Just give the new guy plenty of room - he'll hang himself...
Thats what I thought too, at first...

But he's now already caused me to have to do a preservation install of UNIX once (because he wrote over my backup tapes the same week our ODM became corrupted).

He's brought our warehouse printing to a stop for most of a day because he decided he was going to run something on the server despite the fact that both I and the manager had asked him not to run it (which is big deal to not be able to print packing slips when your sending out thousands of orders each day).

Etc, Etc, etc...

Yet the manager just keeps letting him barrel through it -

So then you have a kiss ass at the top with no technical skills running the show. Generally, the guys with the skills under him will usually just kind of "give up" and just come to work to make a paycheck instead of being proactive in anything anymore.
Ain't that the truth, I'm so close to giving up and letting it all just break around him - but I'd really rather not have to pick up the pieces once he's done... What makes it worse, is that I truelly 'like' the company I work for and what we do here, and I don't want to see it suffer due to this idiot...

RRP