Work question

Where I work there was two 1st/2nd line guys and one third line guy that comes in twice a week. Then we had a very technical and experienced, account manager or lead technical guy. Well the lead technical guy left and the guy who was doing the third line job, got his job.

Now I was not impressed with the third line guy when he was doing the third line job because he had a very complacent attitude and would always take the "do as little as possible" approach and the "if it is not broken don't fix it". Which mean he did not apply any updates to any servers and was not proactive with anything technical.

Well as you would have guessed the other 1st/2nd line guy got the third line job. Now I am a bit annoyed by this as, although he was there first, i am more knowledgeable about servers etc. Not that I wanted the job, as i would probably have ended up doing the 1st-3rd line work anyway. Because at the moment i do 1st-3rd line.

But the thing is we have a lot of projects coming up and what i am more annoyed about is that now the new lead technical guy is not asking for my input, where the previous guy, at least pretended to listen 1st/2nd line input and would at least get us more involved on the project.

Has anyone else had similar situations like this, with people you work with getting promotions and one, not being up to the job, two, you actually being more knowledgeable than them?

Now this new third line guy is asking me questions, when before I would have helped him and i have taught him quite a bit. But now i don't want to teach him and kind of ****ed off about being "shunned" out of the project work.

Am i just being a moaning git about this ?

and who are you and if you are so fantastic why didn't you go for the "lead technical guy" job?

I think everyone has seen some dafty get a job because they can talk the talk but can't actually do the job. Look at it this way if the "lead technical guy" can't actually do the job he'll be found out sooner rather than later and if it's private sector he'll be booted or demoted. If it's public sector he'll be made management..

3rd line guy - not your job to teach him, although if you work in a team you should be helping each other out. You said you didn't want the job, so what's your problem? That's a bad attitude to have.

If you don't like it - move job. No point moaning about it, won't do any good.

groen said:

Not that I wanted the job

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So.. you're annoyed you didn't get a job you didn't want?

Man up.