there is always one

i think one of the reasons i like contracting and moving around every few months is not only do you get experience and see how other companies organise and run their infrstructures, but also you don't get involved in politics and people playing silly games....at least that is the case for a while, but invariably you sometimes get sucked into shit and it reminds you that while the vast majority of people you work with are really nice, there are a few assholes everywhere.

take this example. one of the guys that has been here 7 years sent an email bitching about me not looking at a server to install software on it that had been requested by the app team. he cc'd about 6 people and was a prick about it, saying i already told you to look at this and how important it was to get it right and how it makes us look bad to the business....blah blah blah.

what he failed to mention was that these were servers he built which he said were complete and ready to go, when in fact they weren't.
he also failed to mention that i don't even have permission to log into those servers, so there is no point assigning me that shit.
he also failed to mention that he himself does not know how to install the applications or know where they are kept, and yet he has been here 7 years and has palmed it off to the guy (me) that has been here 4 months and is a contractor and who has not done any of these installs before.

basically it looked like it was going to be a tricky job and he washed his hands of it, knowing it was high visisiluty and urgent, and then made me take the blame for it, even though it was originally his assigned to him to do.

anyways i went down to see him and said sorry dude, i don't have access to those server, but even still, can you just get me the documentation and packages and i will try and arrange access to install them. he told me he didn't know what the approved packages were and he was unaware that i didn't have access. bullshit. i told him that it could take me sometime to get it done, and he said thats cool, don't worry about it . don't worry about it??!!. so why the fuck did you mail everyone saying it was my fault it wasn't done and insinuating that i was dragging my feet or being lazy. shithead!!.

he is just playing that political game of trying to make himself look good by putting other people down, in the hope that it masks his own ineptitude and it saves his job, because deep inside he knows he is a chump, that can't do any real work in the outside world.

i told harry and he said he would have mailed straight back saying all the stuff about him leaving the builds half done and me not having access, but i just let it slide. i am out of here on friday and i don't need to defend myself. its not like i actually care what people think of me here.

today i have mostly been listenining to marilyn manson - tourniquet.
take you hatred out on me......make your victim my head

hope you are well california girl. xx