There was a very long pause. He then found his words and asked how it was possible for me to finish a project (that would have normally taken 8 hours) in 30 seconds.
I had approached a previous similar project with a heavy focus on re-usability. The skeleton just needed XML added to customize it. And that could be added quicker than workers could get to that section requiring it. After that he actually asked why I had done that without permission.
Me: Because you wouldn't have been able to understand it. And because of that you would have said no.
I have an innumerable number of examples from this guy. I could start my own PHB cartoon. He kept his job because loyalty is often more valued than competence. (And in his case loyalty meant routinely fudging timesheets and not paying the grunt workers their full pay.)
I had transferred from a satellite branch to the main branch. I stayed a year under this doofus out of loyalty to the manager from the satellite branch who had recommended me. I quit at exactly 1 year. Contracted for them for 4 more months and oh was I glad to be gone.
Several months after I left I made some friends who used to have the doofus in their social group. He was ostracized and no longer welcome because he had stolen money from coats and purses piled onto a bed at a get-together.
I was also responsible for training my two replacements. I recommended that they not keep one of them. They did. After I had left this other guy managed to do a "rm -rf" on the primary SCO UNIX server that dispatched work to everyone. He also managed to improperly rebuild a RAID array on a W2k3 server and wipe everything. He also...
Wait. I feel the PTSD kicking in. Needless to say, it was a very dysfunctional work environment.
wow, yeah. every now and then i realise that no matter how dysfunctional my previous jobs have been, there have been other people who had it far worse.
I had approached a previous similar project with a heavy focus on re-usability. The skeleton just needed XML added to customize it. And that could be added quicker than workers could get to that section requiring it. After that he actually asked why I had done that without permission.
Me: Because you wouldn't have been able to understand it. And because of that you would have said no.
I have an innumerable number of examples from this guy. I could start my own PHB cartoon. He kept his job because loyalty is often more valued than competence. (And in his case loyalty meant routinely fudging timesheets and not paying the grunt workers their full pay.)
I had transferred from a satellite branch to the main branch. I stayed a year under this doofus out of loyalty to the manager from the satellite branch who had recommended me. I quit at exactly 1 year. Contracted for them for 4 more months and oh was I glad to be gone.
Several months after I left I made some friends who used to have the doofus in their social group. He was ostracized and no longer welcome because he had stolen money from coats and purses piled onto a bed at a get-together.
I was also responsible for training my two replacements. I recommended that they not keep one of them. They did. After I had left this other guy managed to do a "rm -rf" on the primary SCO UNIX server that dispatched work to everyone. He also managed to improperly rebuild a RAID array on a W2k3 server and wipe everything. He also...
Wait. I feel the PTSD kicking in. Needless to say, it was a very dysfunctional work environment.