My biggest was me being piggy in the middle to two different PM's for a large programme of works. My responsibilities came under both their umbrellas - one was a great guy and an excellent PM, the other was a useless pillock.
We clashed, to say the least. At one stage he was being quite unreasonable and I had to go and steal a whiteboard, we wrote down all my tasks and I said "Right, pick one and I'll do that - then pick another." It was going great, we developed a priority list and I thought I'd cracked him until right at the end he hand waved to half the board and said "Oh, obviously you'll need to be getting on with that at the same time". Funny to think about now, but at the time I was raging and came close to being quite unprofessional.
He managed to make what should have been an easy life stressful. Fortunately the other PM clocked it and gradually managed to take ownership of the bits I was involved in.
Annoyingly, outside of that he wasn't actually that bad a guy and was quite interesting to chat to. But, professionally, I wouldn't go near him. That said, he is the only person since school to moan about my internet usage!
We clashed, to say the least. At one stage he was being quite unreasonable and I had to go and steal a whiteboard, we wrote down all my tasks and I said "Right, pick one and I'll do that - then pick another." It was going great, we developed a priority list and I thought I'd cracked him until right at the end he hand waved to half the board and said "Oh, obviously you'll need to be getting on with that at the same time". Funny to think about now, but at the time I was raging and came close to being quite unprofessional.
He managed to make what should have been an easy life stressful. Fortunately the other PM clocked it and gradually managed to take ownership of the bits I was involved in.
Annoyingly, outside of that he wasn't actually that bad a guy and was quite interesting to chat to. But, professionally, I wouldn't go near him. That said, he is the only person since school to moan about my internet usage!
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