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cuervo
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Guy I work with: Hey can I borrow you for a minute

Me: sure. What do you need?

Him: so this is a project me an the other dev worked on

Me thinking: Well I know he did it all and sent you the project so don't tell me you worked on it

Him: so we use it to do this and this and send an email to this new account I made because (2 minute explanation)

Me thinking: I don't care. Just tell me what your issue is! I already know what it is and does from what you told me the last time when you showed me. Which took an hour of my time.

Him: so he sent me this code which is called <Descriptive name> and in the method we have variables call <descriptive name> and it returns a <variable name>

Me thinking: You mother fucker! I don't give a shit what your method is named, what it the variable names are, and you don't need to read through every line of code to me! Just from the descriptive name you just said I know what it does! What the fuck is your issue!?

Him: we also have these other methods. This one is called <Descriptive name> which does...

Me: are you fucking seriously going to read me your code line by line and tell me what you named your variables AGAIN!?

Him: and we named this one <descriptive name>

Me: you mother fucker...

Him: and it calls this stored procedure. (Literally opens the stored procedure and shows me) and it is called...which has parameters called... And it is a select query that inserts

45 minutes later after he finishes explaining all 3 pages of his code and his 5 stored procedures that the other dev wrote...

Him: So anyway, back to this method. I need to know where to put this method. The other dev said to put it in this file, but where do you think I should put it in here? Should I place it after this last one or before it?

Me thinking: You fucking wasted my fucking time just to ask where to place your mother fucking method that the other dev sent to you in a project with only 3 files, all less than 500 lines of code with comments and regions that actually tell you what you should put there and 5 small stored procedures that were not even relevant to your issue! Why the fuck did you need to treat me as a rubber ducky which would fly away if you did have one because you didn't have an issue, you just didn't know where to put your fucking code! FUCK YOUR METHOD!

Me: Where ever you want

Him: Well I think it won't work if I placed it before this method.

I walked away after that. What a waste of time and an insult to my skills and really unchallenging. He's been coding for years and still can't understand anything code related. I'm tired if helping him. Every time he needs something he always has to read through and explain his shit just to ask me things like this. One time he asked me what to name his variable and another his project. More recently he asked why he couldn't get his project he found online to work. The error clearly stated he needed to use c# 7. His initial solution was to change his sql connection string. 😑

He should just go back to setting up computers and fixing printers. At least then he would never be in the office to bug me or the other dev with things like this.

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  • 14
    Just tell him that you know what this is all about and that he should get to the point. Is it that hard? You had 45m to do this.
  • 4
    @Kimmax I had tried that before in a different project he was with on when he asked for something so trivial. It actually would take him longer to tell me his issue because he would always start back where I interrupted him after. He would start saying his issue but then he would pivoit back to his explanations. I find the wait time is "shorter" if I just wait until he finishes

    He's an old man and he tends to forget things. I've had the same schedule for the last three years and he always asks me when I would be in. He sits next to me...
  • 4
    @cuervo you should buy a set of pool balls for a quality pocket pool session for the next time he asks something.
  • 3
    The obvious solution is to get him a rubber duck so you can stop being used as one 🙃
  • 1
    @Shodan if the ducky could tell him where to put the code I definitely would
  • 1
    I. Can't. Stand. This type of people.
    If I were you, I'd just shut him up and ask him to get to the point, if still refuses I go back to my desk put back those earphones and turn music out loud so I don't hear him, nor anyone else.
    This type of shit frustrate me + waste time and I will not tolerate even for a second ...
  • 1
    Headphones and pretend you dont hear him :)
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