I've a project team which is currently working a school project.
There are 6 of us in the team.
So we've a guy who's tries to show that he is very "siao on" by
self electing himself as a leader and started allocating work to
the other 5 (including me), leaving none to himself.
He will make the excuse that he'll overseeing the project and
handling the liasing work with outsiders and monitoring the
progress etc. And he pretended to be busy when everyone else is
busy with their work. Very soon, even the liasing work was pushed
to me. He was saying, "can you call/email him and make an
appoinment etc., I've got to read the report format first
etc."
During the project, it involves doing cold calling on companies to
see whether they're interested in a course. So this self-appointed
team leader was reluctant to do cold calling himself. So he
assigned the other 5 to do the dirty work, while saying, "I've got
other issues to settle, you know, administrative issue." So while
others are calling and getting their ego bruised, he was happily
and selfishly settling his own school work and reading his emails
at his leisure.
And then occassionally, he'll ask those who are calling, "So have
you managed to get any new positive response?" When told no, he'll
say, "No. This is very bad. Keep calling more. I want positive
answers..." and even if it's a yes, he'll say," that's not enough.
You see, you should never assume that they'll confirm agree to the
course even if you managed to get an appointment with the person in
charge. We need to call extra companies to have backups. So you
need to keep calling more companies..."
Damn him. Do do you think he's a jerk?
I think I can even start a poll whether he's a jerk or not.
