This guy at work is trying to steal my project [View All]

[billyskank]

For the past few days he's been bugging me, and my project manager, and anyone else who will listen to him, that my project should be hosted on one particular server software instead of the software they have actually chosen to host it on.

I didn't even choose the software we're using; the managers and networks people (who have to maintain it) all got together in a meeting and decided what we are going to use, and I simply do what I am asked to do. But this guy, who has nothing to do with this project, thinks he should steer the direction of EVERYTHING.

His nose was put out of joint when I was given this project, because it's different to anything we've done before, and he wanted to do it. But he has lots of stuff to do already so they gave it to me instead. I think he's trying to wrest control of it.

I wouldn't even mind, if this guy was really good - but he isn't. I've had to work with some of his code, and it's poor quality. Very poor. Most other places I've worked his behaviour wouldn't be tolerated - he'd be given junior programming tasks and his work would be closely monitored at best, but here they give him far more latitude than he deserves. He's a good self-promoter and my boss doesn't realise that he talks a much better game than he plays.

That is this week's rant. Thank you for listening.

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