So I onboard this guy on the project. One week in we worked on a task. There was a socket hang-up error. After a lot of debugging, I realized the issue was the value being sent over RPC to the API. Resolved in a huddle with the guy to show him how I debugged and found out.

2 weeks later, the client uses the API elsewhere, and runs into the same error, opens ticket. The new guy picks it up. After spending a day, says he can't find the issue, let alone reproduce it.

I have to jump in.

My guy, we just went through this recently. How much did he accumulate in 2 weeks since we did that, that he can't recall the fix

Meh, I can work a whole day on a project, do remember of course what I've done, but just forget the name of the project that you typed a whole day :P So next day i'm scrolling trough the project list with creative names and thinking "ah, it's so far again..." :P

there was a guy at work who kept asking me for help. one time he asked me to look at some config file and the boss called us both into his office a few seconds after. the boss asks him about the config file, and the guy immediately and reflexively yelps out and says he gave it to me and it's my fault

I'm confused, bossman says it doesn't matter who is to blame or something like that. when we go back to our desks I solve his config issue.

the next day he comes up to me to ask me for help. I tell him, huh, hope you figure it out

6 months later said guy kept being increasingly yelled at by the boss until he got fired... I think I was doing his whole job for him prior to that and literally did not even know it. he seemed to just keep forgetting everything I ever walked him through... so for months I was reteaching him, thinking he was like 80 iq or something... and quite honestly he probably was.

@retoor that just sounds like such a mess. I would be screaming with thousands of lost half-made projects, pulling my hair out. raaghhh

@jestdotty wow wow wow. Who said unfinished? Nearly everything @ molodetz is in a good working state. They're not half baked.

@retoor IF I WORKED LIKE YOU DESCRIBE THEY WOULD BE UNFINISHED FOR MEE

how would I remember that they exist so that I remember to finish them!

@jestdotty well, in the end I always find the project and work on it ;)