I Sting Like A Bee

There is this colleague of mine at my employers'. To sum him up in 3 words - "Moronic, Hyper-vacillate, Lazy".

Seriously ... That's what he is. Or at least - that's my opinion!

Every single day I find him hyper vacillating over the silliest things. And the way he talks about his "workload" would bring tears to Ramadorai's eyes!
(Heck - I think even Hitler might cry!!!)


And what I find really silly and moronic about him is the fact that he doesn't want to get his concepts right. For example - if we are given a bug to fix - all he wants is to do something blindly in the hopes that it will work, instead of taking a scientific approach to it!
(Trust me when I say - I've seen one too many incidents to be "mistaken")

And to tell you about how lazy he is - ohhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyy gaaaaaaaaawd!!! He is as lazy as a sloth.


But, justice be done, his best talent is his ability to projects himself as "Super Man". He portrays himself as Einstein and his work as Rocket Science so damn well that people other than me (I know the "real facts" cause I work in the same bloody project!) think he is super smart.

And you know what - that "sells" at my current employers'. All you need to create is a hype and brouhaha about how much work your onsite PL is offloading onto your shoulder - and voila the folks around you automatically start worshiping you!


All these things said and done - he has one nasty habbit. He tends to stay late at work, and because of this - the little git doesn't like others going home early.
(To be more specific - He doesn't like ME heading for home at 7 PM!)

For the last couple of weeks I've been keeping quiet. After all he has more experience in the product - and the team in general - than me, and hence, I would definitely need his help to survive! So, I can't afford to pick up a fight with him.

But today, the little bastard got it left-right-top-and-bottom from me.

I don't know whether it was because I was very tired and irritable per se, or was it because I had intimated my manager that I wanted a release so that I can explore a move into a Sales and Marketing role that I might be offered (in another project i.e.), or was it simply cause - I was dying to give him a dressing down!

To explain in very brief what happened today - I pulled him into a conference room and told him "Dude ... You mind your business and I'll mind mine ... I know when to come and when to leave office ... If the manager or PL has a problem with that - let THEM ask me and I will explain to them. The last thing I want is YOU TO TELL ME what time I should come and leave or how I should do my work! Are we clear on this!!!"


Of course - it was not the most diplomatic of things to do (and I know it's even less diplomatic to write about that incident on my blog) - but what the heck ... He was asking for it!
(I must confess - It felt good!!!)


Tomorrow - when I get back to work - I am sure I can look forward to some trouble.
Knowing him - I am pretty sure he would've done some complaining, or at the very least some behind-my-back-politics that will ensure that I have some "answering" to do to my PL and managers!


Well all I can say is :

Two can play at that game!!!


:D