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My Many Girlfriends
- IceWreck 5y agoIs this real ?
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoAlmost certainly not.
- FartyMcFarter 5y agoI can believe it. There are much weirder people out there.
- db48x 5y agoAnd the bit at the end where someone calls up for a reference and ends up sending a fruit basket has the ring of truth.
- landtuna 5y agoI don't think someone in the 90s would describe someone else's tea as smelling like kombucha.
- bencollier49 5y agoParaphrased in the present, I guess.
- meragrin_ 5y agoHow about someone in 2022 describing something taking place in the 90s? That part was not in the dialog taking place in the 90s but the author describing the scene.
- sophacles 5y agoWhy not? It was a niche hippie/health-nut thing back then, but it was around. Here's a random article i found from forbes that goes into it a bit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2017/02/01/kombucha-101-demystifying-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-fermented-tea-drink/?sh=52ba4a944ae2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2017/02/01/ko...
- oriolid 5y agoAccording to my Ukrainian co-worker, back in 90s Kombucha was known as a horrible traditional delicacy similar to surströmming, hákarl or casu marzu. And yes, I have had a co-worker who drank weird smelly herbal teas and was obsessed with vitamins among other things. And a different one who had a mug that was covered with thick black crust inside and who insisted that it must never be washed.
- NikolaNovak 5y agoGiven Initrode reference at the end I'd guess not. It's more of a BOFH vibe I think
- sophacles 5y agoDailyWTF convention is to replace actual company names with Innitech and Initrode.
- probably_wrong 5y agoBased on my experience reading TheDailyWTF for a couple years now: I bet there was indeed a guy at a company who spoke about himself in the 3rd person, took off the lighting bulbs from his office (Masters of Doom talks about something similar, after all), used female names for his variables, and was fired. I would also bet that the "thanks for the tip" part is also true. I'm on the fence about the tea. Everything else is probably poetic license to help the story flow better.
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- kazinator 5y ago> Sten did not get hired at Initrode. This superfluous remark must be for the readers who think the gift basket from Initrode was because Sten was hired, and demonstrated gift-basket-level excellence in just a few weeks.
- Flankk 5y agoIsn't eccentric supposed to mean slightly strange? This just sounds mentally ill. Maybe he was trying to improve job security through intentional obfuscation. Kind of sad, either way.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoAgreed. I feel sorry for Sten, not the company or the other employees. That said, even as shortly back in the 90s, mental illness was still ridiculed and something to be ashamed of, at least we've made progress in that area these days.
- mutatio 5y agoAssuming the story is real, why forgo sympathy for the other employees?
- jrootabega 5y agoThe daily wtf has been significantly fictional for decades
- dhoe 5y agoI have worked with someone who used female names for temp variables in the early 2000s. He also kinda saved us by substituting all icons with over the top cute looking ones the night before the demo, which was super efficient at distracting the audience from how disfunctional the application was.
- bemmu 5y agoSame, I was told my predecessor used his girlfriend’s name for temp variables.
- SlowAndCalm 5y agoI use a random group of words as variable, etc. names when I can't think of them fast enough to stay in the flow. I find it easy to remember what each one does, and can go back and rename them to more reasonable things before doing a commit. It only takes missing one inexplicably named 'deodorant' variable, for me to want to sink into the depths of the Earth at the thought of people thinking I'm one of these eccentrics.
- ricc 5y agoThis gave me a much-needed laugh. Thanks for this! :-D
- hirundo 5y agoDon't anthropomorphize your variables, they hate that. And it makes it awkward when you have to ruthlessly eliminate them.
- usgroup 5y agoAt least he wasn't "objectifying" them. (for the sensitive, this is a joke about class naming convention, which didn't seem subject to female variable names in the article).
- starfallg 5y agoThey're not fat, just overloaded!
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- chrisseaton 5y agoBecause it’s downvoted? Probably just people generally downvoting jokes.
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- speed_spread 5y agoFor all its political correctness, Rust still has Fat Pointers. Which might be put to good use when doing Response Body Shaming?
- usually 5y agoAnd the fat arrow: "=>" https://play.rust-lang.org/?code=fn%20main()%20%7B%0Amatch%20()%20%7B_%20-%3E%20()%7D%0A%7D https://play.rust-lang.org/?code=fn%20main()%20%7B%0Amatch%2...
- gfykvfyxgc 5y agoIn the early days of IT there was the concept that the best developers were strange, hard to get along with prima Donna’s.
