Blog n' Bitch...No Time For Games

Blog n' Bitch...I don't hate my job (at least I think I don't), I just hate the asshole I have to work with.  I mean, really, really dislike.  My boss hired a couple of  temps about 2 months ago because we're swamped with work.  Unfortunately she stuck me with managing two of them.  One is okay, fine, no problem.  The other is a complete back-stabbing, lying, piece of worthless crap.  I cannot stand him.  I swear, he makes me want to drink, eat a gallon of ice cream, or just bury my head under the covers and cry.

It's been a personality clash since day one.  First of all, he's straight away out of college and pining for a job.  Fine, isn't everyone?  Second he has told me it's not my place to tell him how to do things as I'm not his "manager."  Excuse me?  My manager told me I had to manage him and train him.  She also had that discussion with him.  See how this is going?  And yes, I've had this discussion with my manager on several occassions, in which she said she'd handle it.  Not so.  (I think she just thinks I'm there to bitch and blow off steam?)  Of course this guy kisses her ass like there is no tomorrow so it's, "yes ma'am, oh for sure."  And then complete opposite when she walks away.  Am I just imagining this?  NO!  The rest of our team sees the same.  Clearly we don't all have bad prescriptions in our contacts???

I've trained him until I'm blue in the face, made training materials so he has step by step visuals with step by step instructions.  Every email I explain to him (I'm beginning to think he fell off the short bus)...and today during our team meeting he attacks me again.  He insists he doesn't understand anything I send him and it's just not fair that he have to do this work when he doesn't know anything.  Now, if he didn't understand anything I sent him, why did he not send it back to me with his questions?  Asking for clarification?  Come sit with me so I could walk him through it?  What language do I need to speak?  I'm not fluent in stupid.  INSTEAD he waits a week until we are all together and attacks me in a meeting infront of my peers and tries to make me look stupid.

I've had it.  I have little patience in relationships of any kind.  You either are or you aren't.  You're kind and play nice or I don't play.  He's an asshole, I know that...but I don't do those corporate step on people to get somewhere kind of games.  I have no time nor patience to invest in them.  I have work to do.