During my short stint as a line manager
One of my staff was, unfortunately, an overweight French Linux zealot with borderline Aspergers and the most appalling BO problem I've ever come across. He was rude, truculent, sulky and refused to do as he was asked because - being a Linux god - he obviously knew better than everyone else be they the customers he was supposed to be serving or the managers who had a better grasp of the wider strategic situation than he did.

After one particularly irritating encounter with him, I went home and ranted to my partner about his behaviour. She agreed it was way over the line and suggested I text my boss - who was away at a conference - about the situation and ask for advice, possibly even for a sanction to start disciplinary proceedings. So I did.

I got no reply, which puzzled me, so I checked the outbox. To my mounting horror I realized I'd sent the message not to my boss, but instead to the object of my scorn.

Now you know why my stint as a line manager was a short one.
(MattDP (Squiggle), Mon 3 Aug 2009, 11:39, 1 reply)

Hmmm
I have Aspergers and I think it's rather derisive that you norms assume we all use Linux ... it's crap !
(OvahLairD Whats a delivery tree ?, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 22:14, closed)