"gometz" (gometz)
08/15/2013 at 18:01 • Filed to: None
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"gometz" (gometz)
08/15/2013 at 18:01 • Filed to: None | 3
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Sorry everyone, need to vent.
So today is my Friday (normally don't work Friday's, I have a 4-10 schedule which normally turns into 4-12). At 3:30PM I get out of a meeting early thinking that I can finish up some small things and get out early (5PM).
But all of a sudden I get an email from the leader of the team I am on (she thinks she is our boss but she's not), asking a few of us to review the application she wants to send in to corporate for us to get an award. It is due today at 5PM Central, and it was CRAP.
Misspellings (how do you even do that using Word?), terrible punctuation, run on sentences, sentence fragments, "it's" for "its" (I never use "it's" in a formal document anyways), forgetting to use "an" before a vowel, etc. The worst was the part where she changed from first person to third person voice mid sentence.
Now of course I would like my share of the reward (my share would be $1200), so I read through this trying not to hit my head against the table. Instead of a normal review, I ended up having to pretty much rewrite half of it (7 pages long) in the next 45 minutes.
Needless to say I am very annoyed by this. I did my part, finished up some more work and now I am going home.
Has anyone else had an experience with someone like this? They make themselves out to be very important but in fact are barely competent and wait until the last minute to do the work?
Here's a pretty picture for your trouble if you read through all of this.
CounterTorqueSteer
> gometz
08/15/2013 at 18:07 |
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Thanks for the pretty picture. I think every college student who has been on a project team has experienced some degree of incompetency. It is frustrating for sure, but it shows a lot about your work ethic if you are able to successfully pick up the slack. There is no limit to how far someone can go if they are willing to do work without expecting to receive all of the credit.
Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT
> gometz
08/15/2013 at 18:15 |
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Kid I worked with was just like that....
He felt that because he had worked there longer and was older than me he could boss me around.
He ended up as a lube tech because as a technician he failed, too many come backs and too many issues otherwise. Now....I'm not the type to sit back and let someone boss me around unless appointed to be the boss...I never received any notification from the General Manager, or Service Managers that he was my boss.
So any time he demanded I do something, I would be a pain in the ass about it. But I would get it done.
One day, I asked him to do something for me while I ran around getting more done. He told me "No, I will not do anything for them downstairs (actual techs, as opposed to us lube techs), they didn't help me when I needed it, I won't help them" He did this in front of customers, big mistake, so I looked at him, and quietly said, "Stop being such a whiny little bitch and grab this fucking car, get it started while I grab a few other things for us up here." Al with a smile, and he listened.
I got back up stairs, and he came to me and said "Don't you ever speak to me like that again, I'll speak to the manager, and have you fired."
I respond "Good, I put my month notice in anyways, won't bother me in the least"
His response "You are gonna get no further than where you are, no matter how much you spend on school, no matter how much you act like you know what you are doing a lube tech is all you will be"
Me "But I wanna be just like you, fail as a tech, and be sent up stairs only to be a lube tech, and be stuck making no money, and putting myself in charge of other people....Also, if you really hate everyone as much as you say you do, why don't you quit, get out, no one will care, we won't even notice you are gone. We will celebrate the fact that such a pile of crap tech has left us, so either stop being so negative, or walk out right now, I'll roll your tool box to the road for you"
After that, he wouldn't talk to me for a couple weeks...Made me happy. My last week with him was good, I didn't hold back once. I let off on him any time he was being a negative nancy, or being incompetent. Also, the service Manager fully supported what I said, and never stopped it, even when he heard me go off....Hell, he and all the techs gave me high fives for what I said to him.
Pitchblende
> gometz
08/15/2013 at 18:33 |
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All the time.
I am currently supporting another department, its going through an interregnum at the moment and is being moved from being under my manager to another. You can bet that as soon as they get a new guy running it I'm going to be passing that shit straight back, saying "Is there no-one in your own department that can handle your own departments problems?"
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gometz
> CounterTorqueSteer
08/16/2013 at 15:35 |
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Oh I had a shitty experience similar to this during college as well.
Senior design project (design an acetone, butanol, ethanol plant). One of our teammates (out of 3), had a prior commitment in Las Vegas over spring break. So while she was hanging out and coordinating some sort of conference in VEGAS (!), and the other one went home but would send me updates (I was chosen as team leader), I spent 90% of my time doing the work. When it came to rank one another at the end she refused to accept our lower ranking of her. At the beginning of the class she even said she didn't want to do any of the process work, just the logistical work. I didn't have time to redo her work, but when I look it over for the final draft, she did not even consider pipelines (which are well known to be the cheapest delivery method).
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CounterTorqueSteer
> gometz
08/16/2013 at 15:56 |
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Well she sure sounds like a winner...