I had a brief stint in a shit hole during COVID lockdowns. This old dude started and it turned out his wife and the lady in charge were friends. He was one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met. He legit had someone else’s glasses on and didn’t know until the other guy was trying to find his. He said he thought it was weird that he couldn’t see properly. He also seen a few guys with face screens rather than masks and he wanted one. We told him you can get them from health and safety, so off he goes. Comes back and says they’re awful, you can’t see shit out of them. He hadn’t removed the protective covering…
I’ve worked with some apes in my time but I’ve no idea how this guy got so far in life without dying or something
He’s survived through pure dumb luck
My father had his own business and at some point he had an assistant who is one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met. Her husband was an idiot too. At one point she was angry with him because he bought a “real” leather jacket out of some Russian guy’s trunk on some rest stop on the highway.
I traveled for a wedding where they’d rented out a whole place for guests to stay. They were just a little short of rooms and the first night I had to share a room with a friend. Older than me, has ADHD (I think I do too, but he has it in spades), kind of a mess. I woke up in the morning and couldn’t find my glasses. Sure enough, he got up before me, grabbed mine without knowing they weren’t his… Got them back later slightly mangled. Good times.
He wasn’t dumb, but he could be startlingly oblivious about some things.
I work at a call center, and a few years ago I got moved next to this person when we changed management teams. She was a very nice person in general, but for some reason as the day went on her voice would get louder and louder. I was amazed our manager never said anything as it sounded like she was screaming at the people on the phone by the end of our shift. I thought maybe she was just having a bad day or something so I didn’t make a big deal out of it.
She kept getting louder though.
It got so bad that I was eventually pressing my hands over my headphones because she sounded louder than my own customers I needed it listen to. After about a week of this I’d finally had it, and I tapped her on the shoulder and asked if she could please try to keep her volume down since I couldn’t hear my own callers anymore.
She looked at me like I’d just kicked a puppy or something. She made a HUGE show of gathering up all of her possessions and moving all the way to the other end of our row as far from me as she could get, all in complete silence
I think she actually expected me to come find her and apologize lol but since THAT wasn’t about to happen I lived happily ever after never having to listen to her big fat mouth ever again
Accounts payable Nina speaking, JUST a moment!
UH OH! Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the MONDAYS
There was the guy who left milky coffee mugs in his office until they became hairy with mold.
There was the guy who skipped out on work to go play basketball with his buddies.
There was the guy who almost handed a new computer to the dean, with the dean’s name misspelled into an embarrassing word on his login screen.
Oh wait, those were the same guy.
There was a different guy, Bob, who proudly called himself a sexist. He was the tech support manager. More than half of his direct reports were women. He’d double-check their work because they were women. He was usually wrong.
I was running network security for the organization. I’d kicked a machine off the network because it was sending out virus spam. (This was the early 2000s when that was a thing.)
Bob said, the machine is clean, put it back on the network.
I checked, it wasn’t clean.
He said they needed it back on the network now.
I said, have Debbie check it again.
Debbie went and checked it again. There were processes called
fuck.exe
running, trying to initiate port-25 connections to various IP addresses.Yeah, Bob, Debbie is right. Because she actually looked, instead of just trying to play nice with the user.
Machine got wiped and reinstalled. Then it went back on the network.
Machine got wiped and reinstalled. Then it went back on the network.
This read was incredibly satisfying. Thank you.
I once worked with a Puerto Rican. I’m not being racist, he literally couldn’t go more than an hour without reminding someone he was from Puerto Rico. He tried playing it like some kind of race card at least once a day. One time I heard one of my coworkers say loudly from across the room “No, being Puerto Rican has nothing to do with it. I don’t like you because you’re stupid.”
New guy at my job, polish dude. He seemed decent enough, just a bit… odd… but most of us were; after all, we were the kind of people who are willing to work on ships on the wrong side of the world for weeks, sometimes months at a time.
I trained him to do the job I did, so he could run opposite of my shift, with some assistance from the chief tech and various others. The rest of the crew were pretty experienced, so it made it easier when he needed help with the more complex stuff. He did reasonably OK for a newhire. Nothing spectacularly good, but nothing spectacularly bad either.
Until the crewing department told us he had been arrested back home, multiple counts of murder, and we were unlikely to have him onboard again, so we needed to train his replacement.
Turned out he was a serial killer who killed people for their properties. He’s in prison now, and I’m sure you can google the person. I’m not sure what his actual name was, but we called him Winny. Any poles here who happen to remember the case and could link a news article? This happened roughly 10 years ago.
That’s honestly absolutely terrifying. Glad you ended up ok.
I tried to do some googling but there are so many killers out there that I have no idea who it could be.
The polish sailor one. That probably only cuts it down by half.
You worked with Xi Jinping?
