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@Hazarth what do you mean by I am getting cancelled soon?
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If it can make you feel better I’m working with a guy who just made a WordPress shortcode to display images on a post.
(Explaination for people who didn’t use Wordpress: Wordpress already has a super simple way to display images and this guy decided to write a buggy version of it, with much less personalisation cause fuck learning the tool you are using)
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@piratefox lolol
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@Floydimus It's true, you saw right through me :( I was born with a dumb brain
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@thehappyhipster the fact you wrote c[OwO]rkers is even more sus
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@piratefox the OwO was very very unexpected, well done.
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I feel you.
One of our interns is able to turn a very very precise order on a post-it into a random action.
E.g. colleague of mine wrote to go to room X, stock up the keyboards on shelf 1 (they're numbered, SKU / stock keeping unit system... Every shelf has fucking labels on it).
He put the keyboards on another shelf. In another room.
He's not the brightest bulb in da universe but we are working on it. -
@IntrusionCM it's not about the skill, it's about the will.
If they don't will to do anything, any attempt to train them on skill is wasted. -
I’ve noticed it as a trait in interns/inexperienced people in general, that as soon as they see an error they jump straight to asking someone senior without taking 10 seconds to actually *read* the error message.
So many times Ive been asked about an error, only to say “well what is the error telling you”. They always end up answering their own question. -
@Floydimus I'm not entirely sure what's going on with him.
My gut feeling tells me he's not that dumb.
Reading the comment of @LLAMS reminds me that this might be an case of overbearing parents....
Sometimes intern, especially the younger ones, don't follow directions and / or behave like a retarded monkey... Simply for the reason that they don't know how to behave and / or are used to get away with everything.
Funny that I haven't thought of it till now.
Time for momma bear to give some spanking speeches.
(Most of the time it's just about setting clear boundaries and giving them a long speech on perspective / work-/life balance and unscrewing the mindset of "nothing can happen to me my parents will fix it") -
@IntrusionCM It could be a little of that potentially.
I’ve also seen cases where an intern does something stupid and/or risky, and then tries to downplay it like “ah well it could have been worse” or “we should have it documented that we shouldn’t do this”.
Child, you pushed credentials to github. Just admit your error. Don’t try to palm it off onto someone else. We shouldn’t have to write a document that says “don’t put passwords in plaintext on the internet”. -
@LLAMS @IntrusionCM I think what you said is somewhat true.
This intern initially said she was super excited to learn and stuff during her first month and said she would like to be involved in all the meetings so she can shadow learn.
We did mention that meetings could be very early or very late and she was fine with it.
Once she was hired as a full time intern, she started throwing tantrums on how a the meetings are outside worling hours and even dropped a note to my manager saying I am scheduling meetings outside her working hours and she is forced to join.
Bitch doesn't know the concept of time zones and accomodating other team members.
We allowed her to get away with it and all her work has to be done by me now like coordinating between meetings and etc.
I gave her ton of documents to read and ramp up which were all ignored.
To any question or statement of mine, she responds, 'I am confused/I am not following' and then I have spoon feed her. -
@rutee07 yes, I have asked her to go through all the recordings.
She said, that her internship is from 9 to 5 so anything before or after is not her problem.
Moreover, keeps running away to wrap all calls even before 4 her time.
It's my most religious week of the year and I asked her that I'll step out for an hour and then we can resume our review.
She said, by what time I'll be back because she is nearing her EoD. It's fucking 3.30 her time and there are still hours left.
And whatever I say, she sticks to words instead of focusing on the context.
It's not that she is purely dumb, it's that she is lazy to put in efforts to do bare minimum. Let alone be proactive.
Now I'll make sure to make her attend every damn call. -
@DevLivesMatter he’s not being sexist but I don’t know if I’m missing something
Sounds like an honest user tendency to expect a resource to remain around and not keep a local
She got the resource in link form of it can be viewed in the browser that’s kind of the problem of the people who didn’t put it on an smb share FTP site etc and she likely just took the opportunity to skip to the point that she can’t access the file which seems the point -
See the other issue is people being hard on newbies
People make mistakes and sometimes nervousness slows learning
Not the fat ass faggot senior devs at a large billion dollar company that converted ado to linq to sql apparently though
They used the generator syntax lol nice big 3 page long ad hoc queries generated by Microsoft lol
Some people are just inherently retards and there's nothing that can be done about it.
So this intern of mine (not really an intern because she is older than me but new to the field so whatever), is driving me nuts.
There's a file on cloud, she was given to refer during the initial training.
The current link is no longer accessible because whoever the fuck owned it has left or revoked the access.
So I ask her if she has a copy of the file because I want to refer it.
She replies saying:
"Can you share anither link, the current links shows some error"
Holy freaking lord. The keyword in my request was COPY. Why on this sweet sunny earth I'd ask you if the link worked and file was available!!!!
And she couldn't even comprehend that the error is about access. Just says SOME error.
I'll be spending next 2.5 hours reviewing her 1 week of work submissions (which has been ongoing since 3+ weeks now and should have taken 3 hours to finish).
This has got nothing to do with anyone's gender but all about my experience with them.
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