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Godwin's Lawyer tells us: "I once worked with a lad who believed 'Frankenstein' was based on a true story, and that the book was written by Shirley Bassey." Tell us about your workplace dopes.

(, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:34)
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Cock.
Up until the end of last year we had the most frustrating person I have ever worked with in our office. The sad fact is that on the face of it he's actually quite a good programmer, but he is also the most idol idle, know-it-all-but-has-no-clue, needs his hand held at all times, to be praised at the vaguest gust of doing his job - etc.

Fundamentally I think this page from his personal company site sums him up: www.cyberrealities.co.uk/ground-rules/
That's right, a rant to prospective clients about how he (or should that be "they") are always right. The good stuff, by which I mean the well written stuff (not by me - I don't really "do" words) on his site he stole from our company site. He also was hosting his shitty site on our servers - one which he took six weeks to build and used standard hard drives rather than the commercial ones (again forgive me as I'm not hugely hardware literate either!)... and this is why I have few qualms about posting his site up here.

He bemoaned doing any work that he was relatively well paid to do, always wanted to build everything from the ground up (because obviously no code library could compete with his superior intellect), carried a picture of his pig wife and insisted on incessantly telling you in great detail about every-fucking-mundane-thing they did including taking Junction 4 off the M4, or was it 4a?

But worst of all insisted on calling B3TA "bet-ta" no matter how many times I pointed the fat Gorg-like* shit to FAQ!!!!!11


* That'd be a Fraggle Rock Gorg
(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 1:53, 6 replies)
He misspelled
'eke' as well.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 6:06, closed)
you beat me to it.
unless he has mice involved in his services, of course.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 7:06, closed)

well, you try designing a site without one
(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:24, closed)
hahahahaha!

(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:25, closed)

I was getting some great mental images there of someone sitting in front of a computer screen and just going "Eek!" at it for a while. Lovely.
(, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 9:53, closed)
Idle
I had to re-read that idol a few times: thought he was being worshipped! :)
(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 8:59, closed)
ha, yes... you're right (he clearly was not idolised by me)!

(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:22, closed)
It's pronounced see-three-pee-oh, you doofus.

(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:11, closed)

i worked with a similar bloke, only throw in christian fundamentalist into the equation. funny enough not long after i left that job, he was given 90 days to find another job in the company or piss off. word has it he saw it as an oppotunity to stop his crappy attempts at coding and become a priest - a man who was regularly disciplined for making leud and old fashioned sexist comments.

Clicky for you sir, the guys website is bollocks, and badly spelled bollocks at that. In a word - twunt!
(, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:37, closed)
Christ.
I couldn't read the first paragraph of the page without being genuinely confused due to the lack of punctuation.
(, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 13:20, closed)

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