Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to talk about throwing someone right under the management bus because they are lazy.
The Escalation
Have you gotten to work with someone that just really bothered you so much that you eventually alerted their boss?
I've been working in the space that I'm at for quite some time. Years, though I won't say exactly how many, but years. I'm not arrogant about it, but I am confident in my knowledge and my abilities with those years of experience. True knowledge, not fake shit. I really love helping people if they ask me to help them understand something or if they are confused, or don't get a particular topic. That stuff is very exciting for me!
With this experience in the field comes a lot of exposure and meeting a lot of people. There are lots of personalities that one encounters throughout our lives and our professional lives. Some people we get along with really well, while others we don't get along so well. I thankfully have far LESS people I don't get along with than I have people I do well with.
I'm working with an individual, let's call him Dave. I've been working with him since sometime last year and he is supposed to be my counterpart on the other side of the project team. That's about where the commonalities end. I've had the worst experience with him than I've had with anyone else, and that's saying something!
I put in hours of work every single week to get things going, keep my team on task but I am also determined not to let this project fail, so I have been doing HIS tasks like reminding his peeps of what they need to do, ask for updates and just be a team player. I'm at the end of my rope with this fool though, because there are a lot of things I can't, nor should be, help with on their side. Sure enough, this dude completely dropped the ball on something that I reminded them about for MONTHS and things went south.
Of course in those situations I keep my leadership team well aware of the situation. I'm also very good because I've got extensive documentation, so much so that it's almost like a lawyer compiling evidence for a court case. I have ample ability to defend myself given the needed circumstance. Sure enough, the circumstance arose and I was all over this dude like white on rice.
We had a nice chat with my leaders and theirs, I had ample evidence and points, and slammed him five ways from Sunday with facts and clear evidence of what was being discussed. The funny thing is that he was trying to say he's been participating all along, when my entire team knows that's a load of horse shit, and he knows its horse shit but he's trying to save his job, or at least his spot on the team.
I'm not sure how things are going to unfold with the dude but this is one of the most egregious examples I've had to deal with in which someone was blatantly not doing their work, not paying attention and then getting upset that I'm calling them out on their bullshit. HA, but that shit ain't gonna fly with me. I've got zero sympathy for the dude. There have been no attempts to pull me aside and say "let's work on this, or I've got something going on and I'm sorry".
It's a cutthroat world out there, and I have no time to deal with complete liars and people who refuse to do work.
What about you, have you dealt with people who have tried to feign they were working when they really weren't doing anything of the sort? Let me know in the comments!
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Nice train set and layout! HO/OO if I am not mistaken.
Tough work situation. I used to come across it all the time too, It must be easiest for upper management to stick with the Dave's of this world hoping they will learn or others will just pick up the slack rather than to get somebody new.
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You did the right thing.
There are always two actions follow ups and escalations. If follow ups fails go to escalation. And if escalation fails something is definitely wrong with the environment you are in.
We all deal with such people at our work place and what you did was completely understandable. Like you said it's a cutthroat world. Its either your throat or him but the management will always ask for someone on the sacrificial alter when things go bad. Better Dave than you.
Stay clear, stay safe.
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Great way to go! Take the direct route and reveal what's really going on here. Especially in the workplace, if you give people an inch, they might as well take a mile. I've not had such experience yet, but I think when it does happen, I'll probably do the same thing more or less.
Sometimes, we really have coworkers who only work for their jobs and don’t think about the well-being of the whole team. As long as they’re doing fine in their tasks, that’s all that matters to them.😞