- watwut 5y agoYup. And that concept is still alive. If you act uncomfortably, there are people will assume it means you are better. (Had collegues express pretty much that believe a two years ago.) It led to being strange cool in the "in-group" which led to perfectly socially aware people acting strange where it would them cool points. I am not complaining here, I enjoyed it back then. Only later I realized what went on and how much of the "strage" were actually "very high social skill being used".
- propogandist 5y agothe IT Crowd captures it pretty well, for a British comedy series
- lordnacho 5y agoCommon trope in certain walks of life. The primadonna idea itself is from performing arts (ballet?), and there are loads of stories about musicians requiring special attention. Sports as well, lots of stories about stars with odd routines or demanding behaviour. The thing that links them is you have someone who ostensibly creates so much value everyone else is supposed to live with their demands. It can be minor things. We had a trader in an firm I worked for who made the company hire a car to take him to work each morning. Certainly not a strange thing but it wasn't exactly something the couldn't pay for himself, nor a benefit that everyone enjoyed.
- bradleyjg 5y ago> The primadonna idea itself is from performing arts (ballet?) Opera
- Jenk 5y agoYep, literally translates as the first lady, but means the leading lady. They were the headliners that brought the crowds. If a show lost the primadonna, it lost the audience (and ticket sales) so they had much more bargaining power than the other performers.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoThe slightly female-obsessive nature described in the piece would suggest the character does not have "many girlfriends".
- fxtentacle 5y agoI could imagine that this presentation sells better. Someone who is highly talented and good with women might appear threatening to his manager. Like this, there's no challenge to the manager's higher social position.
- phkahler 5y ago
- jacobolus 5y agoLonely, socially awkward programmer guy who works in a darkened broom closet and writes unmaintainable, cringeworthy, slightly creepy code is not remotely comparable to pimps selling child prostitutes to the world’s social/financial elite. Conflating pathetic with evil is a bad habit.
- xg15 5y agoSten finds this female to be an interesting specimen. Sten will add it to his collection.
- chrismorgan 5y ago> Sten's watched beeped on the hour I have a bone to pick with whoever came up with this and thought it would be a good idea.
- Symbiote 5y agoChurch bells chime on the hour for most of the day.
- detritus 5y agoThe place I recently stayed at in Umbria, Italy for New Year helpfully tolled bells 1-to-4 times each 15 minutes to describe whereabouts in the hour we were. All night long.
- dEnigma 5y agoPretty common for church bells in Austria too. 1-4 times for 15 min intervals, and then on the full hour, after the four chimes, the number of the hour.
- philovivero 5y agoWhen would it chime 4 times?
- dEnigma 5y agoSorry, I didn't make this quite clear. At the full hour it first chimes four times, to denote that it's a full hour, and then, after a small pause, the number of the hour.
- bipson 5y agoBut not during the night...
- dEnigma 5y ago
- usgroup 5y agoI've never met anyone that speaks about themselves exclusively in third person in any walk of life. It seems like something that could get semantically challenging fairly quickly. I also wonder if eccentricities are independently distributed. Is a person hosting one eccentricity more likely to acquire another? I wouldn't have thought so personally. To wit, finding a guy that seems to have at least 4 -- at least by my count -- strikes me as very likely fictional.
- fegu 5y agoI do have a friend who often replaces "I" with "the <lastname>". Peculiar thing. Sometimes slightly cool, most often just annoying.
- justinclift 5y agoDitto here. A friend's girlfriend uses her first name instead of "I" in every instance. She's even got the friend to start doing it for her too. eg firstname instead of "you" No major concerns about it though, it doesn't negatively affect things.
- moron4hire 5y agoIs her name Ai?
- xg15 5y agoI'm pretty sure if you use "the" to refer to yourself, you're also obligated by law to wear shades at all times, do finger guns at least once a day and use the term "rad" at least once every hour.
- nicklaf 5y agoIs your friend a TNG [0] fan? :-P [0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Who_Watches_The_Watchers_(episode) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Who_Watches_The_Watcher...
- bipson 5y ago
- headmelted 5y agoI’m picturing Richmond from The IT Crowd and it really makes me wonder what happened to Sten. Sten has been through the dotcom bust. And 2008. And the crypto mess. And a pandemic. Sten’s blog would be mesmerizing.
