With DM, our Project Manager, on Maternity leave, our esteemed head of HR, NM, hired Maynard to fill in.
Now for those of you who do not know, a Project Manager is responsible for keeping projects on track. Without a good one a project is doomed to failure. Project Managers are also charged with making sure that all relevant paper work is completed and up to date: schedules, gantt charts, meeting minutes, emails, development diary, and much, much more.
Well, the problems with Maynard began on day one. A key duty of his was to take minutes at development meetings to be circulated at a later date. That morning we had a marathon meeting where the whiteboard was filled and erased many times. Some outstanding work was accomplished and I was very interested to review the minutes when they were ready...
Did I mention that Maynard's first language was not English? In fact his English skills were poor at best. The minutes were as humorous as they were useless.
As time unfolds it becomes apparent that he is doing very little of the standard paperwork.
As you can imagine, the big boss, DC, quickly became frustrated with Maynard. There was only one thing to do: he was removed from all of DC's projects.
He gave him to me.
That is right. The process is to identify an employee as incompetent then pass him on to me.
And guess who gets blamed when the project goes south?
Arrgghh...
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