[CodeGlitch]

Whilst technically leading a software project, I worked with a contractor who was so arrogant it defied belief. He told me he was smarter than everyone else in the organisation, and repeatedly told me that he used to work "at board level" whenever he wanted to override my decisions. You know what - I'm fine for anyone in a team to express different opinions and happy to take them on board, but there's a way of going about this without being so hostile. You don't accuse colleagues of being "stupid" (which he repeatedly told us) and then go on to make massive errors in the codebase, over-engineer everything and refuse to read documentation because "I know better". He seemed to really have it in for me, which is odd considering I've worked with plenty of software contractors some of which still message me years after they left just to say "hello".

I was ready to walk out the org but then COVID hit and thankfully I no longer manage him.

I was ill SO much during the time I worked with the guy - my body was definitely trying to tell me something.

I guess he would fall under "The Diva"?

[nmfisher]

If you were his manager, why couldn’t you can him?