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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Talk to your boss. Then arrange for your office staff to sneak into his room at night, and take turns beating him with socks full of spare change. That should get him on board.  |
So far I like this suggestion best.
I don't think the boss is unaware. The boss has had to clean up after this guy many times. He knows our relative strengths and weaknesses. It's just that......we're people whose principles are not flexed. My boss places a MASSIVE emphasis, at least in his decisions, on loyalty. He has known this guy a long time. And that is why he is still here.
Heck, it's even worse than that. In addition to having had to clean up after this guy many times, the reason he is in this office right now is because he abandoned his last post. He was the Project Manager at one of our projects. He called our boss one day and said he is leaving. He wouldn't say why. He said he is leaving in two weeks and if there is another job for him in Seattle, great. Otherwise, he quits. Our boss fought hard to get him a seat here. Quite frankly, if I know I can't trust you, and have to clean up your messes frequently, and they you abandon a peach job I gave you......then you're on your own. Not our boss, though. Yeah, it seems pathological, but that's our boss. I would take a bullet for that guy.