So. I got jeeted at work recently. Instead of promoting me as they promised, the jeet manager hired another jeet with literally no experience in the field. As in, literally none. This man was waiting tables until last week. I'm not actually torn up about losing the promotion, as I was going to have to figure out how to avoid it, because it would be going form hourly to salaried, and I would actually lose money without the overtime pay.
So far, he's well received and well behaved, but I genuinely have a hard time looking at him. His expression never changes, and his gaze seems utterly soulless.
But most tellingly, he tried to talk to me. I eventually got him to go away, but the conversation was enlightening.
He began by asking how much one of my tools cost. And I generally try to avoid letting people know how expensive they are, because then they get stolen. So I lied and told him it was like twenty bucks. He then suggested to me that it would be better if, instead of ordering the correct tool, I ordered a cheaper one that didn't do the job, and have it modified. The idea was apparently purely a cost saving idea, but he seemed to think that if I undercut the price, I could pocket the savings.
Then, he insisted on telling me his entire career, including how much he was paid at each job. And insisted on name dropping one of the managers who seems to have actually been responsible for putting an unqualified man in a high skill job.
Maybe I am just strange, but as an american I have genuinely never talked to anyone about how much I am being paid. Especially not at a _former_ job. Nor have I ever felt a need to rattle off my entire resume. Like, sure, you sometimes bring up a funny anecdote from an old job, and maybe mention "Yeah, I delivered sandwiches on a bike for a summer". But it's part of the background.
This man tried to get me to tell him all my prior work history, and kept asking how much I was being paid.
My latest experience was similarly strange. The man is receiving basic training on the stuff people in his position should know. In this case, how data is collected, and how to request it. It was established that I would show him the things I do on a particular day, at a particular time. And I even made arrangements to have a project running at the time.
The day before the training was to take place, he was supposed to be trained by my boss. But he got tied up in meetings all day, and couldn't do it. He apologized to the jeet, and I seem to recall the words being "Sometimes things happen".
So the next day, he comes to me at the time we scheduled, and he says to me with a shit eating grin, says "Sometimes things happen", and walks off. And I didn't see him for the rest of the day.
