"Doing goodaroony with a cream horn on top".
I like Bob Mortimer. He's funny in a dry way and very clever. In this video below he plays the part of the annoying and up-himself sales executive that many of us recognise. For me it's absolutely creepy as the portrayal is almost exactly like a guy who worked for me.
The guy in question was employed as national sales manager reporting to me. I didn't employ the tosser - our Chief Executive did. He liked the fact that he played rugby!
In short the guy was trouble, having oversold his abilities yet he had a massive ego. We had to get rid of him, a fact that he contested by bringing a lawyer friend to the employment discussion meetings. We did successfully dismiss him and after he had gone, discovered emails on his work computer to the lawyer friend (and I think, flatmate) that were like the Bob Mortimer parodies above. These were interspersed with the most vile pornographic downloads. He really believed that he was much more clever than anyone else in the company and disparaged all of his workmates. If we had checked his computer earlier that would have been grounds for sacking him even if we hadn't already decided to get rid of him.
When art imitates life or vice versa.
5 comments:
You've been very busy posting.
Have you made up with your friend yet?
No
" He really believed that he was much more clever than anyone else in the company and disparaged all of his workmates".
That's a huge claim. How did you find out and objectively prove this?
I guess that you weren't at school on those days they tried to teach reading and comprehension to the G and M classes.
I said that we were trying to get rid of this guy. Of course we had evidence from fellow workers, customers, suppliers and me - his boss.
After we got rid of him the evidence on his computer proved all of the things that we had good reason to believe.
I guess you've never been an employer and learned in the correct procedural ways of removing a disruptive and poorly performing employee. These things were never taken lightly.
Maybe we should have converted and baptised him and then asked him to make a confession.
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