Smooth, Dumb and Nasty Return! Or try to!

OK so after Dumb wrote me out of the project schedule, they realized that Dumb couldn’t finish the project by himself on time.  So Smooth just told me we were going to have to delay my transition so I could help them get done on time.
… wow. just wow.

First, even if they hadn’t sabotaged my work, I am appalled at just the sheer stupidity of writing me out of the schedule without telling me, then coming to ask me to bail them out.

BTW I anticipated they would scuttle my work, so I made a good, solid product, but I didn’t spend a whole lot of time on it.  I am still really happy with how it came out, and I may reuse pieces of it later. It’s another example of the “engine-interface” model, with a transparent proxy that drops messages in a JMS queue while the other side listens for incoming messages.

Of course, they are being “shrewd” and they haven’t yet told me they scuttled the work I did for them. But when I look at the schedule, there’s nothing in there that mentions my piece or the required integration work or anything. I think they are keeping quiet so that they can always say I’m wrong if I make a fuss.

So anyway, I went to my new boss and to the guy in HR who’s been extremely helpful in this transition and let them know I was … ah … unhappy about delaying the transition. Basically, I let him know that wasn’t going to happen. So my boss talked to Smooth, and Smooth backed off — nasty little weasel — and then the HR guy talked to both Smooth and Smooth’s boss about the situation.

Smooth is pretty nasty, though, and he may take one more pot shot at me before the end of the month. I’m not worried about it, though, because it will just call attention to his failure to plan, and it will escalate and get pretty nasty. The good news is that it’s extremely unlikely that they’ll fire me over this one incident, and this is after all a really small thing. As long as I’m nice to that nasty, ass-sucking little weasel, at least publicly, things will just work out.

I’m still just kind of amazed those guys can be that malicious and stupid at the same time.

Anyway, I’ve announced to everyone on my new team, cheerfully, that I’ve cleared my plate, and starting Tuesday (after the long weekend), I am working for them. HR can work out the details of the official transfer when it’s convenient for them.