need help with back stabbing co worker

[swood]

I work in small department (5 workers and a superviser)of a medium size company.
We have a guy whose wants to be the superviser. He is the bosses bitch up hiss ass and spy.
He tells the boss he's the only one who works and takes credit for other peoples work, while running down everybody else.
Help me mess this back stabber up.
What to do?

 

[5hummer]

What about your co-workers -- do they feel the same?

Let him take all the responsibility, it'll bite him in the ass eventually.
Who needs the stress and grief, right?

 

[simon482]

loosen every screw in his chair so it will fall apart with any weight put on it, if that doesn't work fuck his wife.

 

[oldjones]

If the boss believes him without doing his own evaluation, then the boss is the problem. Assuming he isn't, he likely shares your opinion and is looking for a way to dump the troublemaker. If that's nit the case, you should be looking for a new place with a new boss.

 

[james t kirk]

About 10 years ago, I worked with this asshole who was completely self absorbed and thought that he was the greatest thing ever.

If you listened to him talk, you'd think that he single handedly invented the world I remember sitting in on his interview with my then boss (the asshole was coming from the Edmonton office to work in T.O. and we badly needed people) After the interview, my boss said to me, "what do you think" and I said, "I think he's quite full of himself and that I wouldn't hire him" (At the time, my senses told me that he was going to be problematic.) Well they hired him anyway. It didn't take long before his mouth got the better of him. On top of it all - he came from a country / culture (shall we be politically correct) in which women are not held in high regard as professionals and coworkers. It didn't take long before he had insulted several women in the office. But, he had the bosses hood-winked for the longest time because he was such a smooth talker.

It's hard to go to the boss and say, "this guy is an asshole". We've been conditioned over the centuries never to rat. Usually, we just hope that the boss figures it out for himself, but sometimes it gets to be too much.

In my case, eventually, it became clear that he was just all talk. Long story short, when he left, his laptop revealed a completely bogus resume - he was taking credit as the lead on just about every project we had ever worked on as a group. (And he was not even involved in.) That's a HUGE No-No in my industry. He spent all of his days networking and emailing. The funny thing was that despite all the complaints, all the bullshit, all the run-ins he had with women, the cheeses never fired his ass. He ended up leaving on his own.

 

[Petzel]

About 10 years ago, I worked with this asshole who was completely self absorbed and thought that he was the greatest thing ever.

If you listened to him talk, you'd think that he single handedly invented the world I remember sitting in on his interview with my then boss (the asshole was coming from the Edmonton office to work in T.O. and we badly needed people) After the interview, my boss said to me, "what do you think" and I said, "I think he's quite full of himself and that I wouldn't hire him" (At the time, my senses told me that he was going to be problematic.) Well they hired him anyway. It didn't take long before his mouth got the better of him. On top of it all - he came from a country / culture (shall we be politically correct) in which women are not held in high regard as professionals and coworkers. It didn't take long before he had insulted several women in the office. But, he had the bosses hood-winked for the longest time because he was such a smooth talker.

It's hard to go to the boss and say, "this guy is an asshole". We've been conditioned over the centuries never to rat. Usually, we just hope that the boss figures it out for himself, but sometimes it gets to be too much.

In my case, eventually, it became clear that he was just all talk. Long story short, when he left, his laptop revealed a completely bogus resume - he was taking credit as the lead on just about every project we had ever worked on as a group. (And he was not even involved in.) That's a HUGE No-No in my industry. He spent all of his days networking and emailing. The funny thing was that despite all the complaints, all the bullshit, all the run-ins he had with women, the cheeses never fired his ass. He ended up leaving on his own.

Some companies are just like dysfunctional families.

 

[avxl1003]

Visit a whole bunch of Neo-Nazi sites on his computer whenever nobody is looking.. Keep this up for about a month, and then report him. Problem solved.

 

[bobistheowl]

If they have a Christmas gift exchange in your office, make sure you get his name, and give him a pair of "Happy Knees"

 

[fuji]

The dirty tricks are funny, but at the end of the day won't resolve your problem.

Here is what you actually have to do, which is actually hard work, but unless you want to quit there is no other way:

Presumably if he is a back stabbing jerk you are NOT the only one who feels this way. What you have to do is quietly build up a consensus among others that you work with about his behavior. Approach other co-workers and discuss his behavior. Ask if he's ever done anything like that to them. Try and mostly talk about things you have seen him to do OTHER people, rather than only to yourself. Gradually create the perception/realization among your co-workers that this is the sort of person he is.

If he is really a back-stabbing jerk and everyone can see it you will eventually be able to isolate him from everybody else in the workplace by creating a consensus on what sort of person he is.

Once you have considerable support for this view among the employees at your company, start a campaign to get him fired. Have more and more people approach your boss to discuss problems with his behavior. Your boss can discount an isolated complaint here and there but when it becomes obvious that practically everybody in the office dislikes this guy, and that he's creating disunity, and problems in the work place, unless he is actually giving your boss real blowjobs the guy is cooked.

This whole plan obviously assumes that what you say is correct: That he is a backstabbing asshole. It's important for YOU to assess whether that is really true. Is he really going around backstabbing everyone? Or is that just YOUR perception? Take some time to asses whether YOU have the problem here and be SURE that it is him before you set out on this. Because if he is actually a great guy, who has caught you out slacking, and hasn't done anything wrong, this will backfire.

But if he's an honest to god jerk then this is how to get rid of him.

 

[harryass]

ditto on what fugi said. But do the dirty tricks on the jerk anyhow, he deservse it

 

[GPIDEAL]

Ditto livluflaf, 5hummer and Fugi.

Plus, anytime he says bullshit, CALL HIM ON IT! Don't be passive. Let him know you're not a pushover. It may spread around the office too.

 

[ezeddie123]

you miss the point. just get rid of him, put up a sign on the elevator, out of order, then wait by the stairs, once push, and problem solved.

 

[sleazure]

Gotta be careful, if you start going around saying bad things about the guy behind his back, trying to undermine him and turn all the others against him, most shops would call that harassment.

What you gotta do is outperform him on every level. Polish the boss's apples. Come to work before Asshole does, and stay longer, work your ass off, do more work than Asshole, and do it better. In your spare time, you help everyone else do the same thing. You all watch each other's backs and stand up for each other, but don't try to fuck him. Eventually, he'll fuck himself.

 

[desert monk]

I work in small department (5 workers and a superviser)of a medium size company.
We have a guy whose wants to be the superviser. He is the bosses bitch up hiss ass and spy.
He tells the boss he's the only one who works and takes credit for other peoples work, while running down everybody else.
Help me mess this back stabber up.
What to do?

these guys are in every workplace. Just start writing things in the bathroom wall in sharpie, use your alternate hand so they can't match the handwriting. His credibility will take a huge hit.

If this doesn't work, go buy like 20 hits of LSD, and put the blotter paper in his morning coffee. Then sit back and enjoy the show!

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I work for myself and on contract, so I do not have office politics to deal with. I ran into a school buddy of mine that went into the corporate world, he had the same problem. He worked for a department that had 70+ people in it. He sent an annonymous letter to his supervisor that he had a problem with to put him on notice that he would be exposed for all the favoritism and activities that was counter productive to the company. He included a tampon and put some juices from a defrosting pot roast on it to make it look like it was a woman that was gunning for him. His plan went so well that his supervisor called him in to his office and told him about the letter (but little gift). He wanted my buddy to be on the look out for some bitch that was out to fuck up his career. After that meeting my buddy got better projects and more responsibilities. It worked out well for him.