Backstabbing Permie Staff: Revenge or keep it professional

[russell]

Take him aside and warn him if he does that again you will kill him, cut one of his bollocks off as a warning and post it to SimonMac.

[Bacchus]

The (Permie) or the Hippo in question:
- Eliminated my chances of going perm.
- Undermine my abilities to our manager, thereby making me look that I'm not good at my job.
- Undermine my abilities to other other stakeholders, face to face, on conference calls and via emails.
- Hidden key emails from me by not CC me in. So it took me longer to learn about these business processes.
- Push another permie off the project because that person hated working with him.

If he did all this, he's obviously better than you . Go quietly


<thinks>Has SuitYou01 created a sock-puppet...</thinks>

[Friday Blue]

put passwords in well placed point and key documents in twisted file path before you leave, may be they realise they want you back after you left. then have round two with hippo

[ChimpMaster]

Going by what you have written, seriously I think Hippo would make a better contractor than you.

Anyway, you've left it too late to deal with now. Just move on and forget about this client, because you'll be slated there even more after you've left and you'll never work for them again.

You should have dealt with this a long, long time ago.

[jmo21]

Make sure to tell the permie you've just secured a contract paying, for example an extra £100/day more

[Freamon]

That's all we need, a Suity/Wilmslow hybrid.

Can you write some more posts about your garden shed / dogging experiences?

[SantaClaus]

Make sure to tell the permie you've just secured a contract paying, for example an extra £100/day more

Agree, wind him up rotten before you go!

[darrenb]

At nearly all clients I have always found someone who is quite "anti-contractor" and vocal about it. They then spend duration of the gig trying to make any contractor look stupid in front of senior management, or even refuse to work with or talk to them. Got so bad at one site, a permie guy had his pride and joy sports car keyed quite badly.

This country.

I have worked in several countries as a freelancer, and when I first started up in the UK the whole contractor vs permie thing caught me by surprise. Sure it exists in other countries but only as one among many potential workplace tensions. This particular thing is worse in Britain than anywhere else. If a permie has trouble starting the car in the morning or an argument with his wife, it is considered culturally acceptable for him to relieve his stress by picking on a contractor because "he earns more than me" or whatever.

My feeling is that the suspicion of freelancers is essentially a divide-and-conquer tactic by management. Anyway, another good reason to leave and work in an economy with a healthier atmosphere.

[BrilloPad]

QUESTION: Should one remain profession and leave it as learning experience or would one person serve up REVENGE on the backstabber permie who looks like a HIPPO.

On the surface remain professional. Try some revenge without letting it be known who is doing it. Get a prostitute's card and change phone number to be the HIPPOs then get them printed up and distribute. Or similar via ad in paper.

[Arturo Bassick]

On the surface remain professional. Try some revenge without letting it be known who is doing it. Get a prostitute's card and change phone number to be the HIPPOs then get them printed up and distribute. Or similar via ad in paper.

On a similar note. Pop down to B&Q and get a can of foam filler. Sneak round his car and empty the filler in his exhaust (you might need some sort of bung to stop it coming out the back).

**Obviously this would be classed as criminal damage and therefore illegal so I would not suggest for one minute that you took this (or any other) advice as an instruction.