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.
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.