Unfiltered Story #298995
There is an employee who is none of the work, all of the glory. She decided to take over my role in setting up computers and billing our third-party IT guy $150/hr to set it up for her. That way she can take all of the credit, while taking none of the effort. It is an hour out of my day so I am actually fine with it all.
One of the things she always says is we need to document things in the event one of us is hit by a bus. I am a strong believer in teaching others how to help themselves so without much prompting I did exactly that in August 2017 so that she could pass the baton on to anyone. It is easy as pie.
For about six months she consistently nags me for this document. I always give it to her without much of a fuss because again I don’t want it. Each time she acts like I am holding this document hostage and refusing to give it up. I eventually get fed up and just email it to the guy who is doing the work for her, playing dumb.
After that, she decides to berate me and tell me how it is an “incomplete” document. I repeatedly ask her what needs to be fixed, but she never does. Neither does the IT guy. This goes on for another six months. During this time, they set up maybe one computer.
All during this year-long period, she continues to gossip to any and everyone about how I set the computers up wrong last time so I shouldn’t be allowed to do it this time. How did I set it up “wrong” you may ask? Apparently it was by not installing Microsoft Office Suite because she is responsible for ordering it and hadn’t. Overall, it is a nightmare so it isn’t something I even want to pretend to fight for.
Finally, we are about to get a bunch of new hires in, which means a bunch of new computers. She spends one week heckling me for this document and another berating me on how it isn’t accurate and up-to-date. I tell her in an email with our boss cc’d to my knowledge it is, but please let me know if you have any issues setting it up. I hear nothing for a week and a half after that.
The new computers finally come and low-and-behold they are not set up correctly. There is outdated software that they could’ve only gotten from going to a now-defunct website rather than the up-to-date exe file I provided. They also did not properly set up our data base on one computer and didn’t set it up at all on a second.
The second, I admit, is a bit tricky as it needs to be set up on each individual account. I am rather gentle about this one and point out that they cannot do it from the admin account for future reference.
I spend two hours cleaning it up and I am rightfully mad after being bullied by this jerk for a whole year. I point her and the IT person to the program they need and tell them how to set up the data-base by copy-and-pasting the instructions verbatim from that document.
They then have the absolute nerve to repeat back that the database setup wasn’t their fault because they didn’t know about it -despite it being said document – and then lie to me about how they set up the software.
Using the words “as I have said” and “that is funny because I ran the software from the right location and it worked” have never been more satisfying in my life. And as an added bonus – she did not set up Microsoft Office so it was all in vein.
