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You found a 1× engineer; the worst engineer that can keep the job.

• steveBK123 2y ago
  Over time we actually found him to be more of a -2x engineer, but thats another story edit: reminded me of the old joke A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs, get a dozen.” The programmer returns home with 12 gallons of milk and says, “They had eggs.”
  • monsieurbanana 2y ago
    The fool, he should have gotten 13 gallons of milk
  • stavros 2y ago
    Ah, the "and" ruins that joke for me by signifying a separate clause. I think the original is: > A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen.”
  • chrismorgan 2y ago
    > more of a -2x engineer You just needed to find another one like him, and bam, +4×. (It is actually conceivable that two bad engineers could mostly cancel each other out, if they can occupy each other enough, but it’s not the most likely outcome.)
  • glxxyz 2y ago
    'Antiwork' - every hour they work uses up more than an hour of other engineers' time in questions, meetings, and later fixes.
    • steveBK123 2y ago
      Correct - they do bad work quickly which requires 2x the time on repairs