Skills for a PM

[mudskipper]

Talk loudly on the phone all day. Ensure the whole office can hear you, or how else are they supposed to know just how important you are?

Throw in words like "challenge" and "skills for the task" at least once every 60 seconds.
Make sure you spell out in detail every action you've taken and emphasise the actions that others have failed to complete.

Do not pause for breath - if you do the other party may be able to get their point across.

Anything I've missed?

[northernladuk]

Have a ridiculous work ethic of coming in well before everyone else and going later than everyone else and answering mails late at night and at the weekend and then expect everyone else to do the same?

[doodab]

Have a ridiculous work ethic of coming in well before everyone else and going later than everyone else and then expect them to do the same?

That's not a work ethic it's an incapability to keep on top of their workload.

[mudskipper]

One of these days I am going to lose it and shout "STFU". I expect a cheer from the whole office when I do.

[hyperD]

One of these days I am going to lose it and shout "STFU". I expect a cheer from the whole office when I do.

Would you like a piece of Chinese crunch?

[northernladuk]

That's not a work ethic it's an incapability to keep on top of their workload.

Exactly!

[vwdan]

Don't forget trying to brush huge architectural changes (That you don't understand) to the project under the carpet by starting your request with "It should simply be a case of [x]", where [x] may be "Build a moon base" or "Perfect fusion power"

Or how about promising completely unachievable deadlines to the client and then attempting to make it everyone elses problem?

[northernladuk]

One of these days I am going to lose it and shout "STFU". I expect a cheer from the whole office when I do.

We also have a guy like that here but he is just as loud when berating his kids and we know everything that is going on with his kitchen refit. I find it very hard to believe no one has ever told him. I am loud on the phone as are a couple of guys here so we get up and go to a 1 to 1 room or something. It's not hard to fix is it.

[MicrosoftBob]

Have a ridiculous work ethic of coming in well before everyone else and going later than everyone else and answering mails late at night and at the weekend and then expect everyone else to do the same?

True it can be fun to get in earlier than them, if they're rubbish it usually does unnerve them

When you leave early to miss the rush hour traffic, just remember safely ignore they're late night emails

[Scrag Meister]

Luckily the PM providing these services 5 feet from my desk has recently been moved to another floor.