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I worked with a guy who had multiple jobs like that, was supposed to be on call 24/7 for the job that he had in common with me. One day he finally answered the wrong phone with the wrong company name when his boss was out of town and some director tried to contact him in an emergency.

He was highly skilled, but also was not well liked by his peers. He knew how to suck up to no end, deflect blame for his own mistakes, and how to get out of work (presumably so he could do his other jobs) and get it dumped on others.

He was hated by his peers and it was no surprise (to anyone who worked with him as a peer one on one) when he got caught.

It was a similar situation where his skills were excellent when tried, but he chose to put them to use put to use to shaft other coworkers and honestly not do much at all / work elsewhere.

I ran into him later and as usual he was all about the excuses and about how he felt the folks at the company were bad people and so on, but it was like everything with him, a little truism that he bent to mean that he should get his no matter what the cost to anyone.



> but he chose to put them to use put to use to shaft other coworkers and honestly not do much at all / work elsewhere.

No. he put his skills to use to maximize his income and a side effect of that was screwing over his coworkers.


I'm not sure what the "No" part is here. Your statement seems very similar to what I said.


They look similar but there's a difference.

His primary goal wasn't to hurt those people, his primary goal was to make money. the hurting people was a side effect.


I didn't think of it as his primary goal, but it is who he is / he doesn't care. Work with someone like that and their intent doesn't matter as far as its impact on you.




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