by Tom Boyles

Created on: July 29, 2008

Although I don't recommend letting the "other guy" get the upper hand and "run you out" of the company you work for. Wouldn't you feel like that, after you leave the company due to the actions of the troubling co-worker, that that co-worker wins? Who would want the "other guy" to win? There must be a time when you just can't take it anymore and it ends up being best to leave. You can always justify it and tell yourself that the "other guy" didn't actually "win".

There's a few different ways to look at it and all of them have some tough decisions for you to make. First of all, should you just start looking for another job and get outta there? Or, do you start letting the co-workers boss know about their employees weaknesses and, after "tattling" every time something goes wrong, hope that they either leave on their own or are asked to leave? Lastly, how long can you take it just letting it go and deal with it every day, day after day after day? Ultimately, that's the other choice to make, just deal with it, let it eat at you over and over and over, and maybe even have the stress get to you so much that you start taking it out on your family, friends or yourself (possibly start making yourself sick).

Let's look at an example scenario and put it in perspective.

Jenna works for a company as a Manager of a design team. Her job is to manage a team of people who are graphic designers and their projects. Their projects are requested on a daily basis by the Marketing team. On the Marketing team is Ryan, whose role is to generate the promotions being offered to the company's customers. Jenna has an agreement with Ryan that in order to get the projects completed on-time, that a certain number of days are required. The deadlines are established by Ryan at the time the project is requested, so ultimately, Ryan can decide when the deadline is and make sure the request is submitted to Jenna in enough time according to the agreement.

Let's say that the project could possibly be a promotional postcard being sent in the mail, an HTML email (which is an email that includes graphics as well as text) or a new landing page on the company's website. Jenna explains it in simple terms. If a project is due on a Friday, the request needs to be submitted on the previous Friday to give enough time to complete the request. Jenna takes into account that several other employees in different departments have to do their part of the project before Jenna's team can ever start their part to complete

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