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Master Don Juan
Long story short, a year ago I took a promotion with my company into a management position, and am helping start up an office at a new location. My company bought out a struggling company (due to the economy) and now part of my job is to start my own client base while at the same time acclimating the new office employees to our company's culture. As you can imagine, half the office is on board, the other half is not. The other half falls victim to the head of the office, the former owner, and have adopted a sort of welfare position - that they are just riding out the current situation until the economy picks back up. Hard for me to explain this on a message board.
The problem is, the former head the office. A real two faced prick. Runs his mouth recklessly, no regard for others feelings. And he's a slick talker. He's got control issues, wants credit for everything. He really turns on the charm when the company big wigs come to town, while the day before, he was talking **** about them. Just a drama queen all around. Just walks around the office all day trying to stir up dumb crap like a woman.
Well, we've been butting heads as expected. He doesn't want to do the things necessary to expand the office - he's happy the way it is (not my company's plan - they want to grow). He's done a good job coming up with excuses why we can't as well, like I said, he's a slick talker. He's higher than me in the heirarchy per se, but I'm very well thought of inside the company. While he technically has the rank, rumors have been spreading about this guy. If it's not his idea, it's a bad idea. You know what I mean? He talks personal **** to the people in the office he feels threatened by, a real passive aggressive ****head if you get my drift. He's driving wedges between people and making things extremely difficult and discouraging.
Basically, my company may would have been better to just send me alone down here and maybe hire one or two of this office's employees instead of buying the whole office.
Anyone have any experience is combating this sort of thing, and winning? Should I notify upper management? If you're unclear on any details, just ask and I'd be glad to expound. It's the counterproductive attitude, trying to one up me on everything, that's really the issue. He's 10 years older than me, should be a mentor, but instead acts like a child, trying to sabotage and play games.
The problem is, the former head the office. A real two faced prick. Runs his mouth recklessly, no regard for others feelings. And he's a slick talker. He's got control issues, wants credit for everything. He really turns on the charm when the company big wigs come to town, while the day before, he was talking **** about them. Just a drama queen all around. Just walks around the office all day trying to stir up dumb crap like a woman.
Well, we've been butting heads as expected. He doesn't want to do the things necessary to expand the office - he's happy the way it is (not my company's plan - they want to grow). He's done a good job coming up with excuses why we can't as well, like I said, he's a slick talker. He's higher than me in the heirarchy per se, but I'm very well thought of inside the company. While he technically has the rank, rumors have been spreading about this guy. If it's not his idea, it's a bad idea. You know what I mean? He talks personal **** to the people in the office he feels threatened by, a real passive aggressive ****head if you get my drift. He's driving wedges between people and making things extremely difficult and discouraging.
Basically, my company may would have been better to just send me alone down here and maybe hire one or two of this office's employees instead of buying the whole office.
Anyone have any experience is combating this sort of thing, and winning? Should I notify upper management? If you're unclear on any details, just ask and I'd be glad to expound. It's the counterproductive attitude, trying to one up me on everything, that's really the issue. He's 10 years older than me, should be a mentor, but instead acts like a child, trying to sabotage and play games.
