Coworker at my office. I have been working at the company for 3 months before him and he gets hired.
1.5 weeks into working HR calls him in, and privately interviews me too. He was harassing the security guards because he was mad he had to go through the metal detectors because he hadn't gotten his security badge yet. There is a 2 week wait. I was thinking to myself, "Get over it man. All of us had to go through that." I totally backed him up when they interviewed me because I figured it was just a one time thing. They were going to fire him. And he is still being an ahole whenever he gets the chance, just not to the security guards anymore. I was good friends with this security guard before this incident, too.
He nitpicks on everything you say. There was a problem that was presented to our department which we had to fix, and it looked like it was an issue that was created by a process he did. It was a minor issue that I could have fixed in 5 minutes, but since he is the new worker on review, I decided to not go around him. He wasn't there that day, so I actually call up the complaints people to explain the situation so that he could fix it. Mind you, my boss wasn't happy about it and tried to contact him in which he never replied.
The next day I present the issue to him before our boss gets here so he can resolve it quick and he gets defensive, so I go back to my office and just do my work ignoring his snide comment. Later, he tells me the solution that he did, implying that it was such an "easy solution" (I am a better coder than him). I just mention that I didn't want to go around him, since the boss put him in charge of that process (which I have 3 months more experience in it than him + formal training of course I don't mention any of this). Guess what he says.... "I thought we were all supposed to be in the same group", he starts trying to accuse me of trying to get him in trouble and crap like that (remember I went through all that trouble so that he wouldn't get in trouble). If the issue wasn't resolved by him that morning before my boss came in, he probably would have been in a lot of trouble.
So I just cut off the "conversation" saying I had a lot of stuff to do. He is having problems with some of the other workers, too, but since I work with him, I get most of the flack. Get this, he is about 40 and he still acts like a child. If he was just out of college, I would understand, but it is like he thinks the world owes him or something. He said this to me and my supervisor right after the security incident once like he was the one being harrassed (I was there when he harrassed the guard, too), "I don't know what it is, but ever since I was a kid, it seems like everyone is out to get me." I really shouldn't have backed him up, nor should I have gone through the trouble of saving his ass when he ignores our boss' calls.
1.5 weeks into working HR calls him in, and privately interviews me too. He was harassing the security guards because he was mad he had to go through the metal detectors because he hadn't gotten his security badge yet. There is a 2 week wait. I was thinking to myself, "Get over it man. All of us had to go through that." I totally backed him up when they interviewed me because I figured it was just a one time thing. They were going to fire him. And he is still being an ahole whenever he gets the chance, just not to the security guards anymore. I was good friends with this security guard before this incident, too.
He nitpicks on everything you say. There was a problem that was presented to our department which we had to fix, and it looked like it was an issue that was created by a process he did. It was a minor issue that I could have fixed in 5 minutes, but since he is the new worker on review, I decided to not go around him. He wasn't there that day, so I actually call up the complaints people to explain the situation so that he could fix it. Mind you, my boss wasn't happy about it and tried to contact him in which he never replied.
The next day I present the issue to him before our boss gets here so he can resolve it quick and he gets defensive, so I go back to my office and just do my work ignoring his snide comment. Later, he tells me the solution that he did, implying that it was such an "easy solution" (I am a better coder than him). I just mention that I didn't want to go around him, since the boss put him in charge of that process (which I have 3 months more experience in it than him + formal training of course I don't mention any of this). Guess what he says.... "I thought we were all supposed to be in the same group", he starts trying to accuse me of trying to get him in trouble and crap like that (remember I went through all that trouble so that he wouldn't get in trouble). If the issue wasn't resolved by him that morning before my boss came in, he probably would have been in a lot of trouble.
So I just cut off the "conversation" saying I had a lot of stuff to do. He is having problems with some of the other workers, too, but since I work with him, I get most of the flack. Get this, he is about 40 and he still acts like a child. If he was just out of college, I would understand, but it is like he thinks the world owes him or something. He said this to me and my supervisor right after the security incident once like he was the one being harrassed (I was there when he harrassed the guard, too), "I don't know what it is, but ever since I was a kid, it seems like everyone is out to get me." I really shouldn't have backed him up, nor should I have gone through the trouble of saving his ass when he ignores our boss' calls.
