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@asgs he is the one pushing us to the spotlight :) and playing a blame game over meetings is quite unprofessional
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@netikras well, that's absolutely unfortunate. But it also gives you a perfect opportunity to escalate this to upper management.
Not only did he slow your team down, but he also started exhibiting such obnoxious finger pointing behaviour. Time to rape his ass for good -
@asgs that is something we are considering. But I'd like to use this card as a last resort tho.
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I'd be tempted to start googling articles on the pitfalls of being a micromanager and leave them laying around the office. In all honesty though, it sounds like he feels insecure in the roll and is trying to make up for it by being a good idea fairy. Have you thought about recording how much time it's taking you to try the crazy ideas? If you have logical stats to back it up, give him an estimate of how long research into xyz will take and then ask him which of your current features can be delayed into next release to make up for the time.
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The fuckwad is emotionally 9 months old. The best way to extract revenge on his fuckery [what else is life for?] is sideline his name from any department gift giving activities, like holiday stuff, Secret Santa, &c. Everybody else will be laughing and smirking, saying to their gift recipient that they had no clue what to buy for them... blah blah blah warm and cuddly moments. The shitpole will stand there in shock because nobody thought to include him. When these get togethers occur, WATCH THE EYES FOR THE BEGINNINGS OF TEARS!!! It makes life worth living sometimes...
There was this tech guy in our project. I don't really know how techy nor what his role was, but I do know he was a techie.
Lately we'd noticed he was behaving more and more managerish. Orchestrating resources over slack, scheduling meetings, the managerial slang... Bulletpoints... It was obvious what's going to happen - he was striving for a manager's chair. Cool. He seemed like a guy who can indeed do this well. And the fact that he's a techie was promising - he should understand so many things.
Boy did that come around and bite us in our asses. Turns out this guy is a googler. If we are working on some case [as we always are] he jumps in and offers his opinion, although he is far from our technical area. We explain how/why it is not a good idea. Then he does some googling and comes back with a different idea! And insists on testing it out... FTR, a single test in our project could take from 1 to 6 hours. And he's a manager now!! We can't just ignore his requests...
Allright, we do that testing. Results are far from satisfying. We continue investigating. He does as well. We'd like to try something out, but there he comes with a new idea! And ofc we are asked to test it out as well.
Our own testing is postponed again.
A few days like this one pass by. In a daily meeting we are blamed for taking that long to do our investigation and we are questioned as engineers.
Superb...
Honestly? I'm having second thoughts about this new role. It's supposed to be fun and challenging and all, but this kind of shit is just too much...
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