Do you want me to beg you?, HA!
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 @ 8:49 am by DarK SouLYesterday I was on messenger working on some assigment and suddenly one of my co-workers asked me if anyone missed him. He asked that because he did not go to work. Then I replied with a dry, “No, everything was peaceful”. And then he asked, “What would happen if I won’t ever go back to work?”
Ok, I will make a stop here to explain a little. This guy was the person responsible to create most of the programs that runs today on the company and he has been threatening to quit for some time now, well, actually he is always whining about it. He has a high esteem of himself because he knows “everything” about the programs and the inner workings of the databases and such, or so he thinks. In reality he is a bad and lazy coder that had the luck of getting a job. I have always asked him why the hell he use GOTO’s for everything instead of using them just for error checking, his response, “Its easier that way”, to what I replied, “easier?, dude!, that is not the right way to program, you have to follow some guidelines…”, and he replied, “How should I know, I am not a programmer!”, and my response, “YEAH, I even my 9 year old nephew can tell that!”. He got mad and stormed out of the office and I just keep on fixing his lazy code. That was some months ago.
Now to his question.
“What would happen if I won’t ever go back to work?”
When he asked me that I was angry and stressful because I was finishing a final project for my class that is due today, and believe me, I get pretty bitchy when I am angry, you can ask him. My response. “Dude, EVERYONE is REPLACEABLE, there might be chaos for three or four weeks, but that’s it so get off your cloud.” Then he said that he didn’t knew how to react to that, he didn’t knew if he should feel angry or relieved and then signed off messenger.
What the fuck does he want me to say? Does he wanted me to beg him to stay?, pfffttt!!!, in fact, your departure from this company might make things better for me, my work load will increase, yes, but with that my income might increase too because there is no way that I am going to do your job without having your salary! Either way, I might leave this company in the up-coming months, I want a job closer to my home.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:42 am
Oh so THAT was the guy that programs as if he’s using BASIC (circa 1989?)
What a loser. He’s just teasing to get attention before he leaves, maybe he wants a raise or something.
I would have loved to see his face when he read that answer of yours.
Anyway you put him right in his place
December 13th, 2005 at 11:20 pm
He is very angry at the company from what I read. Also, his ego skyrocketed very high because of his anger by thinking he is indispensable. I dont know if he has a valid reason or not for his anger but he needs a reality check soon or he is going to crash.
Anyways… little trivia about BASIC from this link :
” BASIC (standing for Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was written (invented) in 1963, at Dartmouth College, by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates. BASIC has been one of the most commonly used computer programming languages, a simple computer language considered an easy step for students to learn before more powerful languages such as FORTRAN.
BASIC’s popularity was spread by both Paul Allen and William Gates, in 1975. Gates and Allen (both Microsoft founding fathers) wrote a version of BASIC for the Altair personal computer. It was the first product Microsoft sold. Later Gates and Microsoft wrote versions of BASIC for the Apple computer, and IBM’s DOS which Gates provided came with its’ version of BASIC.”
December 13th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
That was the first thing Bill stole and sold it as if he made it!!!!
December 14th, 2005 at 12:03 pm
Holy crap. I’ve opened a geeky Pandora’s Box. :p
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