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i build bridges. you may remember me mentioning a team member with an anger management issue. the dude is a jackass, and i spend way too much time tiptoeing around him. he is a fantastic engineer, and can crank numbers with the best of them. a few months ago, during a very important concrete pour on a bridge component, the contractor that we oversee started slipping on time with the concrete trucks. basically he ordered the trucks to show up loaded at a pace faster than he could pour. (he has 90 minutes to unload a batch). when this happens, trucks get sent back fully loaded and the material is wasted. no biggie. "angry guy" told one driver to leave, and stomped off pissed to tell the following rig the same thing. honestly, i dont know why the anger. we dont get a bill for the rejected material. NO BIGGIE! he came back really pissed off, and started throwing around 2x4 scraps. a bonafide true to life, ADULT TEMPER TANTRUM! i asked him to go home, and he refused. so i left and checked on other issues. again, a few weeks ago, he threw a hissie, and took vacation during a crucial time. we needed coordinates for a curvey section of a bridge. no biggie, i stepped up, and with a very creative excel worksheet, cranked out some numbers, checked them with what the contractor planned to build to, verified, yadyadayada. and off we went. fast forward to today. the ass is literally looking back to the past weeks to find our errors! i think he wants to show bossman that he is valuable, and ...basically he is a dcik. thanks for the vent. (oh, he rejected the trucks when they were 10 minutes over)