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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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PerfectlyPosed · 13/08/2018 10:04

Oh my god!

BringOnTheScience · 13/08/2018 10:02

Holy crap!! This is way beyond being a mansplaining arsehole! Hope that management have called the police - and given IT a bollocking too.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 13/08/2018 10:00

Shock What does your manager say? (She sounds ace and effective. Is she available to give advice to random people on their life choices? Wink )

IncrediblySturdyPyjamas · 13/08/2018 09:58

You definitely need to call the police now.

Karigan198 · 13/08/2018 09:56

It is illegal. It comes under the computer misuse offences. You should report him.

SilverHairedCat · 13/08/2018 09:52

@Mansplanation that sounds illegal, and like it's time for the company to be calling in the police to investigate for fraud, and some lawyers to sue him for his actions after he'd been summarily dismissed.

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Mansplanation · 13/08/2018 09:31

He’s not autistic, he’s a knob.

A knob who thinks it’s acceptable to log in to the accounts on Friday night at 11pm and add a shit ton of budget, so everything has over spent over the weekend Angry

Luckily the system records which login was used etc. I asked IT to revoke his accesses when he left last week but apparently that’s too much to bloody ask Angry

Now I have to explain to clients why they’re 60% overspent on target and in one case, nearly £70k out of pocket Angry

At least if I get sacked I can start my new job. Silver linings and all that.

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SlowDown76mph · 13/08/2018 08:56

Why all the eagerness for 'explanatory' excuses for his behaviour? It walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck.

I'm autistic too and get fed-up with this default 'explanation', whether used as a sarcastic riposte or not (excusing the excuser?!)

Sometimes an arse is exactly what someone is, no more, no less!

whyamievenamazeddotcom · 13/08/2018 08:14

Was literally thinking the same thing perhaps he is feeling uncertain and needs validating....even so sounds v patronising

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 13/08/2018 06:14

He could be autistic. He could just be an arsehole. 😂

ICantBelieveIDidThis · 13/08/2018 02:42

I was hired for a technical role shortly after a guy.

He could memorise the SOPs chapter and verse, but failed miserably at putting it all into practice.

If instructions said 30ml, he poured in a random amount using a cylinder far too large to be accurate.

And then ask if that would do. 🤔

Tell him the canteen closed at 1.30pm and he was there at 1.40pm shouting abuse at the staff as the last shutter rolled down on the serving hatch.

We two were rotating round all the processes within our department, so that as he learned a process and got signed off, he would be moved and I would follow.

He didn't get past the first processes.

I was trained in some of the processes, but he held me up.

He was fired for incompetence after long and intensive sessions with a woman who had stayed long after her hours to help him sort out mess after mess.

He mansplained to her over and over again, before bollocksing it all up over and over again.

After being warned of his impending dismissal, things got really awkward after he claimed racial discrimination.

By the organisation and by the woman who went out of her way to help.

He left eventually, but I was only half trained after a year and was made redundant partly because I didn't have all the processes under my belt.

Mansplainer did appear to have major social issues, lacked any commonsense and his behaviour did fit with an autism or asd description.

My guy sounds almost exactly like your guy OP.

Good luck. You and your employer dodged a very big bullet there.

BoomBoomsCousin · 13/08/2018 02:12

That’s how sarcasm often works Vfor. Which isn’t to say I know what the poster was thinking, or that it was a good comment. I’m just pointing out there are other interpretations.

VforVienetta · 12/08/2018 23:29

PSB i was, but am admittedly a bit short-fused as this stage of the summer holidays...

VforVienetta · 12/08/2018 23:27

Nope, they simply stated that he was autistic. Baffled as to why!

BoomBoomsCousin · 12/08/2018 22:18

Was Winnie trying to be caustic about the way MN is known for finding excuses for people's behavior and suggesting the OP should be more accommodating because the offending behaviour is probably due to autism, depression, anxiety, etc.?

It's all I can think of.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 12/08/2018 19:34

I missed winnie's comment, I'm autistic, should I be offended?

SalemBlackCat · 12/08/2018 09:30

I don't think he's autistic, but I think he knew he was way out of his depth, so in order to fish for information on how to do his job, he used a form of bragging and patronising in order to form knowledge of how the job is done. The bragging, patronising and misogynistic behaviour was to cover his lack of knowledge and allowed him to save face while he got 'trained' in how to do the job.

Lorddenning1 · 11/08/2018 23:55

I agree @VforVienetta

VforVienetta · 11/08/2018 23:13

winnie why on earth would you say that? Confused
Unless you know something the rest of us don't, the OP hasn't written anything to suggest that SG might be on the spectrum, and no you can't state it as fact from a few posts on the internet.

Fucking offensive to actual autistic people by the way, to automatically ascribe atrocious behaviour to ASD.

If anything, I wondered if SG could possibly by a narcissist, he seemed to have such belief in himself and look down on others.

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Muddlingalongalone · 11/08/2018 08:40

Great update OP - having a good manager makes such a difference. I am about to potentially move roles internally and hoping my manager will mentor me and then rehire me at a more senior level in 3 years.
Wonder if mansplaining shart goblin updated LinkedIn???? Surely if it is bankruptcy/criminal record any employer will find that out???
Enjoy your last few weeks and Good luck in the new job.

justilou1 · 11/08/2018 08:14

Oh to be a fly on his mansplaining wall when he has that conversation and the truth comes out....

Takemetovegas · 11/08/2018 06:41

Bet he can't wait to manslain hi way through the meeting with the solicitor. Wink

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Mansplanation · 11/08/2018 00:55

My manager lives in the same town as me so I met up with her for a dog walk and a chat this afternoon. It was lovely. We’ve got to go through the hiring process again (through an agent this time!) but we’ve talked about the need for a good fit for the office as well as someone with technical knowledge.

Looking back on SG’s interview, we haven’t been able to pick out any moments that would have indicated any of this stuff would happen which is alarming. He was able to start immediately and we needed a long handover so manager and HR decided they’d check references etc in his first week. HR guy started doing that on Monday and found some things apparently that made his contract null and void anyway. Obviously my manager can’t tell me what they found and I didn’t ask, but knowing my industry, the only 2 things that would cause that are a bankruptcy or a criminal record.

Disappointing that his mansplaining dick swinging wasn’t what got him sacked, but I guess the outcome is the same either way.

I agree with those saying my manager is awesome, she is. She’s been a joy to work with for 5 years and posesses a vast, seemingly bottomless supply of integrity. I should have left my job 2 years ago really but didn’t because I wanted to work with her longer.

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MrsMozart · 11/08/2018 00:20

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