- prox 5y agoSince Sten speaks in third, are you Sten? :)
- headmelted 5y agoheadmelted tried to think of how headmelted would even phrase an answer to this question either way and quickly got very confused.
- throwaway946513 5y ago"headmelted injured itself in its confusion" -3 hp.
- JasonFruit 5y agoheadmelted headmelted headmelted
- kerneloftruth 5y agoHeadmelted's head melted.
- tasha0663 5y agoI've cracked the code: (S)a(T)osh[E] (N)akamoto But this answer just leads to more questions.
- cable2600 5y agoWhat if he died and nobody knows it. Half the Bitcoins are in his wallet and nobody can get them out without the password, named after several of his girlfriends no doubt.
- almogbaku 5y agoThis is the weirdest code documentation I have ever read.
- civilized 5y agoAnybody catch the reference to "Initrode"?
- de_Selby 5y agoAll company names in daily wtf are Initech and Initrode
- globular-toast 5y agoYes. My first thought was "Initrode is real?!" It's not real. Whether that means the whole story is not real or not, I don't know. I know Initrode from Office Space.
- oriolid 5y agoDailyWTF changes every company name to Initrode to protect the guilty. A related story: a friend of mine submitted a story to DailyWTF, with a lot of detail removed so that the company or developers in question could not be identified. The story was published, the editors made up a lot of details to give the story some color and some of them just happened to exactly what happened in real life.
- mysterydip 5y agoThe conclusion of him being let go for not being able to produce code as rapidly as the rest of the team was not a surprise given his naming conventions.
- OtomotO 5y agoWe exclusively speak in Pluralis Majestatis of ourselves. It sells way better.
- neysofu 5y agoI've given a lot of thought about this in the past, and I do agree with you but it's not because of Pluralis Maiestatis. From the reader's perspective, the team developing the product that I'm selling is simply a set of people. Whether the cardinality of such set happens to be 1 at this particular time, that's an implementation detail.
- ehnto 5y agoI guess it depends on the particular text and it's purpose, but if you are trying to run a business, using a singular I in marketing text would be weird, perhaps even a little narcissistic.
- TacticalCoder 5y agoThere are places were randoms, but related, names make sense, but not as random variables. Naming machine comes to mind: you may want to group machines on a same LAN with names from one constellation, then machines on another LAN with names from another constellation. Or have a little network cluster which is "neptune" and name your few machines after Neptune's moons. Stuff like that. One of the craziest "naming frenzy" though was revealed during the Enron scandal, where they had created countless shell companies to hide their crimes. They'd name the companies using names from the Star Wars universe: "Chewco investment" after Chewbacca, etc. Hundreds of them.
- CGamesPlay 5y agoI prefer to name them using related hotel room numbers. Machines in one lan get numbers from one floor, machines in another get numbers from a different floor. It’s not as romantic but when we trade places for a day you’ll at least be able to make some sense of the network structure, meanwhile I’ll still be trying to read the almanac.
- Intermernet 5y agoGetting "Being John Malkovich" vibes from this comment.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI mean, naming machines is cute on the one hand, but on the other, once you scale up / out, who will remember that Neptune is from finance and the Pleiades is management? Like with microservices, it's probably better to name things for what they do or where they are instead of coming up with aliases, else you have to maintain a translation table. When scaling up - hard- or software - it's better to be clear than clever.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoBest scheme I've seen for a small fleet of development boxes (hardware, not VMs) was naming them after elements. Very easy to determine the IP address on that subnet.
- andrew_ 5y agoAh the glory days, when most of the time all you needed was one interview.
- Freak_NL 5y agoWith the current labour shortages we may have come full circle.
- bradlys 5y agoHave we? There are certainly no shortage of interviews for all the jobs I interviewed for 6 months ago. None have requested anything less than a full day of leetcode interviews.
- csours 5y agoThe Real WTF is the hiring process.
- dmead 5y agoThe current process is nearly as much of a clown show as sten.
- bocytron 5y agoThat's a fictional piece, right? Right??
- geoffeg 5y agoWhile I've never worked with someone who had all those eccentricities at once, I have worked with people who: * Only referred to themselves in the third person. * Apparently thought they lived in the 17th century. * Wrote software at work but intentionally had no computers or electronics at home. * Lived in one of the buildings at work. The 90s were indeed a unique time in the software development industry.
- flerchin 5y agoSeems apocryphal.
