I thought I would revive this thread as there has been a significant update.
Shortly after I wrote this thread I was retaliated against. Specifically, a complaint was lodged to my manager by an unnamed (to me) individual that I spent too much time on the Pelican Parts BBS at work. My reaction? I stopped accessing this forum at work and doubled-down on my effort at work. I still don't access this site at work anymore.
Over the past 2+ years, I have built strong relationships with other members of my team, including the problem individual. We now have a decent working relationship. An outside person was brought in to be our team lead, but I am the person that is generally contacted for expertise on my system.
Just to recap:
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Originally Posted by legion
The first incidence occured when I was assigned to convince another team to use our technology. It wasn't the best fit, but the business side wanted it. I knew the other team wasn't overly enthused, so I laid out the best logical argument I could muster. I scheduled a series of meetings where in each I focused on explaining and getting buy-in on one aspect of my argument. The coworker in question was assigned to be my backup. After the first meeting he basically decided he hated the other team's lead and started projecting problems onto him. He decided that this other team had it out for us and wanted to develop a competing technology. (The did not and they don't have the time or the budget to entertain such ideas.) He would loudly complain about the team lead at every opportunity and call him names in meetings. He'd bring up the guy to bash just to bash him, and if someone else mentioned a problem they were having he'd start in with: "At least your problem isn't as bad as..."
During the third meeting he started screaming at the other team's lead accusing him of the things he was projecting onto him. I simply stopped inviting him to meetings after that as he proved to be a hindrance rather than a help. The damage was done, and I ended up not making the "sale" as it were.
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Shortly after I posted this, my team and the one mentioned above were brought under the same manager, though the person who was at the receiving end of the tirade left for a development opportunity. Today it was announced that the person identified above as "the other team's lead" is now my new manager.