LOL!
Holy shit, that’s wild.
I worked with this guy when I was a sysadmin. There were usually three of us on shift. He refused to do anything and would encourage us to ignore tickets as well. He tried to be the manager once the manager was out for the day cuz we worked a swing shift. I already disliked him, but one day the first shifter came back from vacation in Miami. He asked if the first shifter “saw any of them [slur for gay people]”
I’m gay myself and immediately went to HR and he was fired on the spot. For the next couple weeks, if I went out for a smoke, the chill as shit security guard would stand outside with me, cuz this guy definitely had anger problems. He was worried he might try to come back and hurt me.
I used to be a delivery guy at a local pizzeria. One of the other delivery guys was the laziest piece of shit I could imagine.
There was one time they couldn’t find him, his car was there, the delivery car was there, and he wasn’t exactly the type of guy to go take a walk, so they figured he had to be in the store somewhere. Eventually they found him taking a nap in the walk-in, he brought a chair down with him and hid behind a wall of our buckets of cheese and sauce.
Another time they found him taking a nap in the delivery car, engine running, music blasting, seat reclined parked right in front of the store.
We were one of the rare places that had their own delivery cars, and he constantly left trash in them. I was about the only guy who ever bothered to clean them out (to be fair we only ever had about 3-4 delivery guys) There was one night I cleaned it out, he worked the day shift the next day, and I worked the next night, and when I came in the car was filled with trash again. He worked nights at a gas station in the area, so when I stopped that night to get gas, I brought in the bag of trash that I again had cleaned out and called him out for trashing the car again in such a short amount of time. I then took the bag out with me because I’m not an asshole, and threw it away properly. The next time he worked he was telling our coworkers that I dumped the trash on his counter at the gas station, which everyone knew immediately was a crock of shit (but they also all agreed that I totally should have done it.)
I worked with John Doe, who said no woman could tell him what to do, not even his wife. His new boss was a woman who wasn’t having his shit. He quit after a few months.
Right, had this dude who applied for a job at a wireless internet company, the job posting had very specifically mentions that you will be working at Heights and you will be required to pass a 2 day working at heights safety course.
2 rounds of interviews we ask them how they are with heights and so they have an issue with climbing ladders or working on elevated work platforms. Dude says no worries in both rounds of interviews.
First day on the job we do some basic ladder safety to prepare them for the course. Storing a ladder, securing a ladder to the work trucks, securing the ladder to a roof, how to wear a harness.
Say 2 of the job is the First day on the training course and we hear from the training provider that the guy refuses to participate in the practical work and they won’t be accepting him for the second day.
He comes into the office on what was going to be his second day of training and has the stones to say he won’t be working in the field as he is scared of heights.
He didn’t make it till lunchtime that day.
Aw I feel a bit bad for the guy
It definitely sucks, but of all the jobs out there, he had to apply to this one?
Lol idk maybe he was hoping he could force himself to get over it haha
Why? Because he wasted a bunch of people’s time, and he’s a dumbass? Fuck him! I just hope he didn’t procreate.
I had a dude who tried to get me fired by stealing client data and trying to frame it on me. He confessed to someone he was so fucking sure would just take that in stride and not go to management with that.
I also found out that he thought that would work because he thought I was on a final write up for another thing that he tried to pin on me before that. But his whole claim there made no fucking sense and was dismissed within minutes, so nothing ever ever came of it. He just assumed it had worked without trying to confirm anything.
Why do you have a work nemesis?
Do you know what “nemesis” means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.
-Bricktop (Snatch)
Dictionary says nothing about righteous.
one that inflicts retribution or vengeance
a formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent
Never the less, I think it’s appropriate for @DivineJustice to have a nemesis.
Had. I’m on to greener potatoes now. But… I do not fucking know. That guy had nothing but vitriol for almost every coworker and I was not the only person he tried stuff like this on. I was just the time that did him in. I was even consistently nice to the guy, because, you know, I’m an adult. I tried really hard to get along with that guy. In fact when he pulled that shit, I thought we were doing pretty good. The only thing I can think of to explain it is that I beat him out for a promotion.
I was a manager and was hands on training “Gary” day one. Gary continued to get audible dings and read text messages and type while I was talking directly to him. After the 2-3 time I asked if everything was alright and Gary needed to step out to handle something. He said something like, “oh no it’s just a text chain…”. I asked them stop texting but they sort of tried to hide the fact that they continued as I tried to get their attention and they just kept texting. After some more time I stopped after a simple demonstration and asked if they could do what I just did. Gary didn’t do the simple task correctly. I excused myself and walked to office I said to the other people managers /hiring staff, “I don’t think this is going to work out with Gary. It’s day one and he refuses to pay attention.” They expressed that another good coworker and friend had recommended him for the job and I just get through some stuff. Ok maybe Gary was having a bad day.
