Bore
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That's it, I am giving my new colleague a nickname: Bore.
HE IS SUCH A BORE
He just keeps talking and complaining and whining and philosophizing and asking questions.
He came to the company 2 weeks before me. And according to him, he's been given nothing to do, which is like a huge slight against his honor. There's not a sentence where he doesn't mention how he's bored and doesn't have tasks and they don't trust him, whine whine whine.
Me: OK, since you'll be focusing on frontend during this first phase of the project, why don't you do a little research into different charting libraries we can use for the frontpage? Maybe put together a little prototype, until the real work gets underway?
Bore: Ah yes, CryptoBoss told me to do that as well.
Me: .......
Wait.... so they actually gave you a task to do. And instead of doing it, you spent two weeks chilling your balls and whining like a bitch?
Even now, instead of actually coding this prototype and leaving me alone, he keeps talking and wasting time with nonsense. If I have to sit through another whine fest how he never worked in React and had just spent a few days learning the basics for the interview test and how he'll need more time to ramp up blah blah blah, I'll off myself.
Hey fucker, YOU HAD TWO WEEKS! What were you doing all this time!?
I am starting to get a bad feeling working with this guy....
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Do you know this company well enough to get an idea how long an ass employee like this would last?
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@the_quiet_one said in Bore:
Do you know this company well enough to get an idea how long an ass employee like this would last?
Well he's lasted 2 weeks longer than cartman's been there - I'd say the signs aren't looking terribly auspicious.
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@the_quiet_one said in Bore:
Do you know this company well enough to get an idea how long an ass employee like this would last?
It's a brand new startup, that's hiring people for the first time. Who knows.
I do know that there's no way this guy would have passed through my mettle.
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
If I have to sit through another whine fest how he never worked in React and had just spent a few days learning the basics for the interview test and how he'll need more time to ramp up blah blah blah, I'll off myself.
So he keeps telling you he was hired on false pretences? Can you make use of that to rid yourself of his whining?
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
I do know that there's no way this guy would have passed through my mettle.
Fuck working for others, get your own startup going, focused on technical interviews.
frutify.io or something juicy like that.
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CryptoBoss just dropped in for a little chat. Of course, Bore had to whine a bit to him about his "unfair" treatment.
CryptoBoss: I apologize, I saw you were diligently studying, I didn't want to bother you.
Bore: (his English is not top notch) Err... I don't understand... "diligently"?
Me: He means you were learning react very hard over the past two weeks.
Bore: (goes pale) Ah... yes.... of course.
Poor CryptoBoss. It seems he hired this guy because he offhand mentioned he's into crypto currencies. He should have hired for talent instead.
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
CryptoBoss just dropped in for a little chat. Of course, Bore had to whine a bit to him about his "unfair" treatment.
CryptoBoss: I apologize, I saw you were diligently studying, I didn't want to bother you.
Bore: (his English is not top notch) Err... I don't understand... "diligently"?
Me: He means you were learning react very hard over the past two weeks.
Bore: (goes pale) Ah... yes.... of course.
Poor CryptoBoss. It seems he hired this guy because he offhand mentioned he's into crypto currencies. He should have hired for talent instead.
So does your new company have anything with "blockchain" in it? Because that seems to be where the
vultureventure capital is now.
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So does your new company have anything with "blockchain" in it?
It will when Bore end up tied to a concrete block, with a chain, at the bottom of some lake.
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So does your new company have anything with "blockchain" in it? Because that seems to be where the vulture venture capital is now.
Well, if "CryptoBoss" wasn't a hint enough, I'll reveal that, yes, my current company does operate in the cryptocurrency/blockchain business.
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Bore interrupted me to suggest that we shouldn't be interrupting each other more frequently than once every 2 hours.
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@cartman82 Tell him 2 hours later that you'd appreciate that.
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Or tell him how great it is to work uninterrupted every 5 minutes.
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Bore wants to discuss high-level architecture concerns regarding immutability updates in redux and is speculating on ways we can stress test the framework under high update loads.
As far as I know, he has yet to write even a hello world app with redux.
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@thegoryone said in Bore:
I wouldn't worry about that happening, he's clearly got his eye on a position in middle-management after that bout of verbal diarrhea (Considering it sounds like he can't even use Redux...not that I can in fairness). If only he'd added that he wanted to close the circle or something something synergistic something, he'd be promoted already.
It's more like, the guy is a philosopher to the extreme. If he can pick between talk and do, he'll pick "talk" every time.
I've yet to see his frontend code, but the few bash/php things he has on git are kind of decent. So I am still hoping he might turn around once he has clear feature goals and has to start delivering.
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
If he can pick between talk and do, he'll pick "talk" every time.
Let's guess, he will be credited with all the good ideas, you will be blamed for anything not working in production.
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My corn is freshly popped.
