Just had a boomer with 40 years of experience throw me, a 1 year vet in the industry, under the bus to our boss because I ‘took too long’ to do something so he couldn’t finish his work, even though I tried coordinating the handoff to him 2 hours before the end of the day.
Same guy who loudly listens to right wing talk radio (Glenn beck and Megyn Kelly of all people) from across my desk. The day after the kidnapping of Maduro I made some comment about being woken up to news of an invasion and the guy somehow got super defensive about it not being an invasion and US just taking a bad guy out.
Like, I’m always polite and personable but I just want to go mask off. I’m not going to throw people under the bus, and hell, if I did, I’d still get fucked. In a reasonable world my boss would be like, ‘dude you are a grown man complaining about the most junior person on the team’
But this will likely result in me getting fired for undermining the performance of the company. Fucking ridiculous man.
what a massive loser. i’m going on something like 20ish years relevant experience and i learned pretty early on never to officially single out anyone else for blame / always collectively accept blame (“we dropped the ball there”) on whatever deliverable to the bosses missed a deadline. and only ever drop a specific name to a higher up if it’s something safety or toxic-harassment related and to do that privately and verbally/offline.
if it’s any consolation, everybody with experience probably knows this guy is a blame-shifting loser. the only people who do shit like this are insecure and likely skirting the line of incompetent. so they do shit like this out of fear. the boss probably didn’t feel like getting into it with him face to face, because who wants to hear more bullshit? if i walked into a completely new team and one guy was pointing at a junior person and blaming them for a missed deadline, my read is that while that might be true… the accuser is the real problem. senior people are supposed to help junior people so the “team” can succeed.
Missed deadlines are never a junior’s fault. Is always either that the deadline was nonsense to begin with or someone lost something because there was a lapse in communication across multiple people. Anyone who has any amount of experience in a field should be able to recognize that.
Shifting blame is always part of the game in corpo world, but the most effective way to shift it is to flood the zone and not single anyone out because then it becomes an issue. Just offer a series of solutions and ask them to pick one. If you know the solution, but don’t want to make it look like you or anyone else messed up (assuming it was a mistake), offer 3 or 4 solutions with the only reasonable one being your solution. Middle management loves multiple choice and it lets them give options to other people making it look like they did due diligence.
I have a lot of control over workflow and procedure where I’m at and I’ve always found it to be really easy to take a lot of blame on myself and just say something like “we’re working on a better workflow for this currently, if there’s any other issues you want us to address while we’re at it please let me know”.
This also works if you did get singled out for something, just don’t play the blame game back and deflect with a flood of info.
He seems to be really knowledgeable and good at his job but now that I think about it, he’s always name dropping other people when any problem occurs. Shit, either this company is seemingly full of these types or that’s just the nature of kkrapital.
Absolute bums, man. I’m not the best at my job but I’m dedicated to establishing myself in this field and yet I’m always being looked at when anything bad happens, even on things I wasn’t even involved in. I’m the youngest and 2nd newest member in the department, no shit I fucking suck. I feel like I’m being kept around just to throw under the bus when shit hits the fan in a project.
lol i hope so. after 40 years, he has no excuse to not know everything there is to know!
shame he never learned how to develop as a team player or even the most basic leadership abilities.
ive met a few people like this, who, of course, learn how not to hit themselves in the dick after swinging a hammer for 30+ years… but otherwise completely ossify into a prickly asshole instead of learning to play well with others. they probably think it gives them job security to not help junior people along, but really it isolates them from collaboration and new ideas. also, it just sucks to suck.
this can absolutely bite them in the ass if there’s a major reshuffling and/or they get separated. people like that get real comfy in their fief and can fall apart if they have to join a new team/learn new shit, because they forgot how to not be a douche.