- thih9 5y agoI now wish there was a code sample. I searched github with a query that included both "ingrid" and "zaria", but couldn't find any results, at least not in a programming language from the 90s.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoAh don't be too sad, the website in question has years (decades?) worth of dreadful code to wince at :D
- arbuge 5y agoTitle should actually be "His Many Girlfriends"...
- hereforphone 5y agoI don't care that he named his variables after women. What I do care about is that he named very temporary variables longer than a single character. 'n' and 'i' suffice and anything else is just pretentious.
- mellavora 5y agoHuh. The standard where I work is foo bar baz In that order
- hereforphone 5y agoThat would be about the time I stand up and leave the interview
- speed_spread 5y agoWhen you realize the interview never ended. Or that there was no interview and they were just having you work for free for the first hour.
- moffkalast 5y agow h y
- cpwright 5y agoI used to use i, j, and k; but at my last job single letter variables were frowned upon so I started using ii, jj, and kk and now much prefer those for simple loops. Searching for "ii" yields the loop much more reliably and quickly than "i" which is often a partial match to other words.
- hangonhn 5y agoOh that’s clever. Thanks for that tip.
- Majromax 5y agoI developed the same habit after working on numerical code in Matlab. `i` can sometimes be sqrt(-1), but `ii` is always a variable. For greatest disambiguation, it's best practice to write `1i` for the complex number and leave `i` unused.
- TheRealDunkirk 5y agoI clicked to the next most popular story at the site. It talks about how a developer wasn't allowed to use NuGet, and had to write packages you would normally import from it from scratch. At the bottom of the article, there's an ad for a product which wraps NuGet with permissions. 1) What a perfect way to deliver an ad. 2) Is the whole story fake, in order to deliver it? 3) What a perfectly "corporate" product, to further exacerbate developer frustrations in large company environments. Please don't tell my company (Initech) about the existence of this product. I think there are several mid-level managers who would experience actual arousal at the thought of implementing it.
- tshanmu 5y agoSten is most probably on HN - just need him to say Hi :)
- irpapakons 5y agoSten is that you? Hi.
- Sosh101 5y agoAn extreme example, but I do miss those days.
- killertcell 5y ago
- stenvdb 5y agoI am Sten, but not this Sten, although I might start renaming my variables after reading this story..
- aembleton 5y agoBut you talk about yourself in the first person
- kevinmchugh 5y agoThe first world of the comment you replied to is a first person pronoun.
- jvanderbot 5y agoAnd the 9th!
- earedpiece 5y ago
- whalesalad 5y agoPut the lotion in the basket comes to mind.
- jdlyga 5y agoI used to name my variables after my friends, classmates, and food in middle school in the 90s. It was all fun until I was trying to remember what the purpose of hotDog was.
- jpgvm 5y agoCould have been worse, it could have been returning hotDog or notHotDog.
- edmcnulty101 5y agoI need more food data types in my code.
- johnyzee 5y agoI see you Jian Yang.
- raisedbyninjas 5y agoI once worked with a senior dev that stored his notes, snippets, test projects, etc. anything that wasn't committed to the repository in a local file structure. This was years ago before the flood of note apps and cloud storage. The naming convention was just incrementing numbers. There were hundreds of them that he had memorized.
- Adverblessly 5y agoDo you mean something like https://johnnydecimal.com/ https://johnnydecimal.com/ ?
- rkuykendall-com 5y agoAs VERY cool as this is (thanks), I think the parent was referring to something like: 297.txt 298.txt 299.txt 300.txt 301.txt
- 999900000999 5y agoI still didn't like how he sabotaged this guy at his next interview, why do you care if he's not your problem anymore. This is why most companies will only either confirm or deny employment history.
- recursive 5y agoIs it sabotage? If he's being hired to write code, and his code is a problem, I would expect that he shouldn't get the position. He didn't tell Initrode "don't hire". He told them "look at the code". And maybe Initrode doesn't have a problem with the code.
- 999900000999 5y agoIt just seems petty, This dude isn't your problem anymore. How does it benefit you to stop someone else from being able to feed their family.
- recursive 5y agoIt doesn't benefit you. It might benefit them though. The "feeding the family" is speculation.
- 999900000999 5y agoA family can be one person, it doesn't benefit you to prevent someone you had a bad experience with from earning an income. The vibe I get from this article, is the author was personally upset with Sten, and that's why he went out of his way to make Sten's life harder. Not something to brag about.