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Bore has spent past several days watching coding videos. He is yet to write some, any code, as far as I can tell.
Yesterday, I decided to push him along a bit, and bootstraped his react + redux project. He was all like, "Thank you so much, Legend! Now I can finally see how everything should be tied together!"
(That's how he calls me, btw, "legend". He seems surprisingly impressed that someone can write code)
This morning, he was looking kind of pale and uncertain, as he tried to finally start programming. So I spent about an hour walking him through everything I did and how everything is tied together.
Me: There you go. I suggest you try writing something super simple for starters. Eg. just add a little top menu to this App component. Build up some confidence, then move on towards redux and the lower level parts.
Bore: Menu? Pfff. That's too simple. Give me something more meaty.
.... dude.
He also asked me what I think about his expertise. He is very much aware about his inadequacies.
I told him I have no idea, AS I HAVE YET TO SEE HIM CODE.
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
(That's how he calls me, btw, "legend". He seems surprisingly impressed that someone can write code)
Eh, might just not be from your area, it's a pretty common term in eastern Moonlandia AFAIK, maybe he hails from somewhere near there.
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(That's how he calls me, btw, "legend". He seems surprisingly impressed that someone can write code)
Eh, might just not be from your area, it's a pretty common term in eastern Moonlandia AFAIK, maybe he hails from somewhere near there.
It's reasonably common slang here too, but in this case, he's definitely also sucking up big time. It's annoying. I don't need an ego boost, I know I'm awesome :)
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@cartman82 Fair enough.
Hey, maybe you can get him to buy us all some popcorn to go with the thread, tell him it would mean the world to you
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@cartman82 Gone yet?
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@cartman82 Gone yet?
Surprisingly, he seems to be doing fine.
I mean, he's still not super competent or detail oriented, he often stinks of sweat and annoys me whenever he opens his mouth.
But he got into the technologies we picked and is able to work independently on the frontend without bothering me all the time. And he seems to be genuinely trying to do a good job.
I've seen much worse.
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
he got into the technologies we picked and is able to work independently on the frontend without bothering me all the time. And he seems to be genuinely trying to do a good job.
BUT CAN HE SORT FRUIT?
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he got into the technologies we picked and is able to work independently on the frontend without bothering me all the time. And he seems to be genuinely trying to do a good job.
BUT CAN HE SORT FRUIT?
I never checked, but I actually suspect that he could.
I think he was just a bit rusty and intimidated with the JS ecosystem when he first came in. He needed a little push to get into the swing of things.
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@cartman82 Well, the JS ecosystem is a precipitous stack of mostly rotting White Castle sliders with the occasional full-course-meal hiding in it.
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
He needed a little push to get into the swing of things.
Fair enough, everyone on a swing needs a bit of a push now and then.
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@cartman82 Well, the JS ecosystem is a precipitous stack of mostly rotting White Castle sliders with the occasional full-course-meal hiding in it.
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@masonwheeler Is the smaller book blank?
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@hardwaregeek Does "this page intentionally left blank" count?
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
I never checked, but I actually suspect that he could.
It's cute that you merely suspect he could sort fruit, a task which literally every developer should be able to do (except maybe in really obscure languages where sorting fruit is somehow hard).
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@shoreline said in Bore:
@cartman82 said in Bore:
I never checked, but I actually suspect that he could.
It's cute that you merely suspect he could sort fruit, a task which literally every developer should be able to do (except maybe in really obscure languages where sorting fruit is somehow hard).
Well, experience has proven otherwise. These days, I'm happy with what I can get.
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
I'm happy with what I can get.
so a random fruit instead of a sorted fruit?
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
I'm happy with what I can get.
so a random fruit instead of a sorted fruit?
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@cartman82 said in Bore:
I'm happy with what I can get.
so a random fruit instead of a sorted fruit?
E_FRUIT_NOT_FOUND
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@homobalkanus said in Bore:
@cartman82 said in Bore:
I'm happy with what I can get.
so a random fruit instead of a sorted fruit?
E_FRUIT_NOT_FOUND
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.
So yes, eggplant fruit is... well, a fruit. If you want to say it's a vegetable:
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal. The original term is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds.
It's not a botanical term, and it includes fruits of certain plants, though distinction is rather arbitrary (we usually call most non-sweet fruits vegetables, with exceptions of course).
And now that I managed to bore (
) everyone in the thread, I'm out!
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@onyx In cooking, a fruit is anything you can cook into jelly.
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@onyx In cooking, a fruit is anything you can cook into jelly.
Filed under: Jam? Jelly? Let's call the whole thing off!
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@onyx In cooking, a fruit is anything you can cook into jelly.
So, potatoes?
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@onyx In cooking, a fruit is anything you can cook into jelly.
So, potatoes?
Jellies potatoes?!?!???
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