You're not the a**hole. Sounds like he thinks he's God's gift to the world. If he's not willing to learn a better way to do something, he's not an asset to the company.
Especially if someone shows you a better way of doing something, and you ignore it and make excuses why it won't work. On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 5:51 PM Brian Webster <i...@wirelessmapping.com> wrote: > If you have to tell people about your exceptionalism, rather than have it > be noticed, well that speaks volumes. Sounds like a legend in his own mind. > > > > Thank you, > > Brian Webster > > > > *From:* AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown > via AF > *Sent:* Saturday, April 8, 2023 3:48 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Cc:* ch...@go-mtc.com > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Short Term Employee > > > > I hired a guy to be a production manager over our grout mixing machine > product. > > He came with a pedigree of doing this at other places. I didn’t check him > out, just trusted the resume. > > > > He did have interesting ideas but soon it became evident: > > He liked to sit and talk –alot. > > He did not want to start helping cleaning up the bill of materials > (primary job responsibility). (did absolutely nothing along those lines) > > > > He wanted us to farm things out to his buddies (like have fastenal kit the > nuts and bolts, have this other company make your sheet metal for you). > > > > OK, was trying to absorb ideas and suggestions. After all he was over > building all the production equipment at the local Purple Mattress factory > (or so he said). > > > > I expected him to help task employees in his department, but soon when > asked where they were and what were they doing, he had no idea. > > I gave them a task to modify a mounting fixture by cutting it and > inserting 10” of steel tubing. Rather than have them do what I asked, he > took new steel and made one from scratch. > > So he wasted the steel, his time and he used too thin of material. Took > two hours. > > > > I told him you could make the modification in 10 minutes, he argued that > point. > > So I took a stand, cut it, extended it, using a stopwatch. 3 minutes 43 > seconds.... > > > > When I complained about it, he said that my fixtures were too weak and > they were going to kill someone. I demoed one with about 10X load not > failing. > > Then he started complaining about other things, deflecting that he did not > do what I asked and did something else wasteful and substandard. > > Interspersed with my request was not clear and he didn’t understand what I > wanted... > > > > He said my repair to a air compressor was unsafe. > > He said he got arc flash in his eye from a distance of about 60 feet, etc > etc. Had to buy stuff to build safe welding stalls, etc etc. > > > > So I made a casual comment to my son (who is taking over) yesterday: “you > know, when a guy like this leaves a company whether fired or not, they > sometimes call OSHA just to cause problems” > > Then I actually listened to my own words and agreed with myself. > > > > Late in the day this problem employee said to me: “I guess I am going to > have to ignore my own exceptionalism to be able work here”. > > > > That bugged me the longer I thought about it. I fired him via email about > an hour after he left... Made it one full week and a couple days the prior > week. > > He can bless someone else with his exceptionalism. > > > > AITA? > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi www.mnwifi.com 507-634-WiFi Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi>
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