Originally posted here by dinowuff
Just give the new guy plenty of room - he'll hang himself
True. I've seen this happen first hand. When you have someone in your Dept. that is always quick to "pull the trigger", you find that when you step in and interviene, not only are you saving the company from a hardship, but you are also helping that certain someone not look like an idiot and hence they keep their job longer. Eventually this becomes a frustrating cycle and you will find that if you continue to do things "in the best inerest of the company" you will always face ridicule, confrontation and technical arguments. Sometimes it is just easier to let people break things and then fix them. I'm really disapointed that this type of scenario happens more oftent than it used to.


Originally posted here by bpiedlow
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
I've watched others deal with a situation like this and usually the best thing to do is to get a job lined up before you get disgruntled. Once you have a job lined up, you can either move on, or jump the chain of command and see how much you can get done, and if you face ridicule at that point, at least you can roll out.......