpty]

The other side of the coin

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

He never did read our in-house standards and so produced silly code inappropriate to our systems.

Then he started getting REALLY patronising. He kept making me go with him to the coffee shop - and pay, cheeky sod - where he'd lecture me on "At Previous ClientCo we did things this way" and all that tedious crap. And he did this in work time so he was charging for it! I tried explaining we do things here they way we do for good reasons, but he wouldn't listen, he just kept going on about how he knew best.

It didn't help that he was an Australian with poor English. Apostrophe's in every plural; calling everyone "Maaaate" and "She'll be right". He had some daft Strine nickname for himself which he even spelt wrong. He got on everyone's tits.

Just to show me up, the cheeky bugger actually went to our boss and said I was holding him back and could he have a transfer! Our boss also thought he was a tit and agreed just to get rid of him, but the big boss said we had work to do and this contractor should get on with what he was brought in to do and that if he found it too hard the boss should sack him. Especially if the contractor started making me change my way of working.

Eventually this prima donna realised he was out of his depth and walked out. Phew!

You know, I bet he's out there bitching about how bad WE were!

Numpty.

[zeitghost]

But what if he gets sacked and then becomes your stalker waiting for you outside after work wearing an anorak and carrying a meat cleaver ? has this not been considered in his appraisal ?

Bearing in mind that this is Septic land, it's much more likely to be an AK47...

[BrilloPad]

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

He never did read our in-house standards and so produced silly code inappropriate to our systems.

Then he started getting REALLY patronising. He kept making me go with him to the coffee shop - and pay, cheeky sod - where he'd lecture me on "At Previous ClientCo we did things this way" and all that tedious crap. And he did this in work time so he was charging for it! I tried explaining we do things here they way we do for good reasons, but he wouldn't listen, he just kept going on about how he knew best.

It didn't help that he was an Australian with poor English. Apostrophe's in every plural; calling everyone "Maaaate" and "She'll be right". He had some daft Strine nickname for himself which he even spelt wrong. He got on everyone's tits.

Just to show me up, the cheeky bugger actually went to our boss and said I was holding him back and could he have a transfer! Our boss also thought he was a tit and agreed just to get rid of him, but the big boss said we had work to do and this contractor should get on with what he was brought in to do and that if he found it too hard the boss should sack him. Especially if the contractor started making me change my way of working.

Eventually this prima donna realised he was out of his depth and walked out. Phew!

You know, I bet he's out there bitching about how bad WE were!

Numpty.

This would probably be true : except that the OP is a sockpuppet.

[digerido]

Jesus what I have started? I can't quite understand how the situation was taken out of context. Now burned I'll live and learn.

Actually I've now been burned twice in as many weeks.

Classic site...

[BlasterBates]

Don't make friends whatever you do. The best way to avoid being a target is to be totally aloof. Never socialise turn up to work, don't talk to people unless it is a specific technical point, and be ever so slightly snotty in a discussion, that is not raise your voice but just talk over opponent, you know like politicians do.

[bobhope]

Don't make friends whatever you do. The best way to avoid being a target is to be totally aloof. Never socialise turn up to work, don't talk to people unless it is a specific technical point, and be ever so slightly snotty in a discussion, that is not raise your voice but just talk over opponent, you know like politicians do.

Lifted straight from "How to make friends and influence people" ??

[bobhope]

Indeed a tricky situation.



You can guess what's going to happen next!

You're going to punch him / start a fight :-) ? Or are you mellowed now?

[sasguru]

Indeed a tricky situation.

In my earlier days, I also worked with some guy who wasnt up to the job. But he was a great schmoozer. I of course helped him out and covered for him when it came to renewal time they decided they only needed one contractor. Well it wasnt me who got the gig, it was him. When I left he also threatened to leave and negotiated his rate up another 30%. In hindsight I shouldnt have helped him.

Now it's different. I am now the boss and recently promoted have team of 25, both contractors and permanent. I have undertaken a review of all my resource, and effectively I have teamed individuals together in a 'batting buddy' kind of way. I have one strong business individual assigned with one strong technical individual. Paired in this way, they are both responsible for delivery on a task/project.

Now an individual has been bought to my attention by two customers (one of whom is my bosses/boss - who wanted the individual sacked - being american we can do this immediately). I decided to review the individuals work for the client and got his batting buddy to do the same. The batting buddy on my instruction then reviewed the chaps work and recommended changes, I reviewed the batting buddies recommendations.

In this case, the individual who is being coached has decided not to take the recommendations or make the changes as he feels he is working in the best way for his skillset, I disagree, his buddy disagrees and the customer still isnt happy.

In this case, he has now been exposed, given the opportunity to change and been provided help.

You can guess what's going to happen next!

Sort of scanned all that and all I got is something about having a team of botty boys. Is that legal?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Sort of scanned all that and all I got is something about having a team of botty boys. Is that legal?

battybwoy

All the development staff here are numpties. I should sack everyone.