Co-worker Sabotage

[cracka]

Anyone have a co-worker pull some shady crap?

Here's my story.  I'm working on a project with another co-worker in a different wing of the building, come back to my office ~5:30 and bump into a friend.  He asks me where were you all day?  I'm all like  was helping out Joe on X project.   

The friend tells me that D-bag Jimmy kept stopping by the Manager's Office saying I can't find Cracka anywhere (buddy sits across from the boss).  I'm like D-bag Jimmy came by Joe's office and talked to us? 

Then I realize D-bag Jimmy is making it look I'm MIA to the Manager.   

This happened last year on a really nice day in April.  Found out D-bag Jimmy pulled the same crap on another co-worker yesterday (one-trick f'n pony).

Anyone else work with a D-bag like Jimmy?  What you got for battle stories.


ps -- please pardon the  nature of this thread.  When I worked construction in college, this kind of incident would be laughable.  However, in corporate america this kind of crap has some serious implications.

[CNS]

Anyone have a co-worker pull some shady crap?

Here's my story.  I'm working on a project with another co-worker in a different wing of the building, come back to my office ~5:30 and bump into a friend.  He asks me where were you all day?  I'm all like  was helping out Joe on X project.   

The friend tells me that D-bag Jimmy kept stopping by the Manager's Office saying I can't find Cracka anywhere (buddy sits across from the boss).  I'm like D-bag Jimmy came by Joe's office and talked to us? 

Then I realize D-bag Jimmy is making it look I'm MIA to the Manager.   

This happened last year on a really nice day in April.  Found out D-bag Jimmy pulled the same crap on another co-worker yesterday (one-trick f'n pony).

Anyone else work with a D-bag like Jimmy?  What you got for battle stories.


ps -- please pardon the  nature of this thread.  When I worked construction in college, this kind of incident would be laughable.  However, in corporate america this kind of crap has some serious implications.

You need to find out where Jimmy hangs after work.  Then you need to fight him.  Right in the face.

[OK_Cat]

sounds like you need to challenge Jimmy to a mexican standoff.

[steve dave]

Maybe let your manager know where you are during the working day he's supposed to be managing you

[cracka]

Maybe let your manager know where you are during the working day he's supposed to be managing you

It is a real open work policy, I see my Manager like once a month to discuss work issues.  Lot's of trust, until someone starts this underhanded crap.

[WillieWatanabe]

Maybe let your manager know where you are during the working day he's supposed to be managing you

[OK_Cat]

sounds like cracka and this "joe" fella have a homoerotic relationship going on.

[CNS]

Maybe let your manager know where you are during the working day he's supposed to be managing you

It is a real open work policy, I see my Manager like once a month to discuss work issues.  Lot's of trust, until someone starts this underhanded crap.

This means that your manager doesn't give a crap about you as long as you get your crap done. 

Given this, who cares?

Just get your crap done.

[Poster formerly known as jthutch]

One of our employees, and we still don't have proof who, removed and lost all the keys to everyone of our trucks that we use everyday.  He/She must have came in after everyone left and went through all the vehicles.  There were 3 vehicles that did not lose their keys.  But pretty stupid stuff and if that person is found out will be fired on the spot.

[cracka]

Jimmy is a D-bag, plain and simple.  I was more interested in similar situations which you may have encountered at work.   Like where you have a co-worker that tries to sabotages other employees like Jthutch's response.

Interested in your stories, so I know what else to watch out for.

[pufiZzle]

One day.......when I was on my lunch break, one of my emloyees asked me to come help them on a problem they were having.  I was gone for like, maybe 2 minutes.  When I came back someone had eaten over half of my wendy's french fries.  And they were the new sea salt ones too.  When I find out who it was I probably won't fire them.  I'll probably instead decide to rough ridin' end their pathetic life.  

[WillieWatanabe]

One day.......when I was on my lunch break, one of my emloyees asked me to come help them on a problem they were having.  I was gone for like, maybe 2 minutes.  When I came back someone had eaten over half of my wendy's french fries.  And they were the new sea salt ones too.  When I find out who it was I probably won't fire them.  I'll probably instead decide to rough ridin' end their pathetic life. 

[wetwillie]

One day.......when I was on my lunch break, one of my emloyees asked me to come help them on a problem they were having.  I was gone for like, maybe 2 minutes.  When I came back someone had eaten over half of my wendy's french fries.  And they were the new sea salt ones too.  When I find out who it was I probably won't fire them.  I'll probably instead decide to effing end their pathetic life.  

Aren't you the guy that ran like a bitch when some guy with a gun robbed the place? 

[WillieWatanabe]

Have a coworker, who is actually in a position above me(but not my boss) who likes to run to the Boss and take credit for things he doesn't do. He may help some, but not any more than anyone else. But he goes to the Boss and gives a status report and fails to mention the others who actually did more of the work.

He has also gone to the Boss and threw a guy or two under the bus on the some projects. Luckily the Boss knows this guy is semi-douchery.

[cracka]

Here is another situation that I call Project Stealing.

4 of us are working on  a project that is semi-important. My goal is to do an analysis, kill the issues, and get on to more important work.  One of the project members, let's call her Suzy Q, has other intentions.

Suzy Q greatly exagerates the issues we identify and turns the proverbial molehill into a mountain.  Ends up with our Manager getting worked up and taking it to the Corpoarte Board.

