Re:Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?
by sverige on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:25PM
(#20072433)
Late reply, but here are the bullet points:
* Offered expensive incentives to my employees during one particular crunch time -- incentives that were to come out of our pocket, not his -- then lied about it
* Used insulting, demeaning language when addressing me, my direct reports, and some of the first-level employees
* Made racist comments within earshot of the targets
* Shifted goal posts constantly so that last week's goal suddenly became only halfway there
* Tried to get competitive information during contract negotiation time by buying my directs drinks at "social hours" and/or offering seeming insider information to get them to reveal the reasoning behind our negotiating positions
I could go on, but that gives the flavor. My boss got him out by pushing very hard with her superiors and his superiors on a (partially trumped up) sexual harassment charge. Normally that would really upset me, but in this particular case it seemed like old-fashioned rough justice.
* Offered expensive incentives to my employees during one particular crunch time -- incentives that were to come out of our pocket, not his -- then lied about it
* Used insulting, demeaning language when addressing me, my direct reports, and some of the first-level employees
* Made racist comments within earshot of the targets
* Shifted goal posts constantly so that last week's goal suddenly became only halfway there
* Tried to get competitive information during contract negotiation time by buying my directs drinks at "social hours" and/or offering seeming insider information to get them to reveal the reasoning behind our negotiating positions
I could go on, but that gives the flavor. My boss got him out by pushing very hard with her superiors and his superiors on a (partially trumped up) sexual harassment charge. Normally that would really upset me, but in this particular case it seemed like old-fashioned rough justice.