| Had a project manager who eventually became my director. The quick summary: - Was focused on empire building, wanted lots of underlings to help prop him up into management, vs. actually getting his project done, to the extent where he actively blew out the scope and made requirements gathering take almost an entire year - for a simple IT ticketing system - just so he could hire a team of BAs - Had different versions of the truth for every person he talked to, insisted on closed-door conversations with individuals, avoided ever bringing multiple people together, but consistently talked about people who weren't in the room in a disparaging way. No doubt he was disparaging me when I wasn't there. - Gaslit multiple people to believe their experience/views (and we're talking about a big team experienced IT professionals) were useless, wrong, that they were out of touch, and that they should be worried about their jobs - Conspired to get the existing director, who rightfully questioned all of this, fired, and succeeded, and then took his job, which he managed to have for six months before he was fired for incompetence (which is pretty hard to do in academia). I hear he asked one of my former colleagues who was also a victim of his near-sociopathy to help him find a job not so long ago; he was told to go and f* himself. |