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Originally Posted by MRCboicgy
Absolutely true. Recently, I survived a VP who was a real piece of work and put me on a ridiculous PIP. He was hired last summer, remote from the rest of the team, and just a real jerk to anyone. One day he announced he was leaving, and my old boss/VP texted me "they asked him to leave since no one liked working with him."
The trouble is a few really good people left for other jobs because of his dickishness.
Oh and I got the PIP expunged from my employment record because HR agreed "it was not actionable."
Since he left, I'm at a 5. Pretty luke warm.
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I don't think being an outward dick is better or worse than someone coy, but I find in a lot of the corporate world more often than not the person doesn't outwardly wear the devil horns. There are a ton of sociopaths out there. Some can be spotted, and some are great at manipulation. In a sort of way the coy person can be liked by a bunch of people and ride their rein longer. A dick is just that and is likely to rub the wrong person. In my case my VP appears to be the nicest person ever, but there are micro aggression's that flare and you see some true colours of subtle badmouthing. Everyone has their bad days, but when you see it in non-pressure or warranted situations a few times it's probably right to follow your intuition that they're just not a good person.