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More like: "We ended up hiring the guy most competent at MS Word at the expense of everything else, because out of the five requirements it was the only one the
by avar 7y ago
More like: "We ended up hiring the guy most competent at MS Word at the expense of everything else, because out of the five requirements it was the only one the managers doing the interview knew anything about".
"Johnson! We're promoting you to head technical flight operations. We can't believe the level of your MS Word skills!"
"Senator, we have no idea why the F-22 inexplicably crashed. That software was designed by the best people we could find!".
- apexalpha 7y agohttps://i.imgur.com/EN0ZkXU.png https://i.imgur.com/EN0ZkXU.png (sorry)
- ddalex 7y agoThis is not Reddit. I know because I am often confused myself.
- mhh__ 7y agoNo, this is HN. It's the same people as Reddit only being pretentious is somehow fine here because we're special?
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoIt's a subset of the more technical people on Reddit. The highest floating poo in the cesspool if you will. ;)
- dangerface 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I searched but couldn't find where it says no jokes.
- mikeruhl 7y agoI liked it... but I'm also a pretentious, intellectual Reddit user like all you fine folk ;)
- hef19898 7y agoIt's funny because it's true. It's also sad because it's true.
- godzillabrennus 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
- cbm-vic-20 7y ago"I see you're trying to shoot down an Irani F-14. Would you like help with that?" [Yes] [No] [Cancel]
- challenger22 7y agoMore like: The guy that designed the flight control surfaces of the F-22 did so using an elaborate Excel spreadsheet powered by 4,000 lines of uncommented VBA filled with aerodynamics equations, and he retired 3 years ago.
- jki275 7y agoThat is so much more likely than you know...
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoThis happens.
- PaulHoule 7y agoI've seen non-professional programmers write the most amazing things in VBA.
- watsocd 7y agoExcel is a great proof-of-concept tool where non-programmers can prove their point. Unfortunately proof-of-concept tools often end up being the end result because .... it works good enough.
- wlesieutre 7y agoThey're also concerned about your PowerPoint skills https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq5zy/the-pentagon-has-the-worst-powerpoint-slides-youve-ever-seen https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq5zy/the-pentagon-has-t...