- recursive 5y agoSten isn't prevented from earning an income. He's potentially less likely to get a job for which he isn't a good fit. Perhaps that means he'll get another one instead? That pays more, so he can eat even more expensive food? I don't think it does much good to speculate about further downstream effects.
- mlang23 5y ago
- henningpeters 5y agoReminds me of a Sten I hired many years ago. He requested (and of course got) an hilariously exotic work setup and spent a ridiculous amount of time on its configuration. Right from the start he expressed his unhappiness with seemingly random office stuff: Every day, sometimes multiple times per day, he would would come to my desk and tell me what was wrong, implying I should fix it right now even though it wasn’t obvious that there was a problem in the first place. He also heavily criticized the code base while the same time wasn’t able to produce anything meaningful. For a couple of weeks we hoped his genius to appear and that we just have to give him more support and time to adjust. Eventually, a group of female coworkers came forward and complained that he would make them feel uneasy. He would stand behind them watching silently what they were doing. I don’t remember whether we gave him feedback for this or room to adapt, we’ve let him go the next day.
- rco8786 5y ago> He also heavily criticized the code base while the same time wasn’t able to produce anything meaningful. This is more a rite of passage for everyone to do at least once in their career rather than an immediate red flag. But yea...
- ryandrake 5y agoKind of sad that he was let go for the one thing he likely had the least ability to control: Other people's feelings. You might have eventually been able to put together training or guide rails to correct his work habits, code review style, and productivity, but how do you coach someone to change someone else's impression of him? EDIT: Hmm..had no idea this of all things would be such a deeply offensive comment. Live and learn. As a manager, how do you tell someone to "stop standing near people and/or looking at people" when they presumably have to work with those people as part of their job? If there's harassment going on, that's definitely something you have to correct and/or terminate for, but did OP's scenario rise to that level?
- aaronbeekay 5y agoHe… doesn’t have the ability to control whether he stands silently behind other people while they work?
- andyjohnson0 5y agoSome years ago I joined a small company, replacing a guy who was their only developer. He was pretty disorganised, and one of the first tasks I gave myself was to get the source code for the company's main product into a revision control system (Visual SourceSafe, I think). This turned out to be far from easy because his idea of versioning was to have multiple copies of the full source tree with the root directory named with a woman's name. Its been a while, but I remember it took me weeks to satisfy myself that I'd identified the correct sources for the builds that were then in production.
- seanw444 5y agoSince I have nothing to add: yikes.
- sumtechguy 5y agoA place I interviewed at 2-3 years ago 'what source control do you use' 'oh sometimes we check things into sourcesafe, but usually just share the folders'. Surprisingly it is a good way to filter companies still!
- skydhash 5y agoLast year, I worked on a PHP application. Getting it to a CVS trimmed down the folder from 3 GB to 100 MB with essential assets. They just dumped things in there and backup the whole server instead.
- 542458 5y agoAt one point I worked on a project where for source control the previous people would just copy/paste all the code in the file into a block comment at the bottom of the file. Some files were three hundred lines of code followed by several thousand lines of block comments containing near-identical code. To be fair, these were non-CS students who had never been taught any different.
- glenneroo 5y ago
- riemannzeta 5y agoA person who refers to themselves in the third-person is called, in English, an illeist. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illeist https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illeist Elmo, Julius Caesar, and Salvador Dali have been identified as illeists. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27322/11-famous-illeists https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27322/11-famous-illeists
- mattmaroon 5y agoAll 3 of them earned it. Especially Elmo.
- User23 5y agoThere is at least one spot in the Gallic Wars where Caesar refers to himself with the first person pronoun. It really caught my attention.
- chrisabrams 5y agoOut of curiosity, is the first person pronoun used in the original translation?
- User23 5y agoI never read the Latin, but that's a good question. Explicitly using pronouns at all is unusual in Latin, so if he did it was almost certainly for effect.
- rmnclmnt 5y agoIn France, the most famous illeist is the actor Alain Delon (still alive): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Delon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Delon It has become a traditional joke in itself for a few generations!
- kazinator 5y ago> A person who refers to themselves in the third-person is called, in English, an illeist. In Japanese, he or she is called バッチリ日本人. (^_^) Dali, BTW? So the literal translation of the original quote would have read something like, "Dali doesn't do drugs; Dali is drugs?"
- ben7799 5y agoWay too many similarities to Office Space here.. someone moving down to the basement, referring to themselves in the 3rd person, and then the company name of Initrode mentioned.
