WTF? Rant...

[nigel99 666]

I run an engineering business and I needed some work done by a contractor who is offsite. It involved developing a small custom piece of linux software to run on a server.

Anyway the guy continually protested that all software "bugs" were non-existent and has spent the last month where I have had to expend significant effort testing his code to be able to isolate the exact bug. He would then log in and fix it - and then DENY that he had made any changes. The f*cking idiot doesn't know quite as much as one of my engineers and although he was falsifying the command history he didn't know enough to do it fully and properly.

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

[popsjumper 2]

From The Donald:

"You're FIRED!"

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[nigel99 666]

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From The Donald:

"You're FIRED!"

Freaking muppet supplied us will all the source code - his parting "act" was to parse the source code and search and replace removing all whitespace and carriage return line feeds.

There are so many things I'd like to do to him -- but anyway on the bright side I know that I will never employ such a freak again (there CAN'T be anyone worse out there)

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

[turtlespeed 226]

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From The Donald:

"You're FIRED!"

Freaking muppet supplied us will all the source code - his parting "act" was to parse the source code and search and replace removing all whitespace and carriage return line feeds.

There are so many things I'd like to do to him -- but anyway on the bright side I know that I will never employ such a freak again (there CAN'T be anyone worse out there)

Oh - OH - YES there can.

Most DEFINATELY YES there can!

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[skyrider 0]

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From The Donald:

"You're FIRED!"

Freaking muppet supplied us will all the source code - his parting "act" was to parse the source code and search and replace removing all whitespace and carriage return line feeds.

There are so many things I'd like to do to him -- but anyway on the bright side I know that I will never employ such a freak again (there CAN'T be anyone worse out there)

You could have hired me, cause I have no clue what the fuck you just said...So, I'd be worse!

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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Freaking muppet supplied us will all the source code - his parting "act" was to parse the source code and search and replace removing all whitespace and carriage return line feeds.

In the future you'd do well requiring contractors to use your revision control software where they have append-only access and no administrative privileges.

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There are so many things I'd like to do to him -- but anyway on the bright side I know that I will never employ such a freak again (there CAN'T be anyone worse out there)

I've worked with people who couldn't finish what they were working on to the point where you'd be finding bugs.

I've interviewed people who were much worse.

For instance, nine years ago I interviewed a gray-haired guy who I christened "Bob the Pod Person." His resume was good but he knew nothing about anything he'd claimed to have done. For instance I asked him a simple 'C' coding question, got something with syntax resembling no Algol derived language I'd seen, and thought he might be rusty or something "Oh no, I was writing 'C' just last week." If he was less bad I'd have stopped the interview on the spot, although he was so full of crap it was funny and I wanted to figure out if he was screwing with us or he knew that I knew.