• Rob (unregistered)

    I would have started looking for a new job after the desktop rant, not wait for mop-duty.

  • (nodebb)

    The other question that really stuck out in his mind was the standard, "Have you ever had to deal with a difficult personality in the workplace? How did you deal with it?"

    Ah yes, been there, done that. I have been asked that question, and I asked it myself later on. Concerning the same person: the "lead" "developer".

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    Not wasting time but doing menial chores? That's ... odd.

  • L (unregistered)

    when the "lead" in "lead developer" is tetraethyl

  • (nodebb)

    Holy cow! I wonder how the whole dev department hasn't quit already, making sure they mention who caused them to resign. Unless the boss is a complete ass, he would immediately fire Frank and rehire the devs.

  • 516052 (unregistered)

    Jesus Christ! And I am old enough to be among those that do in fact NOT invoke his name lightly.

    This level of disrespect toward skilled employees is something no person with any self respect should ever put up with. I would have to be truly desperate, and by that mean literally starving and unemployable before I would allow my self to put up with working in an office with someone like that.

    I am always baffled why people do it. Like, I get wanting to eat. But if my choice was between a job like this or flipping burgers for half the money I'd go flip burgers.

    And the saddest part is that people don't just tolerate it but become so browbeaten that they accept it as normal. I would rather starve.

  • Brian (unregistered) in reply to tom103
    Unless the boss is a complete ass, he would immediately fire Frank and rehire the devs.

    My wife worked in a place like that once. Her team had probably the highest turnover rate in the company (including at least one death, or maybe a serious heart attack, I don't remember exactly). But the manager was best buds with the department head, so of course she was in no way responsible for the poor performance of the team... :eyeroll:

  • Hmmmm (unregistered)

    Most meetings (and meeting breaks) are O(n*m) (n=number of employees, m=number of topics), which is a fairly tragic complexity...

    On the bright side, it's really nice that Frank hired his elderly mother (or was it the other way around?)

  • byte (unregistered)

    In my head, I changed the ending to BOFH-style, where Frank is now an issue for the cleaning crew.

  • (nodebb)

    𝐼𝑓 π‘¦π‘œπ‘’ π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘˜ π‘Žπ‘π‘œπ‘’π‘‘ 𝑖𝑑, π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π·π‘’π‘π‘™π‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘› π‘œπ‘“ 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 π‘π‘Žπ‘ π‘–π‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘¦ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘ π‘Žπ‘šπ‘’ π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘” π‘Žπ‘  π‘žπ‘’π‘–π‘‘π‘‘π‘–π‘›π‘” π‘€π‘–π‘‘β„Žπ‘œπ‘’π‘‘ π‘›π‘œπ‘‘π‘–π‘π‘’.

    The Declaration of Independence was the notice.

  • Malte (unregistered)

    The declaration of Independence is quitting with notice. I'm sure the british Crown noticed it and maybe even read through all of it.

  • (nodebb)

    The worst dev team boss is one who doesn't have a dev skillset. Time has to be filled somehow. In our case he made frequent pronouncements and promptly forgot them. One-on-one was via email despite everyone w/in a 2 - 15 second walk. A dev process with 6 decision points, then each decision taking a month. The icing on the cake: He looked like Gallagher the 80's comedian and he talked just. like. Lumbergh.

  • Neveranull (unregistered)

    I should have quit the day I met my new boss, but I waited until the second time he pushed me out of my chair and started changing the code I was writing.

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