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Mainly for thise who were in the oldthread, but ill add cliffs anyway.
* new colleague is erratic and there are suspicions that he is an alcoholic.
* i come to sherdog for help and instead they sympathise with their alcoholic (tbc) brethren.
* i now return with more information.
So, the guy has made a bunch of enormous fuckups in the 2 months or so that hes been working with us.
He totalled one ofthe managers cars, lost some gear, broke some other expensive gear, sent unfinished work to clients etc.
This came to a head last friday.
He got sent out to complete a relatively easy task, should have taken 2 hours or so, mainly driving.
He returned 6 hours later and presented one of the directors with the controller that he had just broken some how.
The controllers have a removable antenna that is $600 to replace.
He snapped the thing in half some how and also lost the half that he snapped off.
Director said to him in front of 10-15 staff "you need to fix this RIGHT NOW, im sick of this shit, what the fuck is wrong with you? Order a new one NOW!" then stormed off.
So its 3pm at the time that exchange happens. We need the item by closing time otherwise our weekend and monday plans are all stuffed, we cant work without it. He has until 5pm to call our distributor and sort out a replacement antenna, easy right?
I walked past him at 4pm and asked "how much are the antennas nowadays?" and got the reply "i dunno".
"What do you mean you dont know? Disnt you just order one?"
"Nah, i havent had a chance to do it yet."
"Dude.. Order it NOW."
"Yeah ok ill do it now."
Left him with that and went back to my office.
5:15pm he walks into the office which i share with one other senior guy, straight past me and says to the other guy (who is his manager effectively) "oi, can you order an antenna for me?".
Other guy looked at him in disbelief before i butted in "Hey, that was your job, 2 hours ago". He replied "yeah but i dont know who to call".
I was a bit stunned by that point but managed to say "so ask me who to call.. 2 hours ago when they were still open.. Which i explained to you".
I wasnt yelling at him or being aggressive, i was just in a state of disbelief at his incompetence.
And, to be fair, we shouldnt have left the task to him.. But how much simpler could a task be then making a phone call and asking for something?
The last thing to happen was another colleague managed to call the distributors mobile and get someone to stay back late with a replacement antenna, we just needed to pick it up.
I ask captain awesome to pick up the thing, a 20 min drive, to which he responds "nah im pretty tired man, i gotta go home".
Anyway, hes a fucker, but hes been charging out lots to his company card at pubs inthe evening and we also realised that later friday evening when one of the accounts girls brought it up.
He gettin fired so hard on monday.
/vent
* new colleague is erratic and there are suspicions that he is an alcoholic.
* i come to sherdog for help and instead they sympathise with their alcoholic (tbc) brethren.
* i now return with more information.
So, the guy has made a bunch of enormous fuckups in the 2 months or so that hes been working with us.
He totalled one ofthe managers cars, lost some gear, broke some other expensive gear, sent unfinished work to clients etc.
This came to a head last friday.
He got sent out to complete a relatively easy task, should have taken 2 hours or so, mainly driving.
He returned 6 hours later and presented one of the directors with the controller that he had just broken some how.
The controllers have a removable antenna that is $600 to replace.
He snapped the thing in half some how and also lost the half that he snapped off.
Director said to him in front of 10-15 staff "you need to fix this RIGHT NOW, im sick of this shit, what the fuck is wrong with you? Order a new one NOW!" then stormed off.
So its 3pm at the time that exchange happens. We need the item by closing time otherwise our weekend and monday plans are all stuffed, we cant work without it. He has until 5pm to call our distributor and sort out a replacement antenna, easy right?
I walked past him at 4pm and asked "how much are the antennas nowadays?" and got the reply "i dunno".
"What do you mean you dont know? Disnt you just order one?"
"Nah, i havent had a chance to do it yet."
"Dude.. Order it NOW."
"Yeah ok ill do it now."
Left him with that and went back to my office.
5:15pm he walks into the office which i share with one other senior guy, straight past me and says to the other guy (who is his manager effectively) "oi, can you order an antenna for me?".
Other guy looked at him in disbelief before i butted in "Hey, that was your job, 2 hours ago". He replied "yeah but i dont know who to call".
I was a bit stunned by that point but managed to say "so ask me who to call.. 2 hours ago when they were still open.. Which i explained to you".
I wasnt yelling at him or being aggressive, i was just in a state of disbelief at his incompetence.
And, to be fair, we shouldnt have left the task to him.. But how much simpler could a task be then making a phone call and asking for something?
The last thing to happen was another colleague managed to call the distributors mobile and get someone to stay back late with a replacement antenna, we just needed to pick it up.
I ask captain awesome to pick up the thing, a 20 min drive, to which he responds "nah im pretty tired man, i gotta go home".
Anyway, hes a fucker, but hes been charging out lots to his company card at pubs inthe evening and we also realised that later friday evening when one of the accounts girls brought it up.
He gettin fired so hard on monday.
/vent
