JillofAllTrades
MIS
I have a coworker that is trying to sabotage my career. I have no idea why! He is actually a consultant, but has been working here for almost exactly as long as I have been - 4 years. He is unofficially the lead programmer and I am the PC/Network Admin.
Most recently, he asked for help with his home network including hosting a website. I started to help him against my better judgement, but ran into roadblock after roadblock. I could not get connected to him remotely and he could not describe what he was seeing very well.
At this point, he started to bad-mouth me to other coworkers, saying that our company doesn't need a full time IT person, that the newest programmers we hired had enough knowledge to maintain our systems. So I decided I was done helping him. He then asked another coworker to help with the home network. Miraculously, that coworker could connect remotely to his network and fixed his DNS problem in 10 minutes. Well, I could've fixed it in 10 minutes too, had I been able to connect remotely.
This guy then gave me a check for my time, which I insisted I didn't want. He left it on my desk. I picked it up to write VOID on it and I noticed that he didn't sign it anyway. (Intentionally?) I plan to write VOID on it anyway and give it back to him, pointing out the lack of signature anyway.
Now he just won't shut up about my incompetence and how useless I am to other coworkers. I know my boss likes me, but he values this guy's opinion very much and I wonder if this guy is also giving his opinion on me to my boss.
Do I proactively go to my boss or will I just sound like a high school girl?
Christine
Most recently, he asked for help with his home network including hosting a website. I started to help him against my better judgement, but ran into roadblock after roadblock. I could not get connected to him remotely and he could not describe what he was seeing very well.
At this point, he started to bad-mouth me to other coworkers, saying that our company doesn't need a full time IT person, that the newest programmers we hired had enough knowledge to maintain our systems. So I decided I was done helping him. He then asked another coworker to help with the home network. Miraculously, that coworker could connect remotely to his network and fixed his DNS problem in 10 minutes. Well, I could've fixed it in 10 minutes too, had I been able to connect remotely.
This guy then gave me a check for my time, which I insisted I didn't want. He left it on my desk. I picked it up to write VOID on it and I noticed that he didn't sign it anyway. (Intentionally?) I plan to write VOID on it anyway and give it back to him, pointing out the lack of signature anyway.
Now he just won't shut up about my incompetence and how useless I am to other coworkers. I know my boss likes me, but he values this guy's opinion very much and I wonder if this guy is also giving his opinion on me to my boss.
Do I proactively go to my boss or will I just sound like a high school girl?
Christine