long boring work post on CT:
today is my 86th day at this job. It's the best gig I've ever had and I love the company culture, the people I work with, the projects are big and interesting, etc. My boss is laid back and has a great vision for the future and excellent grasp on reality and expectations. Killer job. But I have this one employee who is a fucking cancer. Dead weight. total drag on everything, but he's been here like 8 years and he's somewhat entrenched and we have butted heads to the point of heightened emotions and (my) raised voice on three occasions now. Basically, this lump of shit doesn't want to do certain duties and, I think, saw an opening when a new manager (me) was hired to assert this kind of pussy-ass-ill-talk-his-head-off-to-get-out-of-work-I-don't-like strategy or some shit. So as I delegate the work and assign specific tasks to the engineers/techs (this is IT work), he goes on long winding circular logic screeds about how when the previous manager was here all this fell on him and he doesn't think we should be doing it or that the users should blah blah and tries to obfuscate the point to where you just give up and don't assign it to him. I guess that is his strategy. It doesn't work and he ends up doing it begrudgingly, but I don't have the time and mental energy to hold this bitch's hand. I have offloaded some of his work to others and to outside services. I hired an engineer recently who's skill set wasn't 100% of what I wanted, but he was a good fit. The guy seeks out work. He loves challenges and he is blasting past the fuckwit guy, and it is as if the fuckwit isn't even aware. My other engineer is on point, working through projects, etc. This dude shows no human emotion, nothing. Like a robot. I think he's on some serious meds.
So I sat him down and asked him to write up for me his job description. To empower him to give it back to me, like im some kind of a kindergarden teacher. So he sends basically a list of all the shit he wants to do. I went down to HR and got the real job description that was updated in 2014, and of course it encompasses all the shit I had been assigning him. So we are having a meeting on Wed to compare the two and for me to outline for him that this is the deal, and if he can't handle it he's outy. It's gonna be a shitshow, man.
Anyone had anyone like this?