Fri.26.05.06. Chris was still angry with Colin particularly after his negative comments regarding the apparent absence of organisation, process and methodology displayed in the workshop. He had been inordinately critical about the poor quality materials along with substandard equipment that had been offered, the untidy, confused, working environment echoed by the leisurely, uncertain progress, constantly, inevitably repeated. Chris was equally aggravated by Colin’s inability to accept any advice or instruction regarding basic construction techniques. During any problem solving exercise Chris would suggest an approach that would inevitably be questioned by Colin. After various scribblings, verbal exchanges, discussions about tolerances, stresses and strains, aesthetic qualities, engineering requirements, design proposal suitability, cost restraints, effective modification, feasibility studies had all been vigorously contested, yet even after a final agreement had been reached, Colin would still, doggedly, pursue his own path. The obvious consequence of this has been project stagnation. From being ‘the font of all knowledge’ Colin has been transformed into ‘this turd from Parbold’. He is the mischief maker, the saboteur, the cowboy craftsman, the sneering prefect, the egotistical superior ‘know it all’, but most of all ‘the man who has bit the hand that has fed him’.
Something must dramatically change to prevent freefall.
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