A$$hat manager

[Anonymous]

This post is 90% vent, but if someone has an idea, I’d like to hear it.

One of the managers at my organization insisted on taking a function away from my group. This function was a long-standing part of our area of expertise. I think he did it to pad his résumé and make him more likely to be promoted, which didn’t work.

I told leadership at the time that neither he nor his group had the infrastructure or the expertise to handle this function, but I was ultimately overruled.

Now a year later, he constantly tries to outsource his work back to my group because we have the infrastructure and the expertise to handle these issues.

So instead of taking over our function, he’s essentially become one more bureaucratic hurdle between us and the work.

my team and I have explained the situation to leadership, formally and informally. Leadership acknowledges the problem, but feels it’s working well enough. End rant.

[Anonymous]

How much of your time is it taking?

But yes, I get it. Did he try to make you, or your group, look incompetent while executing his "pivot"? I had a co-worker do that to me. It worked to get her a promotion, but everything fell apart after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much of your time is it taking?

But yes, I get it. Did he try to make you, or your group, look incompetent while executing his "pivot"? I had a co-worker do that to me. It worked to get her a promotion, but everything fell apart after that.

It’s a minor issue for us since it’s a small subset of our overall work - but it’s impossible for them because they don’t really have that function. In terms of work flow it’s not that big of a deal since he is getting it out of his inbox as quickly as he can.

Mostly, it just annoys the crap out of me. He’s friends with one of the executives who is trying to position him for promotion. Im confident that the plan was that he would get promoted quickly and then return the function to us. But now that he wasn’t promoted, they don’t feel that they can just reverse course so we’re going on with this charade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much of your time is it taking?

But yes, I get it. Did he try to make you, or your group, look incompetent while executing his "pivot"? I had a co-worker do that to me. It worked to get her a promotion, but everything fell apart after that.

It’s a minor issue for us since it’s a small subset of our overall work - but it’s impossible for them because they don’t really have that function. In terms of work flow it’s not that big of a deal since he is getting it out of his inbox as quickly as he can.

Mostly, it just annoys the crap out of me. He’s friends with one of the executives who is trying to position him for promotion. Im confident that the plan was that he would get promoted quickly and then return the function to us. But now that he wasn’t promoted, they don’t feel that they can just reverse course so we’re going on with this charade.

That's all any of this is: a charade.

[Anonymous]

I would decline to do his work. The function has been officially moved, so it is inappropriate for him to do it. It must be officially moved back if work is to happen.