Honestly I would report their assholish behaviour to management and even tell them they are kick-ass but their assholeishness makes everyone miserable and not really care about the project.
What if the asshole is management? I’m not being challenging–I’m really curious about this stuff. (And again–there’s a segment of the population which is both…worst mix ever.)
I can’t help but think that this is relevant.
Give me the kind dummy, any day. I can be patient. I can teach. But I have a legal right not to be a victim.
(I had a toxic boss from hell. It drove me to drink. I lost seven good years of my life, hiding in a bottle from that monster. Never again.)
If I were an employer, and had to choose which type to be my employee, it would be harder, because the kind dummy can do a lot of serious harm, but I’d still choose him over the competent jerk. The dummy might harm my property, but the jerk will harm me.
*I’m *not even on Team Rachel. That bitch be cray-zay.
Obvious sock/troll is obvious. May as well get the pool started for the inevitable banning…
I say he’s gone by 3:00 PM Central on 4/7/2012.
No, this one’s playing the game pretty well - comes on strong, backs off, comes on strong again - I’m going to give him until mid-April - say April 15th.
Hmm… Add “Clueless Git” into the options and you’ve hit the trifecta.
Seriously. Go away and come back come back when you’ve gotten a passing grade in Personality 101.
I don’t know who the OP is, beyond that he is clearly a git.
I was wondering that too, about if it would be harder from the boss perspective. Toxic bosses are the worst—but again, I wonder if the trade off of frustration with dealing with incompetency, slow moving, bumbling is worth it?
I never get these games right. If I pick “mid afternoon today” the tool usually lasts another two months.
Last week I picked one to make it to July 15th and he was out the door by 3 the next day.
So in the hope that I’m the reverse-logic barometer of this stuff…
I pick…
July 15th, 2012
Then I go to their boss. Same as if management was sexually harassing me.
Also prcupines.
EDIT: Also I can spell.
EDIT 2: Also I really really can’t spell.
Much depends on the individual making the choice. Some of us are tougher and thicker-skinned than others; some of us are more sensitive to unfair criticism than others. In my case, the evil, toxic, nasty, poisonous, vicious, monster of a boss also caused a degradation of my ability to do my job, by driving me to drink and into a nervous breakdown. So, in addition to all else, there is, in real life, an overlap among the effects.
Speaking as one who is over-sensitive, I have to vote firmly in favor of the good-natured incompetent over the able, but vicious, co-worker.
Someone came up with a similar discriminant, which tends to correlate with liberal/conservative views: would you rather be cruel, or stupid? I vote for stupid…
(Hey, I got a cameo in Tom Weller’s book “Cvltvre Made Stvpid!” Stupid is my middle name!)
Wise. Por que no las dos, indeed!
Yeah, I can deal with asshole coworkers as long as I can basically put them on my ignore list. If I was stuck on a project with one, well, there would be only one survivor. It’s happened before, and if I have to go head-to-head, so far the other one has lost.
So give me the dumb one and we’ll all keep our jobs. Maybe he/she will even learn something in the process.
I work with, and manage, both types. I prefer the dummies because they’re nicer people.
I think this is one of those times where, if you are wondering who “that person” is in the room, you are “that person”. I work with a few dummies but I don’t think any one is mean - so…I guess I’m the mean one. Huh.
Although - I do get along with most of the people I work with - I just try really really hard to avoid the “dummies”.
Are you Yakuza? :smack: :dubious:
Why are they eating out of a hat?
ETA: Ah, they’re choosing numbers from out of a hat. I thought they were taking out the crunchy or the soft tacos. Why didn’t mom tell them to calm down while she set up the numbers and wheel with dad? So many questions.
June 20th, 2012
I thought about this thread today at work and I had an interaction with one of the dummies…and I’m starting to think that incompetence can be as damaging as a big ego. I think I’m changing my idea to “it depends on the impact on the team.”