There is one Shitshow router that I feel the need to introduce, Queen Perfume. If you’ve read the post about Shitshow routers, the example given is about her. The reason Queen Perfume needs special introduction is because she’s a special class of flunky, she’s half Shitshow router and half Bob like.
Not only does she just route other people's information to higher ups, she is never around. She shows up to meetings late and leaves after ten minutes (if she shows up at all) on topics she should own. She “works” from home every Friday, and she never shows up afterhours even if by her role on the program she is the right person to be showing up. Instead I get to show up, and pick up all her crap. Her direct program manager even asked me for help because Queen Perfume wasn’t around and he didn’t trust her technical ability to be able to address her own problem. I reported this to another program manager, in an attempt to throw rocks, and the next day he lectured me about being a team player. It was like I was in Planet of the Apes.
To top this off, she douses herself in foul smelling perfume which lingers behind everywhere she has been. Not to long ago, I thought I smelled Queen Perfume around, but she wasn’t in her office. I decided to follow the direction of the scent to track her down. Like a basset hound I was able to follow her perfume trail to the conference room where she was in a meeting.
Because I can follow the scent of Queen Perfume, and get lectured about being a team player when I point out I’m doing her work, I throw rocks.
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