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[quote=Anonymous]I was hired by a large big name defense contractor to work on a large delivery and was put on a team with a near retirement aged man who refused to share any info with coworkers. It was miserable.

My first week there the old guy pointedly told me they hired me to take over his job because he was too highly paid and that he would not allow that. They hired me because he complained he had too much work but he was a 9 to 5 worker in a company where many worked overtime trying to get a large delivery done on time.

Our manager was a nice guy but a terrible manager. They knew this guy was secretive and only cared about protecting his job but did nothing to help me when he wouldn't share anything with me or give me work. For over a year another employee and I had less than an hours work each day.

It was very demoralizing. To add to the misery my coworkers saw I had little work and treated me poorly. Everyone knew the old guy was the issue but the misogyny at this place was horrible. I hated not being useful when there was a ton of work to do and I learned absolutely nothing. I would hunt for technical manuals to read to learn something.

I found another job in the organization and was excited and the old guy complained way up the chain and blocked my move. This jerk refused to involve me in any of the work and then threw a hissy fit that I was leaving his team. Management was so afraid of him that they gave him whatever he wanted. I left the company. My lousy manager asked to meet me several times after I put in my resignation and I refused. He knew what was going on and did nothing. The company allowed our customer to be charged salaries for two employees who did little work. To this day I despise my manager more than the old guy. [/quote]

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