To Have Murderous Thoughts About Colleague?

Hang in there, OP. This idiot is not worth you extending your time at the job when you have a shining future in front of you!

Oh Shart!! You could die in there and nobody would know?

Can you explain to me how to unlock the door?

Help! Someone's locked me in the store cupboard

"SG just told one of my colleagues ‘yeah I’m here as a consultant to help Mansp out for a while"

@PositivelyPERF is right - ShartGoblin must die. And, entirely coincidentally, @mansplanation was here, with me, having coffee and cake when the dread deed occurred. Honest Guv.

Just checking if he's dead yet

We'll all cover for you.
To police detective: "Oh yes, Mansplanation was with us having a cup of coffee for most of this morning."
three hundred women can't be wrong ...

Just checking if he's dead yet.

Did your colleague challenge him when he claimed to be a consultant? I'd be tempted to say something like "Oh, I thought you were the long term replacement since Mansp is going on to bigger and better things, when are you leaving?"

SG just told one of my colleagues ‘yeah I’m here as a consultant to help Mansp out for a while

Cross post! 😲 I’ve changed my mind. Just kill the prick! 😠

I read those ones, what did the two subsequent ones say?

And that she should move on and not come on mumsnet getting all upset over someone who is better qualified and paid.

Dave just suggested that OP was a silly woman who was only upset because Shart Goblin was on more money than her.

I also need to know!

SG just told one of my colleagues ‘yeah I’m here as a consultant to help Mansp out for a while’

Tinkly laugh. Treat him as a sweet stupid little boy. Which he is.

Do not show he has got under your skin

Priority one is not to piss him off so he leaves because otherwise you’ll be there till December. I’d just keep that in mind.

I need to know what Dave's posts said?! 😂

He sounds like a twit who is in over his head, but thinks he can bluff his way into keeping the job. He’s one of those men who thinks they can manipulate a woman into teaching him something while at the same time he can pretend he knows what he’s doing.

The ‘conditioned to be nice woman’ in me, actually feels a little sorry for him. Sorry 😳 He’s already thought he was more capable than he is, trying to run his own business, that’s went under and now he’s talked his way into a job he might not be capable of keeping. Can you imagine what’s going on in the silly man’s head? He’s probably realised his predicament but is desperately trying to learn, but the mansplaining is so deep, it’s now part of his DNA. 😁

You could call him out on that comment feigning concern: I heard you saying to X that you’re here as a consultant helping me out for a while. I’m worried you might be confused - you know this job is permanent? I am training you to do my job when I leave, don’t you?

Feeling your pain, OP. He sounds utterly knobbish.

But don't get drawn into a pissing competition. You won't win against a sexist stupid man. Be the bigger person.

I would do something more passive-agressive & TOTALLY high status - talk to him in a caring, very sincere way (use the head tilt again) along these lines

Look, I"m going to give you some advice before I leave, because I recruited you and you seemed to be performing well at interview. I'm going to be straight with you, in your own best interests, because not everyone here will be as tolerant of you as I am being. I'm bearing with your lack of experience because I recruited you & I think you have potential to be quite good in this role. But you need to be careful of trying to tell other people what they already know. I understand that you're doing this because you're nervous and you want to impress me. But not everyone here will understand this & once I'm gone,, you won't be cut so much slack.. If there's anything you're unsure about, please feel free to ask me, but in the next week you should also observe how we do things here, and start to learn our procedures. I won't be here to protect you after the end of August.

Patronise him under the guise of helping lay absolutely high status - but don't ever stoop to listing your experience or the post you're going to, or the doubled salary. If that comes up, play faux modest and use the tilted head & tinkly laugh. Act as though you assume that he recognises your expertise as a given, and that you have lots of experience to mentor him. Treat him as a subservient.

We've got a newly installed share goblin in our office. Thank goodness management see it as well. He's doing maternity cover and was beyond stunned by that he's been unsuccessful in his applications for permanent posts. Maybe because he knew so much he didn't need to prepare for the interview or accompanying presentation

Oh, and they can be litigious too - claims of bullying, etc.

If he’s ‘helping you out’ then I suggest you ask him to explain everything to do.

And state that;

‘As you’re hear to help me out I was hoping you’d explain this process to me? Not that I need it in my new job but you never know when I might have to hire and train someone in this role’

I’d make sure you have back ups of your work on a secure drive that he can’t access. I expect he would take a lot of joy in deleting it all and then suggesting you had done it. Or arsing it up and overwriting things by accident.