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TRWTF is that Lucio was providing free consulting to this company because Fabio was abusing the friendship.
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A uniform ??? Sounds like a good reason to leave right there.(1) But then again maybe Fabio was having pangs of conscience about lying to get a job.
(1) The last time I wore a uniform for a job (with the company logo, no less) was when I worked in a Burger King one summer when I was a student.
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My company did some work for Honda at their UK plant. Everybody there wore the same Honda overalls from the assembly line staff right up to the UK CEO.
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Yeah, it was a WTF from the moment that Fabio asked Lucio to attend the interview. I'm not sure that it wouldn't be counted as fraud in my country. If you know you can't do the job, why apply for it?
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It's Italy. Italians love uniforms.
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"The person who'd written this didn't seem to know that arrays could contain more than 2 items" When I was in college the professor for one of the 200-level classes gave a quiz on the first day to get an idea of everyone's current knowledge/abilities. One of his favorite questions (that would show up year after year) was, "Arrays can only hold 3 items because we live in a three dimensional world. (T/F)" He said there were always a few students every year that would get that incorrect.
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I see some of you have little experience working in small companies who're not themselves in the IT business.
Hiring folks who are asked to be able to do everything at every scale is commonplace. With the de facto expectation on both sides that there will be gaps in the middle of the worker's range and outright shortfalls at one or the other end. Which will either be made up for by other worker's strengths, or some half-assed learning-by-doing, or simply done without.
Businesses that cannot afford enough variety of fully-skilled help for all their roles hire partly skilled help and stretch to make do. Being one of those partly skilled folks can be both a viable career choice, and a way to grow yourself (often badly) into a larger role.
Fabio was going out on a limb with Lucio's help. Whether Lucio was going to end up a permanent wheelchair for Fabio or a temporary crutch remains to be seen. The other TBD is how long Fabio chooses to stay there given the evident WTFery he's being asked to work with. Whether he's competent to work with it is almost immaterial; evidently the last person wasn't either, and we have no idea how many years that person did so "successfully".
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"The person who'd written this didn't seem to know that arrays could contain more than 2 items" Does this mean that writing the application so that additional languages can be easily added by appending to the array was poor form, or that only supporting 2 languages is poor form?
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"One could only hope the company never acquired customers who spoke something other than English or Italian. " Not sure why Italian, but all it'd take, regardless of the number of ifs, to support other languages would be to change the implementation of get_template_part(). (Or, if it's a builtin, overriding that function.)
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I was surprised that the "temporary" install wasn't the WTF punchline here. Lucio seems to be doing an awful lot of work for free to prop up a friend who barely knows what he's doing.
Mind you, that friend might do just fine for a while -- if the job is for a kitchen-sink-technical kind of person, then they'll probably be happy with anyone who can eventually get it right, because those kinds of jobs tends not to be well-paid. (The business doesn't deal in tech, and has far less of an idea how much tech people cost.)
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Because the code that selects the templates is checking for English and Italian category names.
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Aside from the TRWTF of this free support to a friend who can't do the job they've applied for, and the inefficient if-elseif's with identical bodies and conditions that could easily have been combined, can someone explain to a (thankfully) non-PHP or Wordpress programmer what the WTF is with the code? What exactly is the vulnerability and the source of the memory leak? Or is the point that Lucio simply give up looking for the big problems after seeing this bit alone (which seems fair)?
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It's more fun to imagine there's a Tyler Durden-type relationship going on.
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I'd love to be given a uniform to wear. It would then be the responsibility of the company to maintain it and to replace it on the occasion that my body shape and that of the uniform diverge, at the company's expense. Extra bonus points if it's a muu-muu. Specially this weather. Although I'd settle for a karate suit or a boiler suit.
Hey, why not a company onesie? With optional animal heads?
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To me, the job spec as described here says they're looking for a Fabio, and Fabio had a touch of imposter syndrome. And helping a friend out with a job that will start to help them climb the career ladder may or may not be above the call of duty, depending on type of friendship etc.
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Why would that be a WTF? That's clearly exactly what he intended to do. Why were they employing Fabio? For the benefits they receive from doing so. Do they know or care that some of those benefits come from Fabio's friend? They're paying Fabio, and getting what they want from him.
Clearly, Lucio is actually helping his friend hold down a job. It's not that uncommon in the IT world for people to start out as just this kind of dogsbody, learning on their employer's time. If that's what's going on, Lucio is being a good friend helping kick-start Fabio's career.
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It depends on some things that were left vague. How many other things was Fabio handling just fine on his own? How much time/effort did it really take Lucio to do the couple things that he did? Maybe the answers were "plenty" and "very little", and it was understood that if Fabio ran into anything really hairy, then he would need to subcontract Lucio (or bail out of the position entirely).
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From direct experience in searchin for a job in Italy: it's not uncommon at all that they require a nuclear engineer with proficiency in every existing software and programming languages, just to sum two-digits numbers in an Excel spreadsheet.
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(sorry for the lost 'g'...)
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It looks like this code was coming from somewhere else and only modified to fit the current use case. Apparently the website had no need for news or calendar. They could have been stripped out better probably.
I think the language specific arrays are a bigger issue though. The functional labels should be in one language independent on display language to the user. Imagine what it would look like with support for 5 or more languages, which is not uncommon in europe
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Prime Mover writes:
Interesting--I wonder in what country you're located? In the U.S., this is definitely not standard for uniforms: it's quite common for employees to be required to buy them and maintain them themselves. When working in a blood bank lab, I even needed to buy my own lab coats (since they are not shared) and I would have needed to buy any new ones. They did launder them, though, as they comprised required PPE and we had to leave them at work. This is legal as long as the money for the required uniform purchase doesn't bring the employee's wages below minimum wage.
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