Reply to: Strange "bosses"

[jmo21]

I've met plenty of odd balls like this in my time.

People are weird/stupid/normal/dicks (delete as appropriate).

[tractor]

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So I work in a team of 9. The team lead / Agile scrum master planner kanban card carrying maniac is also a contractor.

Bossman has been coming up with some very unlikely sounding stories lately. Highlights, with some details slightly changed, include:

- How he was set to marry his Asian fiancee but her dad had ties to organised crime so he bailed
- How he knows how to profile people and manipulate them into doing what he wants them do using this knowledge (which, he claims, is how he ended up with his wife)
- How he's training in a Asian gang-developed fighting style in a place he found somewhere in Wales

I've spoken discreetly to others on the team and they're all of the opinion that he's hard work. He's antagonised others in the past so has a reputation for the wrong reasons. He's like an overenthusiastic child who's fallen down the stairs maybe one time too many...

Anyone else got any experiences like this? How do you deal with them? I'm figuring on nodding, smiling and keeping my head down. That should do it. Unless he five-finger death punches me or something.

• Call Crimestoppers, tell them you think he's been attending terrorist training camps in Wales.
  
• Apply for his role after they cart him away.

Job done.

[fullyautomatix]

He sounds to me like a right Walter Mitty character.

Does he by any chance call people "cretins" a lot?

Most likely the master behind this obvious sockie.

[OwlHoot]

I have no idea if he's on here. Guess time will tell!

Pretty much. He is a nice guy, not an arsehole at all, but he reminds me of someone else I used to work with who once claimed he helped out his mate by taking her virginity. There are some seriously weird folk out there it seems..

He sounds to me like a right Walter Mitty character.

Does he by any chance call people "cretins" a lot?

[original PM]

Funny thing; I didn't ask him for photos but he pulled out his phone and showed me a photo of "his old fiancee".

It was obviously a proper photoshoot job. Hiiiiighly suspicious.

Probably downloaded from brides r us!

[Mattski]

Funny thing; I didn't ask him for photos but he pulled out his phone and showed me a photo of "his old fiancee".

It was obviously a proper photoshoot job. Hiiiiighly suspicious.

[original PM]

Yeah I am not sure where Agile became just do it and have no documents....

Because that is not what it is.

As for your boss every time he starts talking sh1t just say 'Photo's or it didn't happen'

[Mattski]

Current ClientoCo is moving to agile. The have brought in a few of these evangelistic chunts, who have infected a some of the permies with their zeal. It's making life very difficult, slowing stuff down and causing endless confusion cos nothing is properly documented.

This is pretty much the situation here, except there's so much inertia here that I reckon it'll be "truly agile" in about 140 years or so.

I'm not sure how I feel about Agile. I can understand and even like the idea that hey, let's release often and break things, but OTOH docs are essential. My last perm role had a raging hardon for Agile, so much so that when a DB cluster died the recovery was slowed down because nobody thought to document the ulimits and kernel tuning involved... I guess, like a loaded gun, it's dangerous in the hands of people who don't know wtf they're doing?

[barrydidit]

The team lead / Agile scrum master planner kanban card carrying maniac

they're all of the opinion that he's hard work.

He's antagonised others in the past

He's like an overenthusiastic child who's fallen down the stairs maybe one time too many...

Anyone else got any experiences like this? How do you deal with them?

Current ClientoCo is moving to agile. The have brought in a few of these evangelistic chunts, who have infected a some of the permies with their zeal. It's making life very difficult, slowing stuff down and causing endless confusion cos nothing is properly documented.

I'm figuring on nodding, smiling and keeping my head down.

It's working for me so far

[mudskipper]

I have no idea if he's on here.
...
He is a nice guy...

Too late, you've dug the hole!

[Mattski]

I have no idea if he's on here. Guess time will tell!

Humour him then talk about him to other team members.

Pretty much. He is a nice guy, not an arsehole at all, but he reminds me of someone else I used to work with who once claimed he helped out his mate by taking her virginity. There are some seriously weird folk out there it seems..

[GlenW]

I'm figuring on nodding, smiling, keeping my head down and continue invoicing. That should do it. Unless he five-finger death punches me or something.

Sounds like a plan to me.

[Unix]

So I work in a team of 9. The team lead / Agile scrum master planner kanban card carrying maniac is also a contractor.

Bossman has been coming up with some very unlikely sounding stories lately. Highlights, with some details slightly changed, include:

- How he was set to marry his Asian fiancee but her dad had ties to organised crime so he bailed
- How he knows how to profile people and manipulate them into doing what he wants them do using this knowledge (which, he claims, is how he ended up with his wife)
- How he's training in a Asian gang-developed fighting style in a place he found somewhere in Wales

I've spoken discreetly to others on the team and they're all of the opinion that he's hard work. He's antagonised others in the past so has a reputation for the wrong reasons. He's like an overenthusiastic child who's fallen down the stairs maybe one time too many...

Anyone else got any experiences like this? How do you deal with them? I'm figuring on nodding, smiling and keeping my head down. That should do it. Unless he five-finger death punches me or something.

Humour him then talk about him to other team members.

[vetran]

So I work in a team of 9. The team lead / Agile scrum master planner kanban card carrying maniac is also a contractor.

Bossman has been coming up with some very unlikely sounding stories lately. Highlights, with some details slightly changed, include:

- How he was set to marry his Asian fiancee but her dad had ties to organised crime so he bailed
- How he knows how to profile people and manipulate them into doing what he wants them do using this knowledge (which, he claims, is how he ended up with his wife)
- How he's training in a Asian gang-developed fighting style in a place he found somewhere in Wales

I've spoken discreetly to others on the team and they're all of the opinion that he's hard work. He's antagonised others in the past so has a reputation for the wrong reasons. He's like an overenthusiastic child who's fallen down the stairs maybe one time too many...

Anyone else got any experiences like this? How do you deal with them? I'm figuring on nodding, smiling and keeping my head down. That should do it. Unless he five-finger death punches me or something.

get his CUK moniker I already have a suspicion

[mudskipper]

Sounds like half the posters on this board. He's probably reading this right now.