Yesterday, a kid that I manage calls in sick. While this royally sucks, I do my best to fill his position and get the work done as best as I can. Since he is the only person who knows how to do his important job, this put the whole company in a really bad place. (Remember, I only started there less than 2 months ago, so I never had the chance to fully learn what he does, past the basics).
With age, comes the wisdom to keep your damn mouth shut. In this story, the kid is only 22 and hasn't learned that yet. So, the day before he calls in sick, he goes around telling several people that he feels like he is being 'dumped' on with work. He also said that if he didn't come in, we would find out how valuable he really is. This, of course, gets back to management. So now, my boss and I are fuming at the arogance this kid has by thinking he is indispensible, and can hold the company by the balls.
Today, I made a note to start paying a little bit more attention to how he does his job. Oh yeah, and that raise I was going to get for him because I thought he deserved it? Yeah, well, he can forget about that.
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Heh heh, I can't wait for the followups on this one. :)
That sucks complete ass, he proved himself right and then you fuck him over because of it. This is why managers are idiots, even the 'good' ones. IT is the worst industry ever, retrain while you still can!
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