Guy who create unused Classes VS Guy who doesn't know normalisation or basic OOP
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Eastern cultures value individuals less than Western ones1. Did you really not know about this stuff or are you just pulling my leg?
1 this is a generalization, possibly an over-generalization. If you're Eastern and I offended you, then I wasn't talking about your culture.
Not at all. I totally agree with you. It is what it is. In Asian cultures, individual is less important than the group.
The languages are even high-context languages.High- and low-context cultures
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Of course I know about it, you dumb fuck. Christ.
How dare you call me stupid because I implied you were ignorant! You're off my Christmas card list!
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That seems harsh. Christmas card list withdrawal? Does it get more serious than that?
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See, this is why Americans are superior, we don't just work hard, but we work smart. And we don't give a shit if people are glowering at us. Glower away! It's 6:00. I'm going fucking home.
Clearly you haven't heard any of the horror stories about a large number of software companies around San Francisco. Computer game companies are especially infamous for death marches.
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Computer game companies are especially infamous for death marches.
Right; but at least we describe them using the term "death march" so everybody's aware it's not a good and healthy thing.
Anyway, game companies are always way behind on development methodologies, also. So there's that.
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Does it get more serious than that?
Yeah, I might stop setting up straw men for him to knock down.
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Them's fightin' words.
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Them's fightin' words.
Best way to defeat a bully is to not give them the attention they crave. I like to think the brief period a few days ago where he didn't yell at anyone gave him an ulcer.
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You know that you have to show us the birth cert now. Long form if possible.
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You know that you have to show us the birth cert now.
Can't you do your own homework like any half decent doxer?
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A combination of reading a lot and knowing people who've seen it--in college I had a friend who worked for a Japanese corporation and told me about some of the stuff like "the guy who screws up but they don't fire him and instead just make him a janitor without changing his salary".
They did that at Konami to senrior developers recently didn't they?I can't remember or find the blogger but he had a few antidotes about co-workers that weren't fired for blatant incompetence. They just end up working with a lot of excel sheets. Maybe the dilbert theory about managers isn't made up. Just a spin on Japanese society.
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@DogsB said:
Its not that I'm bad a doxxing its just that I'm lazy. I have a good pun here but I don't know if the name he used in the lottery thread is real and would only be funny if I was 100% sure it was fake.You know that you have to show us the birth cert now.
Can't you do your own homework like any half decent doxer?
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Hint: do a whois.
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Not even autocorrect can save me now. =(
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There's no way I'd work those hours to cover for someone else (management's, presumably) fuck-up.
Just curious. I had 3 weeks before he told me the deadline is tomorrow. I was taking my time to do things properly but the amount of work was enough to be done in three weeks if you hurried a little.
So even if the amount of work was enough for that time, because the manager didn't even mention a set timeline, I can say, well it's yourfault?
Oh also the Power Point slide that had all the specifications was incomplete. I would ask what this page is supposed to do, for example, then he would think about it as if he never thought about it before.
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So even if the amount of work was enough for that time, because the manager didn't even mention a set timeline, I can say, well it's yourfault?
Yes. Timeline management is important, and up to the project manager. It could be argued that you should have asked for a deadline, but in the absence of one being explicitly provided you should be working to make a good product rather than rushing it for some arbitrary date just in case that's when it's due
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I'd rather not. Given the nature of this forum I like to think if you wanted me to know your real name you would tell me. I think trying to piece your identity together is stalkerish and would be a huge violation of your privacy. I like to think that most people feel the same way but I don't like to think about it.
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While I appreciate your concern, the reality is that finding my real name from my handle is no practical problem for anyone who spends any effort doing it ;) And the services out there make it so easy with public information that you wouldn't even need to try.
(And the name I used on the lottery thread is legit.)
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So even if the amount of work was enough for that time, because the manager didn't even mention a set timeline, I can say, well it's yourfault?
Of course you can say it.
I can't guarantee anything about how he'd react to it.
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So even if the amount of work was enough for that time, because the manager didn't even mention a set timeline, I can say, well it's yourfault?
Yes, but not so bluntly. The way I would approach it is to lay out what you can do in the time allotted. And I would be basing this on something more like an 8 hour day. I can see the occasional crunch where you end up working 10-12 hours, but not more than a day or two in a pinch.
For the future, as you have learned, you need to get expectations of estimates out in the open early on. For now, I think you should put together a time line of what you've done. Something like a burn chart, showing your progress over time vs project completion (obviously assuming best case stuff here, which never happens due to bugs or changing / miscommunicated requirements).
Dang, I hope that at least you're getting overtime for this ridiculous amount of work.
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I don't know the exact number of hours, but I can guarantee if you're there at 1:00 AM you've been working backwards for quite some time.
IIRC, 4 hours, and after a lunch break of at least 1 hour you may add 2 more hours of productivity.
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Dang, I hope that at least you're getting overtime for this ridiculous amount of work.
By the sound of it he should be glad they're not asking rent for his desk space.
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How is that even punishment!
You have to clean the shitter after that guy used it. You know who I mean. Ours managed to flood the place the week our janitor was on vacation. We made the maintenance manager clean it up.
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that guy in this office was laid off a few months back, thank God.
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and turn up to work drunk
asandfuck everyday maybe?More-interesting'd that for you.
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People who haven't read any of Fred Brooks' works, maybe. People who haven't heard the expression, "a group of 9 women working together still can't make a baby in one month," maybe.
Unless those 9 women are well funded biologists with a fully stocked lab and a vat of stem cells.
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Jesus, you're lucky. One of ours went back to Asia but the other's gotten worse since they installed the low-flow toilets.
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He was pretty legendary around here when he was here. Had to weigh 350 lb if he weighed an ounce. And about 10% of that apparently went into the toilet each day.
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I don't think the two of ours put together weighed that.
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Ah of course, I'm not going to blame you because he didn't receive my comment very well. Haha
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@FrostCat said:
I was actually being flippant, but I do actually wonder what would happen if you did what @blakeyrat said and just started only coming in for 40 hours a week.
Here is another thing. It is very common in Korea, for a company to hire a guy. And the company will have a contract with a bigger company to send a guy to work at the bigger company. I don't know how the smaller company makes money out of this but it's not difficult to imagine they just take a bit out of the original contract money and give the rest to the guy who will actually work.
I'm that guy.
Why am I even doing this?
I didn't know. The original(small) company didn't tell me. I've only been a bit more than 2 months here now.I realise I should really send my resume again.
It is actually common in East Asia. Like I am currently working in Japan, under the same circumstances too. But my current situation is much better than that in my home country. It is just a matter of perspective, when you come from places that is more shitty than your current place.
