New Boss Tries To Play Alpha, IT Consultant Reports Them

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mattstaff
Apr 25, 2020 9:00 AM EDT

This boss came in hot on the scene, and thought they'd try to go full bully alpha mode. Well, that didn't shape up too well for them. Nope, not at all. The independent IT consultant who was around at the time, and a witness to their toxic antics, decided to report them. Shortly thereafter, it sounds like bully boss was swiftly escorted out of his position. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge JOIN u/dwasifar • 2y Try to bully me, new boss? This will be your shortest job ever. Back in the day, I worked as an independent IT consultant, and was hired on along with another independent to subcontract on a team for a major consulting house, we'll call it CH. Everyone else on the team was a CH employee. The two of us were not supposed to tell the client that we weren't part of CH, but the client figured it out pretty fast, because we independents were doing most of the w
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    Text - The project ran past its initial deadline, and my contract expired. I stayed on a week-to-week basis, as a professional courtesy to get the project finished, because I liked the client if not the team. Unfortunately the CH project manager was booked somewhere else for his next gig, and they brought in a new guy to replace him. Let's call him David Stress. David flew in on a Monday morning to get the project handed off to him, and immediately started pissing on everything to mark his terri
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  • 03
    Text - belittling to the team, and liked to raise his voice. I was working in my office (well, actually a closet with folding tables that I shared with three other team members) and didn't hear what he was saying out in the main room, but I could sure hear his tone. Then he burst in to the "office" and demanded, "How are we doing [specific payroll-related conversion task]?" I said, "We're using [program X]." He waved his hand dismissively and scoffed. "That's stupid. [Program X] won't work for t
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    Text - she thought I was going to deck him. I knew he was full of shit because I WROTE PROGRAM X. It was custom code for this project, and he had no way of knowing what it would or wouldn't do. He was just trying to bully me and be the alpha dog. I did not deck him. Instead, I went to the client's payroll manager, with whom l'd been working closely for months, and who was driving the client side of the project. I laid it on the line. I said, "Look, I know you know I don't work for CH. I'm here o
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  • 05
    Text - work with him. T have no contract at this point, and with him running the project I won't be back next week. I'm not asking you to do anything specific about it; I'm just letting you know as a courtesy so you can plan to transition my work to someone else." She sat back in her chair, thought a moment, and said, "Okay. Thanks for letting me know." Two hours later, David Stress was removed from his new position. The payroll manager, faced with losing the one technical guy on the team who ac
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    Text - The funniest part of the whole thing was that CH had scheduled a "welcome" dinner for David at a posh steakhouse that evening. Rather than create the further embarrassment of cancelling the dinner, they actually went ahead with it, as a "farewell" dinner for David, who had been on the project for less than one day. It was fun to watch him try to put on a brave face for that. (Yes, I did stay with the project to the end after that, and yes, they went live successfully.)
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