I hired a new developer after careful screening and interviewing many candidates.

First thing he's asking first day on the job
- I have already booked august month for holiday, is that a problem?
- I need to come 2 hours before anyone else in the morning and leave 2 hours before, everyday because I have things to do at home.
- I've seen that espn.com sport news are blocked by the firewall, why is that?
- I've installed bitTorrent on my PC but it's very slow downloading movies

I hope he's good.

first 2 points are fine for me.
other 2 are not ok..

@lazyDev yeah well of course are fine. Just it depress me a little bit that is the first thing asked. But better be clear from the beginning that having problems later

@irene uh, why wasting bandwidth? let use it, after all it works in background and nobody will notice. Probably it's faster here than at his place

like individually, those are not bad things, but together they're raising so many flags...

@irene of course is not valid! I was just putting myself in his head and try to think what could "justify" such a lousy thinking...

@irene :S
( I just discovered this, it seems S stands for sarcastic, I'll use it more)

You simply have to say no to each and every one of those otherwise more people will take advantage of you.

@denialofservice hmm no wait, I'll let people take advantage of me, so I can write a new rant :S

Last two questions are so damn entitled attitude that qualifies to cancel out first two lol

yeah, let me back down a bit, if you're trying to torrent at work, unless there's a very good reason to, you're pretty much one disrespectful sob

real?

@Nan1401124 pretty much. And it's also my fault, because it was my choice to hire him.

I mean I don't find it bad to ask for a news site if you wanna check in on some sports.
Let a man have his vents.

But torrenting movies at work? Gimme a break.
Not only can you get heavily fucked for that because well copyright, but he's also a very interesting torrent node with a super high business upstream.

You guys have no 1 month evaluation period? You should introduce that.
I see flags, dad.

First point - definitely Burning Man

@rEaL-jAsE well in the past, I was also forced to rehire a developer after he screwed up big time, left me in a critical moment, went on a party year spree, and one year later came back crying, please please rehire me.

The board forced me to rehire him.

So, you are basically right from a language point of view, maybe it was a Freudian slip from my side

@irene to save his life. He faked a burnout and drug addiction. He even boasted with me in private how smart he was faking it.
After one year, exactly when its unemployment benefit finished, he miraculously recovered from his addition.

Nothing bad with the first three but the torrenting one is inappropriate.

Did he say it was for downloading movies? I have a torrent client for downloading images etc.

We had some serious issues with people illegally downloading movies at home but with VPN still active. A company can get big fines for that.

In The States, at most companies, it would go like this:

1. Nobody has ever taken a full month off. You’d still be in your 90 days, so you will he fired if you do. There might be some exceptions for parental leave, or sickness, but just no. You’ll get 2 weeks paid vacation and 1 week sick time after you’ve been with the company 90 days and that’s generous.
2. Well, actually flex scheduling isn’t uncommon in this industry. But if your ass isn’t at the job 8 hours, you clearly didn’t do a damn thing.
3. Not your business, so it’s none of your business.
4. See 3.

@jeeper you see...the problem when you hire somebody, to work for you, for your company and you put a lot of enthusiasm in explaining the job and finding the right people, you'll probably get a little depresses if the first day those are the questions asked, rather than "can you explain me better the architecture" or "which technology can I use in the project" and stuff like this