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I heard some news today.



It wasn't my favorite and my reaction was more or less to be expected.



I was on my team call and leader announces that our procurement liason from customer is moving on after just barely a year. Not great news as we really liked her.



He goes on to mention that her replacement is Pro-competition vendor A ( not good news for us) and came from company A.



I speak up and ask "Is this person from Company A male or female?"

Leader responds "Male."



"Do you know his name?" I ask.

" I can't recall it. " he says.

"It wouldn't be Obnoxious Customer would it?" I ask

"Yes!! That's it!!! Do you know him?" leader asks....



I inwardly groan as I say exasperatingly....



"That guy is a jackass".



everyone laughs and tells me the usual "tell us how you really feel". I then say

"And that's the nicest thing I can say about him"



I go on to explain WHY I know this.



when I started my career at Top3TelecomCompany, I supported Obnoxious Customer's account at Company A. He left. I worked the year out. Then I was tranferred to Larger Company B. I happily supported this account for a year, then Obnoxious Customer Joined Larger Company B in NY. Not only do I now have to deal with him, but I am forced to see him week in and week out in his office. What joy for me. I then left that account in order to go to the Largest Company C that I currently support. I have been here now for 4 years.



He joined largest Company C on Monday. I am disgusted. Why Can't he leave me alone???? He's not a nice person, he screws people over all the time, his hidden agenda makes me nuts and to top it off there's the unethical behaviour that always makes me batty.



So I ping my director on IM and ask hiim it's true. He said simply:



YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



We both supported Company A and B in our recent past so both know what we are dealing with. Poor leader doesn't. So now I have to have a chat with him.



To top it all off, because of the long standing relationship I had with Company B, I developed quite a lot of friends there that I retain to this day. One of them lost her job 2 months ago because Obnoxious customer took her position after telling her he wasn't going to. Then he left 7 weeks later.



I couldn't get off that call to talk to her fast enough. I couldn't believe this was happening to me. Again. My director had a chat with her too ( we all worked together years ago ) last night for an hour.



I am planning to stay far away from this guys radar. Given his position and my historical lack of interaction at that level, it shouldn't be too hard.

Like I need more pressure ???? Lovely.