I work with this guy who thinks he is better and smarter than everyone else

[Guava Jelly]

He really isn't that good at what he does but he thinks he is.
He has this weird Idea that by gossiping and talking trash about his other coworkers it somehow makes him seem more valuable.
He is quick to point out when a coworker makes a mistake even if the mistake is small and doesn't really mean that much in the end.
I feel he is vastly overpaid for the job he does but he feels he is entitled to more than he truly is.
Today he complained about a product a friend of mine made and how it should have been done a certain way.
He was wrong of course..But he has this strange idea that somehow It makes him and his work worth more by tearing apart others who actually are better than he is.
He can't talk about how good he is or why he deserves a raise and promotion.
But he can trash everyone else in the hope that he will look better than the alternative.
I am glad Politics aren't like this..
That would suck..

[panader0]

1. Many people are not comfortable with themselves. Those people need

others they can "look down on", whether they are better or not, in order to feel right.

[Guava Jelly]

2. This is true

It reflects more on themselves than it does others

[MichiganVote]

3. Which primary is he running in?

[Guava Jelly]

4. I don't know..

I will say that he is probably the biggest sexist/bigot I have ever met..(this is true)

[MichiganVote]

11. Well to read the posts on this board...must a Democrat of some stripe :)

[Guava Jelly]

12. He tells me he is a democratic voter.

He isn't impressed with Hillary or Barack..("Because she is a woman and he is a N___er"... exact quote )
He doesn't like McCain either..I would bet he sits out the next election.
I don't believe everyone here is sexist and racist..It is just the silly season ;)

[MichiganVote]

13. Nice guy.

[Guava Jelly]

14. Poor guys GMC Truck was keyed saturday (wasn't me)

It couldn't have happen to a nicer guy

[MichiganVote]

16. Maybe you're not the only one who finds the Godlike mantra tiresome

[Forkboy]

5. What are you talking about? We don't work together.

:D

[Guava Jelly]

7. Thats the problem!

;) (I like being cryptic)

[mudesi]

6. Sounds like your coworker is Hillary Clinton

My condolences.

[Guava Jelly]

9. I wish it was Mrs.Clinton

At least I would have a coworker that I knew wasn't a racist.
Why do people keep suggesting that I am talking about politics? :dunce:

[C_U_L8R]

8. Some people just can't deal with losing

and have to take it out on the opponent who bested them.
Poor sports. We got em by the DUmptruck full.

[Guava Jelly]

10. People are competitive

We all need the money and have families to feed.

[rucky]

15. What's his screenname?

[Guava Jelly]

17. He isn't a member of DU

He is a huge man with arms the size of my legs.I'd have to shoot him to stop him..
And all he knows how to do on a computer is check his email and look at boobies on Break.com

[TlalocW]

18. I worked with a guy like that

He would tear down other people even though he has no real skill. When proposing a new idea, it would always come from him and someone else so if the idea was rejected, he could say something like, "Yeah, I told 'the someone else' that I didn't think it would work, but he wanted me to propose it anyway." If once in a blue moon it was a good idea, then he would make sure the manager knew it was really his idea, and the someone else had just helped on something minor. He would constantly steal other people's ideas - even in meetings... right after someone said something. For instance I might say, "We should develop a tracking database for that." He would then jump in and say the exact same thing literally right after I said it. He worked support but thought he was a programmer, and depending on the manager he had at the time, he wouldn't answer the phones like he was supposed to but pretend to program stuff. He was constantly pissed off whenever he was passed over for a management position. He tried to cheat at a company golf game designed to raise money. The one time I went out with him in a group from work to a pub (coincidentally for St. Patty's Day), he kept trying to convince people to buy pitchers so he could mooch off other people then tried to convince us to leave without paying because he supposedly knew the owner.

Just 3 weeks after I had started working there, he was taking over duties from someone who had gotten promoted, and our department had had more than enough trouble dealing with him in my first 3 weeks. These duties involved our hand-off meetings for new programs we developers had written. It was also my first one, and I told my supervisor who was coming with me to let me handle that guy. So when we walked in to the conference room, I said, "Oh, look here's Pam and her new trainee Matt. We're going to have to get him a paper hat that maybe says Scooter or Skippy on it so he can wear it for a few months and afterwards, we might give him a badge if he's come along... " etc. It pissed him off so much (plus he wasn't good thinking on his feet for comebacks) that he was always quiet in the meetings while he held that position. My manager complemented me on a job well done.

After I left, I would run into a former co-worker a lot in a gym, and he was constantly tearing his hair out over that guy. I told him he needed to have fun with him, and I suggested making up technical-sounding words, using them only around him, and then waiting for him to use them in meetings. I even gave him an example. Next time I saw my ex-co-worker, he told me that the guy had been using my fake word a lot to seem smart.

TlalocW

[Guava Jelly]

19. He sounds like a politician

.

[liberal renegade]

20. he sounds like a sexual intellectual

(aka) a fucking know it all!

[Guava Jelly]

21. I have noticed that the moment we start to believe that we know it all

is the exact moment that we stop learning.
He knew it all several years ago.:eyes:

[catnhatnh]

22. All I read is your subject line...

...are you Condoleeza Rice?

[Guava Jelly]

23. Nope

Just A guy that has noticed a few similarities between the actions of a self centered Bigot and the tactics of Kitchen sink politics