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@Orek
*extremely brief*
- first experience working with him was him refusing to read a tutorial he needed to read because "it's too boring".
- despite having 4 years experience as a front end + backend dev, I spent 1 hour explaining what a web socket was.
- he spent a year as "project manager + head of R&D". We asked him to spend 2 weeks reviewing a tool and build a POC. Then write up a proposal for how to integrate it. First paragraph said it won't support 2 features we critically need, the remaining 6 pages went through how he would use it anyway. Doc took another 2 and a half weeks, all wasted.
- I spent 10% of his 6 months teaching him how to google.
- countless times Mis reading documentation.
- countless times hardcoding and awful shortcuts.
- came in late, went home early.
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@practiseSafeHex is your company in Las Vegas and is hiring? Promise I have a much more open mindset and love to learn and be creative.
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@practiseSafeHex thanks for the tldr; that guy became project manager and here I'm stressing out about my first front-end position...
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@gears unfortunately not, it's not even in the states.
Thanks for the offer anyway, but a long distance thing isn't what I need right now. I think I'm just going to stay away from developers altogether for a little while, focus on me you know? I just need to get my head straight again before diving into something long term.
... it's not you, it's me. -
@Orek all joking aside, no need to stress buddy. All this guy needed to do was focus and not be lazy.
Show a bit of passion for what your doing, don't take shortcuts and take opportunities to learn something new every now and then. No need to freak out over trying to be some kind of superstar, just don't be a problem to everyone around you, and you'll do fine
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
They break your heart too ðŸ˜ðŸ’”
Hahahaja!
Well today I got a fantastic surprise (truthfully). We hired a dev some months ago, who was on 6 months probation and, to put it politely, he was not going to pass it.
*side note: for details of some of the above, read my last 10 or so rants. They are pretty much all him.
Anyway, management put him on an improvement plan to make sure everything was fair, it wasn't working out, but they said we had to finish it to be fair.
So we had another 2 weeks left when he announced last night he's leaving for a new junior role, technical but not a dev.
Months of stress, heartache, bewilderment, late nights and weekends all just came to an end.
The English language fails me to express my overwhelming joy at this moment. The only way I can come close to it is to say that when he made his announcement, a colleague told me I should stop smiling as it could be taken as being rude.
I'd like to take this moment to thank the community for supporting me over the past few difficult months. Without you I probably would have tried to kill him with my dev rant stressball.
Thanks,
practiseSafeHex
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thank you
stress
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gone
high blood pressure
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