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@nebagec718 and create a class of employees hopelessly dependent upon my skills for setting up printers, or worse, setting up compilers, setting up IDEs? No, fuck that shit. They need to grow a pair. I write fucking software, not babysitting people who won't figure things out. It also doesn't help them at all. They become hopelessly dependent on other people.
W...w...wha...whaaat?!
When you got an unsecure printer.
Source: Postize
So we have a new guy at our company. I don't know what his job description is, pretty sure not a dev. He comes to the devs and asks how to connect a printer. Some things that ran through my mind:
1. How did you get in the door?
2. There is this place called "Google".
3. Fucking figure it out! (This is my boss's attitude on a lot of things, and I have adopted this as well. Yes, ask for help when stumped, but you better have made an effort.)
Then I remembered this part from Super Star:
https://youtu.be/22F6AnqPGxg?t=19
What I did say was this: "I don't have a PHD cert. Printer Help Desk." It got a good laugh. Somebody else helped him when they had a chance. I think if I had helped I might have sent him things to search on Google. This is not a difficult skill to acquire. Problem solving skills are paramount in this company.
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