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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

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IHeartMarmiteToast · 09/08/2018 10:44

Shartnet!!! OMG I'm dying

IHeartMarmiteToast · 09/08/2018 10:43

Shart Goblin - I NEED to use this. You totally need to do Shart Goblin Bingo. Phrases can include "So I was thinking" "not going into too much detail’ "bluesky thinking" "reaching out" "lets run this one up the flagpole"

More suggestions needed obvs

Cauliflowersqueeze · 09/08/2018 10:43

Marvellous updates.

Do you think these arses have some kind of Shartnet.com website where they share their crappy ways of trying to boost their own confidence. It’s so pathetic.

ApolloandDaphne · 09/08/2018 10:18

This thread is hilarious. Not for you obviously OP but it is funny.

mistlethrush · 09/08/2018 10:12

"I'd do it properly! Perfect! Grin

sexnotgender · 09/08/2018 10:10

To check I’m not going in to too much detail- what an absolute dick.
Do not help him! Let him fall flat on his smug, irritating face.

QueenieMum · 09/08/2018 10:08

Just think @Mansplanation, once SG has 'grown into his role' he might consider spreading his wings. You might be interviewing him again in a year or so, assuming he hasn't been lynched before then ... Grin

eddielizzard · 09/08/2018 10:08

to check I’m not going into too much detail

what an utter twerp. He's way out of his depth even I'm cringing for him.

FrancisCrawford · 09/08/2018 10:07

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C4T5 · 09/08/2018 10:03

Wish I was I fly on the wall of your office today OP Grin

He is probably shitting himself right now. Serves him right though. He’s clearly out of his depth and instead of using this handover period to learn the ropes from you, he’s busy being a crowing cockerel 🐓 Grin

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Mansplanation · 09/08/2018 09:55

*hiding

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Mansplanation · 09/08/2018 09:54

Round 2:
‘Have you used this platform before?’

‘Yeah if course I have, I run a lot of stuff through it’

....

5 minutes of farting about clearly with no idea how to use the platform..

Him: ‘Would you do it this way? I just want to make sure I’m doing it the way you would to check I’m not going into too much detail’

Me: ‘Actually no I wouldn’t do it that way, I’d do it properly’. I stood up and went to get a cup of tea before I got the stapler out and now I’m hidthere my in the kitchen Blush

Blush my resolve is clearly slipping. HELP.

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HolyMountain · 09/08/2018 09:47

I love this thread Grin.

ethelfleda · 09/08/2018 09:45

You have my sympathies, OP

but mostly am place marking as this thread is pure gold

sexnotgender · 09/08/2018 09:41

Or tell him you think he needs to pay more attention at meetings as clearly he wasn’t listening properly.
This would wind me up no end.

sexnotgender · 09/08/2018 09:31

Perhaps feign concern for his memory? Surely you remember me saying that exact same thing to the client yesterday?

I had a manager that used to try and pull that shit with me, I’d say something in a meeting that he’d totally ignore and then shortly afterwards pitch it as his own idea. He was an incompetent buffoon who was totally in the wrong job.

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Mansplanation · 09/08/2018 09:16

This morning so far he’s explained back to me something he heard me say in a client meeting yesterday with the preface:

‘I was thinking last night, and I’ve come to the conclusion that this client thinks XX but I think they should be doing YY’

I replied: ‘absolutely, that’s just what I said to the yesterday on the call do you remember? They liked that idea, I think they’ll go with it’.

He’s been in the office for 14 minutes. Angry

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Waffles80 · 09/08/2018 09:03

Him!

Waffles80 · 09/08/2018 09:03

He sounds utterly vile.

I really think you need to let someone more senior know that you plan to, politely and professionally, ask him to stop explaining basic processes to you because it’s not productive use of your handover time. And then tell himz

PinkSquash · 09/08/2018 09:02

Aargh, I have a couple of agency staff like this. I've been in the company for 4 years and set this team up, also I do ad hoc management in a different sector of the company and the mansplaining I get is unreal. I did bite yesterday because it just got too much for me and my colleague (both women). Shart goblin will be used here with alarming frequency I feel.

NynaeveSedai · 09/08/2018 08:46

People please stop saying that this guy fancies her! The 'man is mean to woman because he fancies her' trope has to die.

MadamBatty · 09/08/2018 08:35

Mans, I would have guessed that. I’ve worked with people like him.

As already says it’s becuase you’re younger and female he thinks he can patronize you.

I often sit on interview panels for mid/senior finance roles. It’s always the men who try to give the impression that they were running the organization in their previous role. When I drill down I get the truth.

Feck him, you’re doing your job by training him. Just grit your teeth for the next couple of weeks. After this time to dump & run.

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Mansplanation · 09/08/2018 08:23

I can be very creative, you won't hear about it today, but in about 3 months time there will be a short news clipping about a bloke in his mid 30's vanishing from work and not being seen since..

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fluffygreenmonsterhoody · 09/08/2018 08:19

Good luck today OP. I’ll know what’s happened if I hear of an accountancy-based industrialist accident on the news today...

Cauliflowersqueeze · 09/08/2018 08:14

Looking forward to the next update on him!

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