I'm putting this here because it's boring work stuff.
Regular readers might remember me talking about being completely fucked at work by an inept rival team lead by my enemy scott walker. He lied to senior management and they believed him. He knows he can't deliver and we can so he needs us to lose our jobs. We were called in to an emergency meeting with a senior old guy before christmas and told off for just doing our jobs because it was making the new team look bad. We were accused of refusing to cooperate when nobody had asked us to cooperate. It was like being in the naughty corner at school all because we did what we were asked and didn't fuck it up.
After this meeting our old line manager john told us we were completely fucked by politics so we shouldn't cooperate with anyone, and not answer to anyone, just do whatever the fuck we liked. Our current line manager chris didn't see eye to eye with him on this but isn't very good at managing people so he told john to make us cooperate, i.e. work to undermine our own jobs. john refused, he's a good guy and it seems chris is too scared to ask us himself. We just carried on working as normal because it still makes scott walker look bad.
So today we had a meeting with scott's team and the high up guy who told us off and an even more senior guy to try to force us to cooperate. me and my friend ian have this competition where the one who acts the most obviously bored / disinterested / doesn't give a fuck in any meeting wins. It comes across as quite disrespectful so I hadn't considered it in a meeting this important to our future careers but after only a couple of minutes he looked right at me and did a huge obviously fake yawn. I couldn't let it go so I started too. I thought I had won by rolling my eyes very theatrically and then laughing when the woman speaking lost her train of thought but ian had his laptop and started gmail chatting to people and continued for an extended period of time. I couldn't do anything to equal that so I was defeated.
childish is sometimes best. after that I was happy and was rude to some guy in another department who I don't even know on email.
