Mine was at this one engineering company that had a "cad coordinator" who liked to play designer. Basically, a cad coordinator is the guy who runs the drafting department. I'm in the engineering group. We were responsible for the entire project that we were assigned.
The problem is, this premadonna thought his group had equal standing with the engineering group. In his eyes, they were just two separate groups under the same roof. So whenever I handed him red-lines to do and they didn't show things the way I wanted them shown, I couldn't make him change it, because he'd go running to the big boss telling him I wasn't following company standards.
I started off trying to work with this prick, but whenever he made executive decisions on "my" project, it was
my phone that would ring and I'd get my ass chewed out by the client. I finally had enough and told this guy,
"you just shut up and draw! If I want you to make receptacles look like daisy's and donuts, you better ******* do it!"
About an hour later I was in the big bosses office explaining why I wanted receptacles drawn like donuts. At that point, I didn't care whether I worked there or not, so I let my big boss have to! I told him,
"It's not fair you hold me 100% responsible for the project, but I'm not 100% in control of it. And you allow this guy, who's only worked in this company, doesn't know industry standards, doesn't go to any meetings, doesn't go to any site, doesn't talk to any clients, doesn't know the scope of the project, yet you wanna give him a say so on legally binding contract documents? Let me put it this way, boss, him and his group are so green, the grass is jealous."
From that moment on, I had to do my own drafting and never had another problem any of my projects for the rest of the time I was there. Which was about 6 months.
This is the biggest reason why I hate the tea party so much. Because they remind me of him. People with no job skills, wanting to run the government. That's like allowing an auto mechanic to perform heart surgery on you.
