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Just need to vent a little about the alcoholic that works for my company. Warning: Long.

First, a little background info- This guy had first applied to work in outside sales.  They didn't think he was good enough for that, so they hired him to be the guy who goes out and gets new accounts.  Technically, this position is also outside sales, if it's done properly. However, as it stands now, The Drunk lets all the outside sales guys find the new accounts, then he swoops in a closes the deal (ie, goes in with the paperwork, makes impossible to keep promises) and then takes the credit for finding the new account.  Nice, right?

Add this to the fact that he's a raging alcoholic- he's crashed his company vehicle 6 times (only one of which he actually reported and all of the times he was drunk--this isn't hearsay, by they way, this is fact and general knowledge). Now because of his bad driving, the company purchased a new driving insurance policy and we all have to go to safe driving seminars. 

But wait, there's more!  The Drunk actually threatened another employee ('I'm gonna kick your ass!').  He wasn't kidding.  This was b/c someone had anonymously put a print out of a portable breathalizer kit in his mail bin.  There's a lot of joking and comraderie in my company, so most people wouldn't have blown a gasket over this. The Drunk did. Apparently, it hit home.  Incidentally, the two people that he threatened hadn't put the paper in his mail bin anyway.

Here's the clincher. The president of the company thinks this guy is the cat's meow, refers to him as "buddy" and has no idea what's really going on.  My boss (who is also .  The Drunk's boss) didn't really do anything about the 'ass kicking' incident.  This has raised a ruckus throughout the company b/c The Drunk should at least be written up, if not fired (I'm in support of the latter). 

So, basically, the entire company hates him, he's a raging alcholic, a ticking time bomb and probably only works about 10 hours a week.  The rest of the time, he's hanging in bars and crashing his company vehicle.  And he's a complete idiot and an absolute pig. 

Here's where this affects me.  He makes ridiculous promises to new accounts that I'll design logos and ads and brochures for them in a ridiculously short time period (ie, a few days). As if I have absolutely nothing else to do.  I'm one of the busiest people in the company b/c I'm the only one in my department.  And keep in mind, I've only been there for three months, so I'm still learning.  What's more, he makes these promises and expects me to do all of this work with a new account which we have no guarantee is going to be profitable for us.  This, to me, is a bad business decision. 

But The Drunk, likes to get in my face and yell at me b/c he thinks I should have everything done yesterday, which is impossible.  Some things take a while to design. He has absolutely no understanding of how marketing materials work.  He actually approached me once by coming straight at me, yelling and wagging his finger in my face.  It was actually pretty threatening. I told him to back off and never approach me like that again.  And then I continued to tell him off about the way he was behaving and his ridiculous demands.  I was the company hero.  My boss  backed me up on this, too, telling The Drunk what a fabulous job I'm doing and that I'm extremely busy and that I'm producing things at a really rapid speed despite the fact that I'm new.

I seriously can't stand this guy. He constantly is trying to get other people in trouble. Yesterday, I heard that he's going around saying that I'm a useless bitch. I know that no one esle thinks this, but it pisses me off that he's behaving this way.  It's completely uncalled for and he's the one that's useless.  I just had my 90 day review and my boss had nothing bad to say at all and nothing bad to report from anyone else.  In fact, I've had just about everyone tell him that my work is outstanding and that they really like what I'm doing and they also like me as a person. 

But I'm still bothered by this drunken baffoon b/c I have to deal with him. I think he's completely unprofessional and he's also made some inppropriate sexual comments to me. But given that he threatened another employee and the company failed to react, I doubt that anything I say would matter. 

Anyway, thanks for letting me vent.  This guy had me really pissed yesterday and I just needed to get it out.