Post by All Drop In on Nov 21, 2015 11:59:08 GMT -6
I've been putting my resume together for the first time in over a decade. There's an opportunity of interest, so I decided to clean things up. However, this process has brought back some memories I'd buried. Mostly to not hate certain individuals, or society in general. So here's your opportunity. What are your best/worst experiences? I have a few, and I'll kick it off. But someone else needs to follow, or vent. Cough, Kirkwood, cough.
There are about 73 stories that lead into this one, but here we go. A new director was hired for our program in about 2009. The guy that hired him told him I was his guy. I was honored, but the problem was the person hired was a cocksure assclown. If I was five years older, it probably would have been me. But he was a personable enough guy in private, so I tried to help him. He committed penalty after penalty in our little program world. About three weeks after being hired, we're at our yearly kickoff. He puts his arm around me, and starts sizing up the only guy that had more stroke than him. He tells me he's going to tell him how things will be, or he'll make sure he's gone. I politely told him he won't win that battle. After about ten beers that night, I told him he'd be a fucking idiot with the strategy he was laying out.
Roughly four months later, he calls me in his office to have a discussion with my manager via speakerphone. He has it out for him, and he wants to show me what a big deal he is. This daft MF'er doesn't realize my manager is a personal friend, and someone I respect professionally. While MY DIRECT MANAGER is talking, he's muting the phone and talking shit about him. I think you can tell I'm not trained by the military, so I'm not as inclined to follow chain of command. If you tell me to jump, I'm going to jump if you tell me why I'm jumping. But why shit on someone in that fashion? When the call was over, he told me he asked for a bunch of things from my boss to put in a file. He wanted to fire him within the next month.
Drop In is at a turning point. Do I take my new cushy spot, or do I stooge out the director to my guy? It was one of the most uncomfortable discussions I've ever had. My guy had no idea what was happening. He thought he was informing me of things, when I was actually telling him he was about to be fired regardless. I stooge'd on the assclown, and started shielding my technical boss. It didn't go well. Director guy figured out what happened.
In a shocking turn of events, director guy was fired by the end of the year. The first person he told me he would go to war against got him fired. When asked what his kids got him for Christmas, he said "I didn't need a thing.......(redacted name) getting fired was enough for five Christmases." That guy was such a raging corporate bone, but he looked good in comparison. When all of this was over, I suggested that grown men acting like teenage girls is why our 25 million isn't 250 million. Guess who was next on the heat meter? Haha.
Who's next?
There are about 73 stories that lead into this one, but here we go. A new director was hired for our program in about 2009. The guy that hired him told him I was his guy. I was honored, but the problem was the person hired was a cocksure assclown. If I was five years older, it probably would have been me. But he was a personable enough guy in private, so I tried to help him. He committed penalty after penalty in our little program world. About three weeks after being hired, we're at our yearly kickoff. He puts his arm around me, and starts sizing up the only guy that had more stroke than him. He tells me he's going to tell him how things will be, or he'll make sure he's gone. I politely told him he won't win that battle. After about ten beers that night, I told him he'd be a fucking idiot with the strategy he was laying out.
Roughly four months later, he calls me in his office to have a discussion with my manager via speakerphone. He has it out for him, and he wants to show me what a big deal he is. This daft MF'er doesn't realize my manager is a personal friend, and someone I respect professionally. While MY DIRECT MANAGER is talking, he's muting the phone and talking shit about him. I think you can tell I'm not trained by the military, so I'm not as inclined to follow chain of command. If you tell me to jump, I'm going to jump if you tell me why I'm jumping. But why shit on someone in that fashion? When the call was over, he told me he asked for a bunch of things from my boss to put in a file. He wanted to fire him within the next month.
Drop In is at a turning point. Do I take my new cushy spot, or do I stooge out the director to my guy? It was one of the most uncomfortable discussions I've ever had. My guy had no idea what was happening. He thought he was informing me of things, when I was actually telling him he was about to be fired regardless. I stooge'd on the assclown, and started shielding my technical boss. It didn't go well. Director guy figured out what happened.
In a shocking turn of events, director guy was fired by the end of the year. The first person he told me he would go to war against got him fired. When asked what his kids got him for Christmas, he said "I didn't need a thing.......(redacted name) getting fired was enough for five Christmases." That guy was such a raging corporate bone, but he looked good in comparison. When all of this was over, I suggested that grown men acting like teenage girls is why our 25 million isn't 250 million. Guess who was next on the heat meter? Haha.
Who's next?
