I worked with a guy who thought all my code was shite. Now. I'm pretty tolerant. So I did what anyone in my situation would do. I installed a debugger and step

I worked with a guy who thought all my code was shite. Now. I'm pretty tolerant. So I did what anyone in my situation would do. I installed a debugger and stepped through his code until I found some pretty glaring security flaws (escaping POST input should be pretty high on your priority list) and fixed them for him. Quietly. I explained what the problem was and why I fixed it. So I thought we were on the same team... but no. He insisted that I was incompetent. It took me a couple of days to think of something and then to implement it. I took some of his code, renamed a couple of variables and then pretended it was mine and asked him for his opinion. He emailed me back telling me exactly how shit it was and how I was beyond help as a coder. I took this evidence to his manager. The three of us sat down and I showed the code I wrote. My boss explained how it was wrong, the bugs, the mistakes. He went to town. Then I did my pathetic grand reveal. Yeah. It's your code, cut and paste from the codebase. I changed these variable names (HeLovedCamelCase i_prefer_underscores) could you accept that you have a problem with me, not with my code. This is simply a vendetta against me ... respond now please. The look on his face. He didn't work there the next day. Although there was a big hole in the wall where his fist entered and exited. The business didn't exist the next month. Turns out that someone who would employ someone like that isn't the best person to run a business. Life is full of surprises. Or lessons. Or something. If you haven't watched the detectorists. You should. It's the most beautiful nerdy show about something that isn't coding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgN7z0SD8v8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgN7z0SD8v8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWv6UphTWM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWv6UphTWM