ULPT: How to fight against peer at work?
Posted by Soft_Detective5107@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 5 comments
I am a woman in engineering, I work for the company for 3 months. I am responsible for technical side of very advanced project and recently we've got a new project manager. We literally are on the same level and he is normally responsible for handling the client side, PMP etc. The thing is , he thought that his job comes with power but in this company he wants to be responsible for everything.
It started with small cuts. But like yesterday he sat in the office, asked my engineer for 2 mins talk and proceeded to talk for an hour about technical side of the project, completely ignoring the fact I was in the room.
We sit next to each other and he often moves his chair a little to the back, in a way he is sideways behind me and takes out his phone and starts to talk loudly. After a month, I am at my wits end.
I want to destroy him.
He is not delivering anything, just recycling my work.
SkillbroSwaggins@reddit
If he is recycling your work, how is he doing that? Either be the first to present, make a obvious mistake he would catch if he was technical or wait for him to mess up enough that you can go "You are wrong. This is how it works".
Soft_Detective5107@reddit (OP)
Main issue is my management is reading emails with delays.
Sometimes I send this email to everyone and then he goes to a meeting and repeats what I wrote in the email, that no e has read yet and in everyone's heads - I actually recycled his idea.
He interjects during meetings and sometimes I can't finish my sentence. I work in very male dominated field.
SkillbroSwaggins@reddit
After he finishes saying what you wrote, you can always chime in with "I'm happy you read my email before this meeting, however i'd prefer if you let me explain my own work".
Alternatively, just send the email with a delay. Set the deliverytime to be 5 minutes into your meeting, if you know the management doesn't read it before the meeting regardless. That removes the opportunity for OD (Overstepping Dumbass) to poach your stuff from the email :)
tilldeathdoiparty@reddit
Find a way to expose him through recycling your work, if you know he is going to claim it, do something wrong, not huge, but enough to make him distrust your work to be presented as his own.
Then if called out, ‘oh I sent that to so and so to review, here is the final copy’ done correctly.
Lay some traps and let them fall into them, but in reality these bozos end up being exposed, just a matter of time, which could be soon, or years
Skeggy-@reddit
Ejecto seato his chair.