so there's this guy in my company... he's not in my department, but he's the manager of a department that mine works closely with on a daily basis.
he pretty much sucks at his job. in the last 6 months, everyone from his department has asked me or my boss about transferring into our department and we're scrambling every week to get stuff done whenever we need things from them. the problem is that there's no one really above the person in question. technically, the CFO is his boss, but our CFO is the definition of laizzes faire, at least when it comes to the day to day operations of our company. he does his thing, mostly doing crap with/for investors and occasionally steps in to oversee large expenditures like when we need to drop a couple dozen K's.
the person in question isn't doing anything worth bringing up to HR, he's just bad at his job and shit doesn't get done within his department unless us outside departments circumvent the chain of command or just do the things his department is responsible for ourselves. his responses to criticism or suggestions are textbook defensive and nothing changes.
so apparently the managers from a couple departments sat down and decided that they had to get the guy fired. the directive given to me was not to do anything deliberate, but to: not bust my ass to make things work that should have been taken care of on his end, not do his job for him / cover for his department (unless it would adversely affect a client, in which case, do it but make a stink about having to), and talk about what a piss-poor job he's doing with people in other departments who might not work with his department directly... the plan being that if we get the entire company talking about what a mess his department is, eventually the CFO will have to notice.
my question is, is this a messed up thing to do?
he pretty much sucks at his job. in the last 6 months, everyone from his department has asked me or my boss about transferring into our department and we're scrambling every week to get stuff done whenever we need things from them. the problem is that there's no one really above the person in question. technically, the CFO is his boss, but our CFO is the definition of laizzes faire, at least when it comes to the day to day operations of our company. he does his thing, mostly doing crap with/for investors and occasionally steps in to oversee large expenditures like when we need to drop a couple dozen K's.
the person in question isn't doing anything worth bringing up to HR, he's just bad at his job and shit doesn't get done within his department unless us outside departments circumvent the chain of command or just do the things his department is responsible for ourselves. his responses to criticism or suggestions are textbook defensive and nothing changes.
so apparently the managers from a couple departments sat down and decided that they had to get the guy fired. the directive given to me was not to do anything deliberate, but to: not bust my ass to make things work that should have been taken care of on his end, not do his job for him / cover for his department (unless it would adversely affect a client, in which case, do it but make a stink about having to), and talk about what a piss-poor job he's doing with people in other departments who might not work with his department directly... the plan being that if we get the entire company talking about what a mess his department is, eventually the CFO will have to notice.
my question is, is this a messed up thing to do?
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