I joined my company about 45 days ago. In the project I've been assigned to, there is one another employee, who is evil. Quite a few incidents happened that demonstrated this:
1. He had been asked to help me with the project workspace setup on my computer. But he kept me waiting when I faced some issues. As in most software companies we used to communicate over instant messenger instead of having to walk to to one another's desk. He did not used to respond properly over the messenger. So I actually walked over to his desk and told about the problem. He listened to it, then continued his work ignoring me. I waited for 10 more minutes standing by him, and he kept ignoring me. Then he looked at his watch and said, 'We have a team meeting now' and walked away to the meeting room.
Then I only got the project workspace setup asking help from the manager.
2. The manager asked him to give me a code walkthrough of the project, and he readily agreed to do so. But he never once called me to do it. Twice when I asked him, he said, 'Yeah, we shall do it soon'. Then another day I once again asked him over messenger and he ignored my message. I thought probably he was busy, and pinged him on messenger the next day, and again he ignored it.
I informed the manager in a passive tense that 'The code walkthrough still hasn't happened'. He said the guy might be busy with some bug fixes. Then I got the code walkthrough only from the manager though he is a much busier man.
3. Last week, the manager asked the guy to explain me some of the features he had been working on, so I can handle any issues that may come up in his absence, as he was going on vacation. I was standing by the evil guy's desk when the manager said this. He said he had some checkins to do and he will explain after that. So I went back to my desk and was waiting for him to call me. I did not bother to ping him or ask him, considering his irresponsible behaviour in the past. He silently left for the day without bothering to explain me a word.
Today I have a one-on-one with my manager's manager. I'm going to complain about the XXXX to him. I'm planning to nicely state, "Some weird things have been happening in the team. Whenever <manager's name> asks <evil guy's name> to help me with some setup or give a code walkthrough, it never happens. I thought I should bring it to your notice". Any thoughts?
1. He had been asked to help me with the project workspace setup on my computer. But he kept me waiting when I faced some issues. As in most software companies we used to communicate over instant messenger instead of having to walk to to one another's desk. He did not used to respond properly over the messenger. So I actually walked over to his desk and told about the problem. He listened to it, then continued his work ignoring me. I waited for 10 more minutes standing by him, and he kept ignoring me. Then he looked at his watch and said, 'We have a team meeting now' and walked away to the meeting room.
Then I only got the project workspace setup asking help from the manager.
2. The manager asked him to give me a code walkthrough of the project, and he readily agreed to do so. But he never once called me to do it. Twice when I asked him, he said, 'Yeah, we shall do it soon'. Then another day I once again asked him over messenger and he ignored my message. I thought probably he was busy, and pinged him on messenger the next day, and again he ignored it.
I informed the manager in a passive tense that 'The code walkthrough still hasn't happened'. He said the guy might be busy with some bug fixes. Then I got the code walkthrough only from the manager though he is a much busier man.
3. Last week, the manager asked the guy to explain me some of the features he had been working on, so I can handle any issues that may come up in his absence, as he was going on vacation. I was standing by the evil guy's desk when the manager said this. He said he had some checkins to do and he will explain after that. So I went back to my desk and was waiting for him to call me. I did not bother to ping him or ask him, considering his irresponsible behaviour in the past. He silently left for the day without bothering to explain me a word.
Today I have a one-on-one with my manager's manager. I'm going to complain about the XXXX to him. I'm planning to nicely state, "Some weird things have been happening in the team. Whenever <manager's name> asks <evil guy's name> to help me with some setup or give a code walkthrough, it never happens. I thought I should bring it to your notice". Any thoughts?