- nash 5y agoInitrode is the name that TDWTF uses for all it's company names.
- mithr 5y agoBrings to mind https://codewithrockstar.com/ https://codewithrockstar.com/ "Rockstar is a computer programming language designed for creating programs that are also hair metal power ballads."
- mikotodomo 5y agoWTF Why would someone do this? Like he's going out of his way to come up with bad, confusing variable names. More and more I think there are a set of programmers who just want to make the code worse.
- whydid 5y agoNot sure if this is a rhetorical question- I've worked with people who have similar quirks, and power-posturing (possibly subconsciously) was only way I could rationalize their behavior. If I create a bespoke mess, and you need to figure it out, then I have power over you.
- mikotodomo 5y agoIt was an honest question. I don't understand it. But wait, are you saying people are doing this deliberately to prevent others from taking their work?
- d23 5y agoThere are unfortunately a lot of career upsides to making things more difficult and complex than they need to be. Making things simple and straightforward is often has neutral career outcomes at best, and if you consider the downstream effects, can actually be negative (oh he did that thing we all thought would be super difficult and look how straightforward it turned out to be; must not be that hard).
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoThe gift basket story reminds me of something that happened a few years ago. I got a call from a friend who's a manager at another company in the local metro area. "HeyLaughingBoy, $CANDIDATE applied for a job here and said that he worked with you at $COMPANY and you actually interviewed him. He listed you as a reference." "Yeah, I remember him pretty well." "So, what can you tell me about him? Good hire?" "Would you like the Official Corporate Reply or my opinion?" "Thanks!! That's all I needed to hear." Moral of the story, boys & girls? Make sure the people you list as references actually have something good to say about you.
- kerneloftruth 5y agoTrue. The etiquette I was taught re: references is to discuss and clear it with them first, both to be sure that they're willing to be a reference, and to confirm that they'll actually say something nice.
- jhallenworld 5y agoIn the late 90s, my cousin (who is a recruiter) asked me where she could find a good programmer. I suggested contacting people who participated in certain USENET newsgroups (I was recruited this way). She was successful at finding someone, but she said they had to help relocate the guy's pet lizard. Also: read Rule 34 by Charles Stross. The weirdest thing about this book is that it's written in 2nd person.
- wkimeria 5y agoThis made me lol! I have a story, names protected to protect the innocent (and guilty). Many moons ago I worked for a company. I was a Senior engineer and we were hiring for a Principal engineer. We had a candidate highly recommended by someone a couple of levels up in the company come in. I was one of the people to interview him. I was a very, very strong NO! (he was incredibly condescending and rude, did not answer any of my questions as he deigned me beneath him). A couple of other engineers were also a strong NO! for similar reasons but he got hired. It is always possible he was a genius but would have been absolutely hell to work with. He showed up in pajama bottoms on the first day of work (not a huge flag, but still). When he was introduced to the rest of the small company at a meeting he stood up, did a sarcastic, dramatic queen wave and then sat down. Everyone was like WTF! He stopped showing for work a few days later. When his boss called him at home he said "He didn't feel like coming in". Eventually got fired for not showing up.
- henriquez 5y agoHahaha - to be fair that is the most honest and best reason he possibly could have given for not coming in. Also a great reason to fire him.
- tastysandwich 5y agoOne of my first jobs was at a company where the dev team was a mix of 40/50/60 year olds. Nearly all had been at the company for 20+ years. When they disagreed, they'd shout profanities & insults like a bunch of children. One day, the CFO walks in to complain about the noise. One of the older devs turns around, and says to the CFO, "I've told you before, go and get some f**ing headphones!" Another dev used to take his cup of coffee into the bathroom, and had a pair of nail clippers at his desk and yes, would use them. One day I walked in with a pair of pants with "M" on the back of them. This 50-something-year-old dev, didn't speak great English, pokes me right on the ass, and says "the girls will love your jeans because they say mmmmmm!" Totally totally inappropriate but I luckily wasn't bothered by it. They were a very interesting bunch and an endless source of amusement. Despite all of this the team was very close-nit and managed to cooperate effectively for 20+ years. "If we seem nutty to you, and if we seem like an oddball to you, just remember one thing: the mighty oak tree was once a nut like me." (Shout out to all the Death Cab fans) I'll always have a bit of a soft spot for the oddballs to be honest. I'm usually one of them!