I appreciate the input thus far, guys, but keep it coming. The only thing keeping me from being a "disgruntled" employee at this point is the lack of a firearm.
j/k
Brian, you sound like you've worked here before. And I agree with you that the situation with this individual is never going to change. I've watched this guy chase people from this office over the years with his tactics and the worst part about it is, he's viewed as the "golden boy" by the owner. Everyone else in the office absolutely hates him and his tactics — he tries to rule with intimidation. It works on most people; they just cower when he pulls his $hit because they're afraid of him running to the owner and selling him a bill of goods.
He has a "revolving $hit list" and it just so happens to be my turn at the top of that list right now. At the same time, people who were on his list two weeks ago are now his "best buddies" who can do no wrong. I actually called him on his crap this morning and told him, "we're on the same team here, why can't you just sit down and talk with me about whatever your problem is?"
His response was, "Fuck you, Rob." And he said this in earshot of other employees that he was unaware were in the vicinity. These people heard both sides of the "conversation" and couldn't believe what they heard, but at the same time, they
could believe it because they've been there before personally.
Afraid of work? Not me. I write for a newspaper, which involves pretty much being "on call" 24 hours a day. In the past, I've done things like spend all night on the scene of a river rescue, covered structure fires in the middle of the night in the dead of winter, I've covered appearances of two sitting US presidents and I even stood before the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. as smoke rolled from a gapig hole in its side. In the past two weeks, I've had to cancel two scheduled practices with the band because of last minute assignments, which is cool — priorities and all. I also do photography, page layout (pagination), graphic design, special publication design and I coordinate and edit a weekly School News Page which involves writers and photographers from eight area school districts, even though my job description is "news reporter."
This guy has never taken a photo in his life because he can't, he wouldn't know what to do if he sat down in front of Quark (the computer program most newspapers use for pagination), he never leaves the confines of his desk and as far as his writing goes, let's just say it only takes about 30 seconds to get on the AP wire, select an interesting story and put your name on it, then add a few additional lines of crap to legitimize it.
That's plagiarism, BTW, and it's illegal.
Baceman, The Peterson Principle sounds interesting. I'm Googling right now.
Thanks again for the input. Back to the classifieds I go.
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That's what she said.
Thanks for your $.02.
