Some situations will really test every ounce of patience in you!

This guy shares a story from a similar situation with his agency.

Check out how things escalated!

you want the files? sure here you go

December 2020 (middle of the pandemic), I was contracting as a stress engineer (basically check that things are strong enough etc).

This is where it gets weird!

One week before Christmas I get a call from the agency I was contracting with saying that my contract was not going to be renewed.

I live in the UK and had been working from home for about 6 months following the lockdown. I was part of a small team, one member of the team was a weasel in love with his own brain.

He used a lot of big words and waffled on in front of the client basically an expert turd polisher of the highest caliber. I was more succinct and just stuck to the facts when reporting on the progress of my analysis.

UH OH…

So the whole project was a bit of a crapshow. Client kept changing their mind about how they wanted this part analyzed. I was just a contractor and as such had to do what they said.

I never did find out why it was me they decided to can me but I can guess. I think the multiple changes and delays were put on me and weasel boy obviously convinced them he was very much more valuable than me.

For a bit of background this guy was a serious mess. I was once tasked with checking some of his analysis.

I did.

I found some errors in his calculations.

I corrected them and sent them back.

Things escalated soon after that!

He didn’t like that.

Not. One. Bit.

So, he takes the knife to her laughing as he does it and turns to me and says “why so Serious!?”, let’s put a smile on that face of yours…

… Sorry, lost my train of thought there. ANYWAY, I correct his calculations and give him a much simpler way of doing it.

Rather than use my method (which was correct) he spends TWO DAYS with his weaselly little face buried in a math textbook looking up a more advanced matrix method (which did the same thing as what I had given him but he was too busy over matrices and how great they are).

Bear in mind the following…as contractors we were there to get the job done. He had a method (the one I gave him) and he refused to use it. He wasted two days of the clients money looking up a method that did the same thing.

That’s INSANE!

A few days later we were making a coffee and he says that he had sent his calculation off to the client who was “really impressed with MY matrix method”. I was gob smacked.

You are a little AH and I hate you.

You wasted two days.

It isn’t YOUR METHOD. You read what others had done and you took the next step, you didn’t earn the knowledge for yourself so you don’t take any responsibility for it.

You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even know what you had, you’d patented it, and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you selling it, well…Sorry

So needless to say he was a weasel and a cerebral narcissist and he just needed dropkicking, but he gets kept on.

It went on and on!

Enter idiot #2. This guy is technically our leader and well he was a prick as well but I won’t get into that too much.

About 4 months after being let go, I have been scratching around for work for months. I am married and we have 3 kids. Savings used up, my eldest actually gave us money from his trust fund to tide us over.

I had taken a job in a warehouse working Sat-Sun-Mon doing 12 hour shifts. it was tough work and the supervisor was an idiot who needed kneecapping.

So I took this so that I could continue to look for work during the week. One day I am sitting there and my phone rings.

Idiot2 – Hi how is it going?
(**** you, you haven’t spoken to me in months!)

Things got heated up!

Me – Oh hi. How’s it going?

Idiot2 – Do you remember that analysis you did? Well do you still have the analysis files? The client has lost them
(you cheeky idiot! 4 months and not a word, never once tried to help me find work or even drop me a text and now you want MY help…oh my friend there is a special place in HELL for you, you soulless money grabbing idiot!!)

Me – Yes, I think I do, but they are not the latest iteration, you will have to check for some of the later updates

Idiot#2 Oh great, if you can send them that would be great!
(send them? why don’t I send you to The Backrooms where you can get a Stick Job from an Entity you idiot!?)

Me – Sure, will do.
I was gob smacked. How can people be such idiots? The client lost the files? So? Sounds like a personal problem.

They were not going anywhere with this conversation!

You might wonder why I gave him the files?

Well, because I knew something he didn’t know.

The reason why I was able to summarize the results of the analysis so quickly was because I had written some code to go through all the output files of the analysis and strip out only the results that we were interested in.

I gave him 40 files.

Have fun manually looking through them and stripping out what you need (it would take ages).

Oh and like I said…they were old files, out of date.

YIKES! That sounds rough!

Why would they not find a middle ground here?

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this one.

This user knows this guy missed a golden opportunity here!

This user has a great response for the boss!

This user knows there is something consistent here!

This user has a better answer for this guy.

This user knows this person could have charged consultant fee.

Somebody here has had a rough day!

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