Next Suzy Q seeks total control of the project.  She accomplishes this by setting up Project Meetings and sending out double invitations.  In other words she'll send out 1 set of invitations to the other 3 employees working on the project, and a second set of invitations to High Level Managers (who are all in a frizzy) who appear at the last part of the meeting, which can be really confusing since nobody else expects Board Member X to show up.  Another tactic is the last minute meeting invitation.  Where she schedules a meeting with High Level Managers and then 1 hour before the meeting Suzy Q invites the rest of us -- who are really unprepared  -- to show up.  It's not like you can't show, when your Manager and 2nd Level boss are there.  This allows her to dominate the agenda, she looks like the only one who cares about the project and is asked to lead the project.  Lots of credit stealing that Willie Wannabe described is also going on.

This project is a mess.  Lots of political implications since Suzy Q has stirred the pot into a boil and the issues implicate a different work group.

My solution was to get the the hell out.

[CHONGS]

One time this one b-dag I worked for tried to sabotage my important project involving high energy gamma radiation.  He was working along along similar lines, but he (and I) knew his proton-injector couldn't possibly work as well as the one I had just developed.  He didn't know I had set up a webcam on my lab-space (so I could check the meter-readings remotely) and I caught him switching the polarization of my laser which would cause major damage to my optics if I didn't notice!  Well, later that night I went back into the lab, corrected my polarization and then I  changed the angle of his deflector.  The next day he got a beam of gamma rays to his crotch that lit his underwear on fire!  The whole lab was rolling!  He probably won't be able to have kids for the next ten years.  

[_33]

Maybe D-Bag Jimmy was looking for you so he could give you a present.  Sounds like a great guy.

[AbeFroman]

I dont have co workers that can sabotage me. Chain of command basically goes: Owner ---> Me ---> 15 or so mexicans

Feels good man  

[Poster formerly known as jthutch]

I dont have co workers that can sabotage me. Chain of command basically goes: Owner ---> Me ---> 15 or so mexicans

Feels good man  

So you are a forman on a roofing crew?

[bakerman]

I dont have co workers that can sabotage me. Chain of command basically goes: Owner ---> Me ---> 15 or so mexicans

Feels good man  

You're already mumped if you think that those 15 or so mexicans can't/and or won't go over you or start doing things to make you look like crap, if you piss them off.

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

Co-worker a few years ago took my stapler and put it in a jello mold.  I know it's from The Office, but he actually did it.

BOY WAS I PISSED!   

[CNS]

Here is another situation that I call Project Stealing.

4 of us are working on  a project that is semi-important. My goal is to do an analysis, kill the issues, and get on to more important work.  One of the project members, let's call her Suzy Q, has other intentions.

Suzy Q greatly exagerates the issues we identify and turns the proverbial molehill into a mountain.  Ends up with our Manager getting worked up and taking it to the Corpoarte Board.

Next Suzy Q seeks total control of the project.  She accomplishes this by setting up Project Meetings and sending out double invitations.  In other words she'll send out 1 set of invitations to the other 3 employees working on the project, and a second set of invitations to High Level Managers (who are all in a frizzy) who appear at the last part of the meeting, which can be really confusing since nobody else expects Board Member X to show up.  Another tactic is the last minute meeting invitation.  Where she schedules a meeting with High Level Managers and then 1 hour before the meeting Suzy Q invites the rest of us -- who are really unprepared  -- to show up.  It's not like you can't show, when your Manager and 2nd Level boss are there.  This allows her to dominate the agenda, she looks like the only one who cares about the project and is asked to lead the project.  Lots of credit stealing that Willie Wannabe described is also going on.

This project is a mess.  Lots of political implications since Suzy Q has stirred the pot into a boil and the issues implicate a different work group.

My solution was to get the the hell out.

What kind of work do you do?

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

Here is another situation that I call Project Stealing.

4 of us are working on  a project that is semi-important. My goal is to do an analysis, kill the issues, and get on to more important work.  One of the project members, let's call her Suzy Q, has other intentions.

Suzy Q greatly exagerates the issues we identify and turns the proverbial molehill into a mountain.  Ends up with our Manager getting worked up and taking it to the Corpoarte Board.

Next Suzy Q seeks total control of the project.  She accomplishes this by setting up Project Meetings and sending out double invitations.  In other words she'll send out 1 set of invitations to the other 3 employees working on the project, and a second set of invitations to High Level Managers (who are all in a frizzy) who appear at the last part of the meeting, which can be really confusing since nobody else expects Board Member X to show up.  Another tactic is the last minute meeting invitation.  Where she schedules a meeting with High Level Managers and then 1 hour before the meeting Suzy Q invites the rest of us -- who are really unprepared  -- to show up.  It's not like you can't show, when your Manager and 2nd Level boss are there.  This allows her to dominate the agenda, she looks like the only one who cares about the project and is asked to lead the project.  Lots of credit stealing that Willie Wannabe described is also going on.

This project is a mess.  Lots of political implications since Suzy Q has stirred the pot into a boil and the issues implicate a different work group.

My solution was to get the the hell out.

Sounds like you & Suzy might just have different P.O.V.s about what's important.  Still, it's totally ridiculous of her to hide the ball about who will be at a meeting, or when a meeting will be held.  Sounds like someone I would mock with others from my office over drinks.  This may be your solution -- it's probably a very effective way of getting her actions public.

[_33]

Suzy Q sounds like a genius.

[Dr Rick Daris]

i pretty much get to fly solo, but i would lol and roll eyes a lot at someone who was trying to sabotage if given the oppy.