How to deal with colleagues doing idiotic things and how to deal with them without looking like a grand A tool.
Being copied into emails which I am involved in on the side lines, but the proposed course of action looks completely idiotic but others are congratulating each other on their brilliance.
If I intervene, potential to look like a tool but increases likelihood of better outcome (I have done this once before on this matter but was generally ignored). I am minded just to leave it now and let it play out. There is a degree of office politics involved in this one and I simply cant be bothered.
Risky I expect a chippy comment from you. Proving I am not yappy :-)
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Details of the stupidity pls.
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Unless it a) saves you a lot of unpaid work in the future, b) mitigates an existential threat to the business or c) is blatantly in breach of SRA rules or fraudulent, just leave it alone.
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I have one of these just now
did someone a favour, fixed a small but niggling file so they could focus elsewhere but now they have jumped back into it to prove that have been working on it all the time
unfortunately they don't realise that it is concluded and their urgent review if all for nothing so I don't have the heart to tell them
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Can we extend this to family members causing chaos by doing stupid things?
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If someone has just pulled a pin out of a live hand grenade of a problem and is shouting 'hey look! I told you all it was a dud!'
Run
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Raise concerns with your boss unless your boss supports the plan in which case leave it the fvck alone unless nanamans rules apply
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'boss supports the plan' well I suspect boss thinks its a stupid idea, but it doesnt directly affect them and is 'supporting' course of action for an easy life.
I was going to say something again, but frankly cant be bothered. Let it play out.
None of bananaman's rules apply. its basically a combination of one person being very naive with a combination of cutting others (not necessarily me) out the conversation and another egging them on for their own 'political reasons' and also completely misunderstanding what is needed here.
Ultimately if I intervened and my advice was actually followed higher likelihood of good end result, but the advice has been ignored once before for the reasons above.
i think what will be will be, and frankly intervening again creates a political shit storm potentially.
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I find this sort of scenario interesting because its really the environment/incentivisation mechanism/culture that is the "problem"
In businesses where people work together as a team then the answer is obvious, go and have a chat with your colleague and share your advice.
it just highlights where the interests of the business and the interests of employees are not aligned as well as they could be
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Adopt benign indifference mode.
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bananaman25 Mar 24 10:21
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Unless it a) saves you a lot of unpaid work in the future, b) mitigates an existential threat to the business or c) is blatantly in breach of SRA rules or fraudulent, just leave it alone.
You forgot 'd) gets you one over on your enemies and haters'
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Archibald, completely agree.
Intervention and (I believe) following my advice would be best for the whole. However, there are a number of other players, all of which for them individually would get more if it came off via the complained off acts. Problem is complained of acts mean less likely for the project to succeed.
benign indifference mode to be adopted. One of the players is not particularly well disposed to me, the others have no particular beef with me, but are proceeding as above for said reasons. However, it goes Pete Tong the person ill deposed to me will not get any consequences as has never before. Again going back to Archibalds point.
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