Recently at my job I got to deal with one of those manager/employee types who LOVE to assume who is responsible for an issue on our corporate web properties, the FIRST thing they do is fire rockets up as high as they can. They do this with no consideration for others, the people working on the web team, the project managers, what else is going on outside of their current gripe, etc.

There’s a term for people like this but I can’t think of it at the moment.

Instead of investigating an issue further, they immediately report it to the top of the mgmt. food chain so that they look like they’re go-getters, the ones who appear to be ‘cards on the table’. The reality is that if you have an issue with another team, etc. It’s always best to get together with that team/employee and talk about your frustrations, the issues that have come up, and then work together to fix them. Otherwise, you just look like a whiny bitch…..

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