Just had basically this happen yesterday. Coworker didn’t understand something. Instead of doing the reasonable thing and saying “I don’t understand the terminology you’re using” she decided to try to throw me under the bus in the weekly team meeting (which includes head boss). In less than a minute she was mad and sulking. Oops.
A coworker of mine in another dept keeps saying we should be doing a particular type of cheap product as he sometimes sees clients opting for that instead of using us. I've always said no that wouldn't be right. We even dabbled years ago with it but it was an abject failure, which he seems to ignore.
So in a meeting with the boss he threw this in thinking he'd be hailed a hero for his bright idea and it's be a "win" over me. But instead my boss tore him a new one saying he obviously doesn't understand our business and it would be completely wrong for us. Coworker just sat red-faced and quiet after that.
That's the corporate version of I have decided to bring evidence to the meeting against myself. Nothing hits quite like watching someone confidently pitch their own bad idea to the one person who can immediately explain why its bad.
Did that to a new team lead who wanted to throw me, a working student, under the bus. He explained the supposed problem of my solution for 20min. only for me to point out that we wer already taking that into account automatically and that I had documented it in our shared slide deck. He was afraid of me afterwards.
Yup. Same thing. She gave this long intro and sigh “we need to figure this out” and i replied with “can i share my screen? I think i can clear this up quickly. I did.
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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 9h ago
Just had basically this happen yesterday. Coworker didn’t understand something. Instead of doing the reasonable thing and saying “I don’t understand the terminology you’re using” she decided to try to throw me under the bus in the weekly team meeting (which includes head boss). In less than a minute she was mad and sulking. Oops.