Re:Ask HN: How to deal with incompetent people
by zldkz5 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:13AM
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> technically did not do anything wrong.
I didn't share everything that happened in two years time but just some vague summary. Is hard for someone that does nothing to do something wrong. In all the meetings we had his first thought was "let's find an open source alternative that does that for us" even in some highly customisable and domain specific solution that won't be available in GitHub for you to use. Or not any "how to do ...." search in Google can solve.
Yet, after more than two years, is still have lacks on how our infrastructure and the application works. And he still propose useless open source or SaaS solutions that don't fit at all our usecase because he doesn't even know what the applications do.
Is it wrong to say "we did" for tasks given to your team as whole? No, because after all everything is team's effort. At the same time, it is also not wrong to say "I did" when it is indeed only your effort alone. It's just playing with words for one's own gains.
What is very apparent, however, is your lack of confidence and interpersonal skills. You should talk to your manager (or skip to the next level) to assert the relative contribution between you and your colleague, based on hard evidence (git commit, wiki edit history, interviews with other teammates). Also you should do it as soon as possible after your colleague plays the word game while the manager for both of you still have fresh memory.
But now it might be too late for any of these. Move on to another team or another company.