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To Have Murderous Thoughts About Colleague?

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Mansplanation · 08/08/2018 20:34

I’m leaving my job and my replacement was hired, so I’m handing over.

Today he’s been reviewing my work over the last few months to get familiar with the accounts and when I asked how he was getting on, his reply was ‘it’s all quite good actually! I’m really surprised!’ Hmm

Later in the day, he commented that ‘you’re actually quite good at your job aren’t you?’

Then ‘well done, this looks like you planned it this way’

He also proceeded to explain my job to me in great detail. Over. And over. And over again. All the while, asking very very basic questions and eventually I said ‘yep, that’s very standard, have you not seen that before?’ To call him out on it and he replied ‘yeah I have, I just wanted to see if you knew why it’s done that way’

I DID FUCKING PLAN IT THAT WAY, IM VERY GOOD AT MY JOB AND YOU ARE REPLACING ME BECAUSE IM MOVING TO A MUCH, MUCH MORE SENIOR ROLE YOU INTOLLERABLE, MANSPLAINING SHART GOBLIN Angry

Somebody PLEASE lend me their willpower because I’m one ‘well done’ away from stapling a gold star to his fucking forehead.

I need to bite my tongue so I can leave and get to my new job but I’m really bloody struggling Sad

OP posts:
NotMyCircusMonkeys · 09/08/2018 18:40

Come back OP!!! We need to know what happened to the shart goblin Shock

TrippingTheVelvet · 09/08/2018 18:38

I autocorrected to snort goblin I think Lemony so I wouldn't worry Grin

Galvantula · 09/08/2018 18:38

See when you're reading a good thread. Then the next day you realise that the last post was 3 minutes ago and you've caught up with it.

Refresh!

Lemonyknickers · 09/08/2018 18:36

Yeah, couldn't even spell goblin BlushBlushBlush

Thesuzle · 09/08/2018 18:32

Interpretative dance I’m crying with laughter,
Can you take some small but vital info with you, or hide it in such a way
He’s totally F***
Good luck you deserve the new and better job

PandaPieForTea · 09/08/2018 18:29

He can’t have found the thread, as to find the thread would imply that he recognises all of this as his behaviour and therefore acknowledges that he’s a shart goblin.

WobbleTime · 09/08/2018 18:27

God, he sounds awful. Hope you are OK OP?

Anniegetyourgun · 09/08/2018 18:26

Never recruit a man with no eyebrows.

Theweasleytwins · 09/08/2018 18:25

In my head he looks like wormtounge from Lord of the rings

QueenieMum · 09/08/2018 18:24

I will add to the chorus and say I LOVE this thread, goblins, gibbons, tits and all!! GrinI'm also banking correctile dysfunction for future use!

HemanOrSheRa · 09/08/2018 18:24

Lemonyknickers GrinGrinGrin.

twattymctwatterson · 09/08/2018 18:24

On tenderhooks here...

SilverHairedCat · 09/08/2018 18:14

Ooh, I hope he's gone!! I have really enjoyed this thread. And it's given me inspiration on how to deal with the sodding mansplainer that's just arrived in my team.

He is a bullish idiot to cover it up.

All ok OP?

Sidge · 09/08/2018 18:13

Shart goblin.

Shaft gibbon.

Pig tit fingers.

This is the thread that just keeps giving. It's like manna from Heaven.

BrightYellowDaffodil · 09/08/2018 18:12

OP, you can’t leave us hanging like this! What happened after Shart Goblin’s reappearance?

:refresh refresh refresh:

CoolGirlsNeverGetAngry · 09/08/2018 18:08

Lost it at “pig tit fingers”

AynRandTheObjectivist · 09/08/2018 18:07

Oooooh, what if SG's found this thread?

Don't be so silly, there would never be any condescending, bullshitting mansplainers on Mums....oh. Oh. Oh.

ShinyMe · 09/08/2018 18:02

Oooooh, what if SG's found this thread?

OneInAMillionYou · 09/08/2018 18:01

Hello OP
Great thread, reminds me of oh so many mansplaining examples in my field!

One thought. He sounds SO far out of his depth, has your HR team done a qualification check to see he has the quals he claimed on his Application?

I've had this happen to a team member, relatively junior so was only claiming AAT. Within a week of starting it became obvious to me that he didn't know his purchase ledger from his sales ledger! Yup, turned out he hadn't achieved the claimed qualification. (Nor his A level grades but that's another story! )

YouTheCat · 09/08/2018 18:00

It wasn't really OP who blew the whistle though. I'm pretty sure management were quizzing him because they had doubts in the first place.

KeepServingTheDrinks · 09/08/2018 17:59

Shart goblin's killed the OP?????

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 09/08/2018 17:58

This is what happens when you lie your way to a job. You get found out.

Timeforabiscuit · 09/08/2018 17:58

Eeek, hope everyone is ok - having his ego pricked doesnt look like it wears well on him.

kw1091 · 09/08/2018 17:56

So invested! What happened with the cock womble?!

Cauliflowersqueeze · 09/08/2018 17:56

I don’t think this is good news. He’s obviously not going quietly

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