Reply to: Truly stupid people and how to cope with them

[jmo21]

I meant industry.

[suityou01]

Suity, obvious you won't name names, but what type of company is this?

A tulipty one.

[jmo21]

Suity, obvious you won't name names, but what type of company is this?

[RichardCranium]

Still he proceeded to wind up into a rant. Shouting, swearing.

I doubt you have to take that any more. ISTM most employers now have a policy of staff having to respect one another and swearing being unacceptable behaviour.

Document what language this waste of space said to you - if you don't want to deal with it now, it may be useful in the future.

[suityou01]

Having had my priorities changed 3 times this week they seem to have settled down. So I am now working through them in order. This week has had too many meetings and an awful lot of shouting, mostly from the PM.

He called me this morning, apparently we had a review meeting. Slipped my mind and Outlook didn't pop up a reminder for some reason. Lame excuse. Still he proceeded to wind up into a rant. Shouting, swearing.

Suity : "Errrrm, one second please ......"
PM : "What!"

Suity : "I have been shouted at all week and it's got me precisely nowhere. I appreciate you just called up to have a pop, but if you don't mind I have a stack of work to get on with and deadlines to hit so can you please just get off the phone and let me get on with it. The time for shouting is over, we now need a period of doing actual work"

PM beats hasty retreat and ends the call politely.

[suityou01]

Send them an email along the lines of:

"**** me, what a mess, I quit"

That's what I did.

On the current gig

[2BIT]

Send them an email along the lines of:

"**** me, what a mess, I quit"

That's what I did.

yeah me too, PM was a lunatic and was replaced with an equally feckless moron who went on the same PM course

[doodab]

Send them an email along the lines of:

"**** me, what a mess, I quit"

That's what I did.

[suityou01]

I did, in a round about way.

[Zippy]

Yep tried this. Being too negative apparently. Tried a few times in different approaches. Even did a powerpoint presentation thinking pictures may speak louder than words.

So picked one and dropped the other two. Then the customer's of the other two compained to the PM and he then acted.

Given the title and poster of this thread, I'd hoped SY01 was going to be giving advice how to cope with him, not requesting it.

I did, in a round about way.

[suityou01]

Given the title and poster of this thread, I'd hoped SY01 was going to be giving advice how to cope with him, not requesting it.

Try again?

[d000hg]

Given the title and poster of this thread, I'd hoped SY01 was going to be giving advice how to cope with him, not requesting it.

[suityou01]

I'm not SY01 - honest.

[original PM]

i'm not convinced!

think you posted but forgot you were using your sockie - which ever one that may be...

[original PM]

well at least I got something correct!