Painful colleague

[fourstardan]

I've got a very painful colleague I need to work with in my team at the moment (Contractor).

I wasn't working directly with them on projects initially and from the outset everyone seemed to think he was good and knew his stuff and was Mr nice guy.

Now I've worked closer on things I'm seeing quite a lot of poor delivered work, with lack of detail needed and its mostly a quality against quantity thing to me. He is slapdash, suggests new fancy ideas then decides he's done enough and works on something else.

When confronted I find him quite rude and abrupt to always try and make me look wrong or an idiot. (I've been in the org for years and know history of stuff I talk about).

On the latest project he is grabbing all work possible to justify his position/contract and its really beginning to get on my nerves.

One Issue I have on this is he could end up leaving me with a whole bunch of stuff to pick up if he walked out of the contract. Another issue is I am perm and how can I justify my bonus at the end of a year (that is if we've got one this year lol) if he's taking workload of higher value?

Part of me says its time to move on from the company as management could be doing far better here to resolve this to me, the minute I said raised my feelings about the person in question I got told to deal with it myself!

Or am I just being out of order here?

[Semmelweiss]

Ask for his Statement of Work, and try to define his deliverables.

Work from that.

[fourstardan]

I don't think they treat contractors that way in my org...one of many basically.

[Mr Pointy]

If he's a contractor & you can demonstrate he's not performing then just terminate him. That's one of the reasons why you use contractors instead of staff.

[fourstardan]

Mr Pointy said:

If he's a contractor & you can demonstrate he's not performing then just terminate him. That's one of the reasons why you use contractors instead of staff.

I wish you was my boss!