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You are absolutely right. The joke is on me. lol Honestly, I din't resent these people, but at the same time it was a situation where I was hoping that the "se

You are absolutely right. The joke is on me. lol Honestly, I din't resent these people, but at the same time it was a situation where I was hoping that the "senior" guy could help us out with the work we had and move our team forward. Needless to say, they didn't last long on our team and we let him go cause he just couldn't keep up. It did, additionally, point out how shitty our process for hiring was as well.

SilasX 3y ago
haha I was in a similar situation myself. A manager asked me for an estimate to do a certain project involving software system S, and I replied back that I wasn't familiar with the deep inner workings I'd need to know, but if he gave me a day to poke around I could see what's possible with it and give a good estimate. He replied, "nah, don't bother, I'll just hire someone who's already an expert at it." Fast forward three weeks, we had the new hire intended for this role. I went over to introduce myself to him. At this point, I wasn't upset, I figured that was a reasonable judgment call that could have gone either way, and was actually looking forward to learning from someone who was familiar with it. So after introductions, I said, "I'm glad we'll have you around, I hope I can learn from you about S," and he was like, "Oh, S? Man, I haven't used that in ages, I'd need at least a few days to get familiar with it." Facepalm. I guess I should have just lied. Even with my help, I don't think he ever got to where I was on S.