General: April 2008 Archives

When Kevin, my lead tester, was working as a regular tester under this guy called Marc, Marc treated Kevin and everyone around him like shit. So much so, that Kevin had to file an official complaint about him. The QA company that he works for (and we outsource to) hires people to test games and software, and stations them at various customer sites.

One day, Marc started acting the same way with his superiors, because he got a new job as a QA manager at IBM. He started bragging about it. During the whole 2-4 weeks towards the end of his job, he treated everyone around him worse than before. Then he left.

And found out that IBM cancelled the job.

So he crawled back to his first company to try to get his old job back. They told him to go fuck himself.

Then he tried to get a job at another major company as a test manager. He was almost hired. But then some of his former employees saw him there, and immediately went to management. They told him that if they were to hire Marc, that they would quit. They will never work for this guy again.

So they didn't hire him. Then the exact same thing happened at another nearby company.

Now he's applying to my company. Kevin found out and told my former boss not to hire him. He has made sure that the decision makers are aware of Marc's history with people.
It looks as though Marc may never work in Montreal again. That's a near-perfect retribution.

He wasn't smart enough to understand that this industry, it's a small circle as in media or publishing. Or maybe he just didn't care. He really thought that these testers getting paid $8 an hour and just out of high school were no better than rats in the street. But they develop and become more, and they find jobs around in the same market. Marc didn't think so, and he got what was coming to him.

It is nice when things work out the way they are supposed to.