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@denialofservice you guys should all come together to the manager and tell them that ur work and well being and thus efficiency and outcome is suffering from him :/
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@denialofservice In that case, team up and bully that asshole back. If that doesn't work, doing a team-coordinated leave for greener pastures is still an option too.
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There was a recruiter at an old workplace, genuinely the most toxic person I've seen in an office. Very similar situation, even though he wasn't an engineer - brown-nosed one team and kind of turned them against everyone else, licked the CEO's arsehole, was very fond of implying that he knew how much everyone was on and that it wasn't much/less than him. Constantly tried to make people look stupid to shore up his position.
One evening, when he'd fucked off, someone came desk-to-desk and just outright said: 'I'm going to formally complain about him, would you put your name to a list if you knew there would be at least three of us?' - lots of people jumped at the chance.
Nobody wants to do it on their own, but if you can get 3+ names together, you'll shit management up. After all, if the team's performance suffers, so does their reputation.
In the meantime, just agree to have each other's backs in meetings, whether it's calling him out or defending each other. -
@denialofservice good luck with it. Our guy didn't get fired, but he resigned soon after - and he shut the fuck up from the moment he was called in to be told that a significant number of people objected to his behaviour. It works.
One thing: he did say to me one day that he knew I was one of the people who had complained. This was a bluff, although I had always been a bit more openly contemptuous of him, so a fair enough bet. If he's a bully, and in a culture like that, it wouldn't hurt to be ready for him to ask you about it. I'd just say something like "you're a nice enough guy but you're not experienced at working in a team - don't worry, it'll come with time" - then smile and walk away. -
You really need to take yourself more seriously and defend yourself. Make sure you come first at all times. If someone tries to fuck with you, offer to beat their ass the next time they say that again. Have the most respect for yourself and treat yourself like someone who you would die for. In the profession, really make it known that you are not someone to fuck with. Get them fired no matter the cost. Spit on them - it’s them or you.
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Wait, is he telling the truth, or is he just bullying everyone with no substance? If it's the latter, why can't a group of experienced devs set him up for failure an humiliation? Based on what you're saying it should be fairly easy to say "Oh I'm sorry, I never thought about it that way, could you handle that responsibility?" and then just keep documenting everything as he digs his own grave doing something that you know won't work.
Because if he can keep bullying you and you can't find one thing to prove how ignorant and wrong he is in his claims, then maybe he's right and your whole team just suck... -
@denialofservice you mentioned Linus twice now. Better not use that as an example. He was not a bully. Just really really harsh with the truth.
This guy sounds like the typical if I control the narrative and push everyone down I will rise.
Recently, our team hired an arrogant trainee-junior to the team, who turned out to be mean towards the other developers and in a habit of publicly mocking their opinions and going as far as cursing at them. He steals credit and insults others. He openly admits he's an offensive person and not a team player. When someone from the team speaks, he might break into laughter and say demeaning sentences like "that's so irrelevant oh my god did you really say that? hahaha". Our team consists of polite and introverted engineers who cannot stand up to bullies. Normally this kind of behavior won't be suitable even if you work in a burger shop especially not from a trainee. Let alone trainee, the rude behavior of Linus Torvalds was not tolerated, despite him being in the top position and a recognized star talent in the IT field.
I personally no longer feel comfortable speaking up during teams meetings or in the slack team chat. I'm afraid my opinions will be ridiculed or ashamed - likely will be called "irrelevant". I respond only if I'm directly addressed. We have important features coming up, requested by the customer, but I feel discouraged to publicly ask questions - I sort of feel having to regress into contributing less for the product. I also witness that other younger developers speak less now in meetings and team chat. Feels like everyone is hiding under the bed. Our product team used to have friendly working atmosphere but now the atmosphere is a bit like we're not a team anymore but a knot.
Lesson I learnt from here is: There is a reason why some companies have personality tests and HR interviews. Our proud short boarding process was consisting of a single technical interview. Perhaps at least a team interview should be held before hiring a person to the team, or the new hire should at least be posed a question: are you a team player? Technical skills can be taught more easily than social skills. If some youngster is unable to communicate in a civilized manner for even five minutes, it should raise some red flags. Otherwise you will end up with people who got refused from other companies which knew better.
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