I believe our boss was pretty desperate to hire another developer asap (I'm not exactly sure why..) and we had known the guy for several months/year prior to of

I believe our boss was pretty desperate to hire another developer asap (I'm not exactly sure why..) and we had known the guy for several months/year prior to offering him the job (so yeah, he sort of got the job as he was close to being a friend). We did interview him though and he was actually a fairly good PHP coder just a bit socially awkward at times (which wasn't an issue). Oh and he was also willing to work on a very low wage (something like £9k p/a) so that was a big bonus for our boss. Thinking back, I'm not that surprised he quit so soon considering he was only on £9k, lol. Thanks for reading the post though by the way :-)