Alt: One of my colleagues
He still gets my back up. I don't know whether anybody else in the department finds him equally abrasive, and I'm reluctant to say anything for fear that word will spread that I don't like him.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:48, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

It's on the internet now.
Everyone will know by tomorrow.
( girlinthehole, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)

*sighs* I anticipate Chompy linking us to a BBC news article on it before the week is through.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)

Is this Mr "Do you know who I am?"
It's fucking awkward trying to establish whether you're alone in your distaste for a colleague and who it's safe to speak to about it. I suggest you take up smoking, that's where all the good gossip is.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:54, Reply)

It is indeed
A friend entirely unconnected with any of those people agreed that anybody who behaves like that is a cock. Unfortunately there's a distinct lack of smokers in my group, so I suspect if I were to start then it would just be me and the Greek woman he's probably never spoken to anyway.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)

My cunning plan has been foiled by an abject failure on my part to research the specifics of the situation
If this is a course you're interested in pursuing, I suggest you start with the people you genuinely trust (if there are any) and make incredibly polite, non-insidious comments about his productivity.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)

I don't think his productivity is a problem in the slightest.
The fact that he's a cock is a more pressing issue.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)

I've jumped the gun again
In my experience anyone who's enough of a twat is also a shite worker. Except all those shining beacons of efficiency on The Apprentice, of course.

But then I have no idea what you do for a living
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)

I'm sure there's nothing wrong with his productivity; my work is entirely unconnected to his so I shall give him the benefit of the doubt
Unfortunately he seems to regard the world with a permanent sneer, and unless I can say something which raises a laugh and breaks the perma-sneer, I just get the overwhelming feeling whenever I talk to him that he's not listening, he's just looking at me and thinking "I'm better than you."

And then there's the whole "Do you know who I am?" thing, which he's admittedly only done a couple of times, but that's a couple of times too many in my book. I've met people far more famous than him who've managed not to be complete thundercunts so I don't know what his problem is.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:12, Reply)

NAME AND SHAME

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:14, Reply)

Passive aggressive note on the microwave and fridge.
Give them faces that look at eachother and say "Do you know who I am?" and "Yeah I know you're a twat"
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:17, Reply)

Or just say no when he next says it

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:20, Reply)

Is he actually famous or does he consider himself such a big wheel that your opinion is of no interest to him?
Edit: Excellent use of "thundercunts", take three points
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:18, Reply)

He is a minor celebrity when he's not doing what he does in this department
But nobody outside London and possibly Manchester would know him from Adam, and even then they'd only know him if they listened to a specific genre of music.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:20, Reply)

Again, not knowing what you do for a living
Does this minor celebrity status have any bearing whatsoever on his work? I can hardly get away with being a workshy loafer on account of my 45 minutes of televised fame in February, and by Norfolk standards that absolutely is celebrity. I was on the radio and everything.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:23, Reply)

Nope. The two things are entirely unrelated. I imagine that where he does the thing-for-which-he's-famous he's probably reasonably important
But here, he's on the lowest possible rung of the ladder until the work experience students arrive in the summer.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:32, Reply)

Well he can get to fuck then can't he
I'd like to advise you not to let you get to him if he's of no consequence and doesn't affect your workload, but that's not what I'd do in your position so it'd be dishonest of me. Undermine him to fuck.

Just out of interest, is this specific genre of music something that Labs and I might take great interest in? I know it's very popular in London and Manchester!
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:35, Reply)

It's dance music, but, not knowing a great deal about that genre,
all I know is it's the much more commercial end of it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:37, Reply)

Never mind then
Probably for the best, if you worked with someone out of VNV Nation I would've gone all giddy
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 14:38, Reply)