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Please allow me to vent. I have the lamest co-worker. Complete idiot, lazy, horrible work ethics, and generally crappy to be around. But he is like a politician, let’s call him Mr. Arse. One other engineer and myself work great together. Mr. Arse estimated this one portion of work to take one week, plus overtime. He sold himself to our boss, that he has done this before multiple times, and could teach us what he knows. When the work started, Mr. Arse calls in sick. So my friend and I proceed with the work, without much experience. We quickly figure it out, and take care of the elaborate measurements in 1.5 days. All the data gets calculated, in another whole day. That’s it, we are done. Along comes Mr. Arse, from his sick days (dehydration). He looks over our work, and it is immediately clear that he has no idea how to do the work, so he cannot check us. Boss man, sees him pondering out work, comes over, AND EXPLAINS THE PROCESS TO HIM! Then the two idiots try to tell us what we did wrong, how we could have done it better, blah blah blah. Every question they had, we answered and explained. Effen bulletproof.

What is pi$$ing me off it that:

Mr. Arse gets all the credit, and is considered the expert. I hear everyday, “check this with Mr. Arse”, “run it by Mr. Arse first”.
He milks overtime, when I effen know that he is always late and leaves early.
My boss, is a typical genius engineer that cannot think outside of any box. Only black and white.
Mr. Arse can play politics and come off squeaky clean.
The dude is an idiot, and cannot do anything.

One time, we had to do some quick and dirty survey work. I was told to work with the idiot. Mr. Arse said, I want to use this rod. I told him no, that is the incorrect rod. But he said, “I have done this a million times, that rod will make it fast”. Ok, so we drive 1 hour to the job site, set up, for another hour, layout points. Genius tells me, “I have more experience, so you hold the rod” “OOOOKKKAY! I look on the plans and find out that a certain portion of the bridge is supposed to be _______meters in the air. I give the idiot the info, and hold up the rod. I schit you not, he stares at the rod through the equipment for around 10 minutes and I can tell from his body language he is confused. He says, “hmmm, something is wrong…with the plans”. I tried to hold the smirk in, and tell him, “well no, this is a metric bridge, with metric plans, you my friend, made us bring an English/standard rod”

I am gonna secretly undermine this basteage. We already are enemies because I caught him logging in 50 hours of OT every month, even for Sundays that nobody worked. Stupid crook.