Later that week I learned Gary didn’t have a car even though transportation was required for the position because you might be working different locations all over town and Gary thought that his friend would be nice and just drive him to whatever job he needed to go to and then drive to their own job somewhere else. It lasted a few days and Gary didn’t arrive at locations we need him at. When we called he said, “I don’t have a ride I can’t work.” I asked if there way to figure out the transportation and he said it would be alright. I think he took a cab a few times but the locations are 20-30 mins away. After multiple no shows or very late arrivals we had to let Gary go.
Now I spoke with Gary several times. I don’t think this was some sort of condition were he didn’t understand the job and what he needed to do. I believe that Gary really thought we were all just living in his world or maybe he had to get out and prove he got a job. After he was gone I asked Gary’s friend, “So what happened?”. She confirmed that he never had a car or equipment needed. I asked if he got another job. She said, “Oh I don’t know, I don’t like Gary very much”.
I once worked for a small ISP that decided to enter the calling card business. I built them a voice prompt system on top of Asterisk that made received PSTN calls over PRI and made outbound VoIP calls, all metered to cards with a unique number and a balance, and a UI to activate them. The business got boxes of physical cards printed, with a plan to sell them to convenience stores.
They hired a salesperson (AKA worst coworker) to sell the boxes of cards. This coworker then sold many boxes of activated cards to many small stores at an unauthorised discount (below the level of profitability), for cash rather than the approved methods for retailers to buy them, and then apparently spent said cash at the casino. The business had to honour the cards (i.e. not deactivate them) at a big loss to avoid ruining their reputation, since the buyers apparently did not know the deal was dodgy. His tenure was, suffice to say, not long, but in his short time there, he managed to put the business under financial strain and it eventually went into liquidation.
Is that not a crime? Did the coworker end up getting sued?
It’s very likely a crime, but someone has to have assets if you’re going to sue them and… they may not have any.
What he did sounds a lot like theft, which is a criminal offense. He should spend some time in jail for shit like that.
Have to have room in the jail/prison first, and those minorities aren’t going to keep themselves down.
I used to work as a condo super at this one building where the cleaner was one of those chihuahua dudes. You know the ones, little runts who bark bark bark and puff up their chest at everyone to prove how tough they are, meanwhile they’re 5 foot, 100lbs soaking wet.
I walked into a break room and find this guy berating and yelling at this terrified young woman who was a cleaner as well. He was getting physical and pushing her chair so I literally grabbed him by the scruff and walked him out of the room into view of a camera. He started threatening to hit me, so I just crossed my arms and told him to go for it, knowing the camera was right there.
He didn’t do shit obviously, he yelled, grabbed his stuff and left. I called in his boss and had him removed from the site, but that was the culmination of months of his little man bullshit.
Homophobic, racist, misogynistic, pro russia russian guy. It still is.
A moron who was hired to be my boss, even though they didn’t tell me that was the case – who, with a straight face, dead serious, and with an undeserved authority befitting a piece of shit, told me that Object-oriented programming was a fad. This was in 2008, 30-40 years after OOP was first introduced to the world.
But it is a fad. Rust for example is not a truly OOP language. There are more ways to do software than OOP and slowly the OOP fad is going away. It has and will have it’s uses but using OOP for everything was a fad that most people are getting over now.
Well I guess there is more than one. By that logic, literally everything in the universe is a fad. Good luck selling that bullshit :)
No, it was a fad in the sense that people got too exited about it and started using it where it didn’t fit. Later they realized that and now start moving away from it. At least that how I would understand someone saying that “OOP is a fad”. It’s not some batshit crazy statement proving that someone is an idiot you’re trying to make it out to be.
Yes, it is a batshit crazy statement. “Fad - noun - an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object’s qualities; a craze”. OOP has existed for 40 years, has been widely tested, is a proven form of programming, and is still in active use today. You’re clearly missing the point, are severely uninformed, or have some agenda here, and I don’t really care to argue it with you. Good day.
You’re focusing too much on the ‘short lived’ part and not enough on the ‘intense’ and ‘without basis in qualities’ parts.
Short-lived is a key attribute of what “fad” means. If something stupid catches on for decades, it’s not a fad.
No, the definition says ‘especially one that is short-lived’. It means that things that are not short-lived can still be fads. It’s clearly an optional attribute. The key attributes are ‘intense’, ‘widely shared’.
Cool.
I appreciate your willingness to stand your ground and find your argument partially defensible.
There exist problems where OOP is a useful, convenient, and simple solution. Some of the zeal surrounding OOP is diminishing due to the inherent limitations concerning access and mutability, though that doesn’t make the tool less useful when it solves a class of problems simply.
OOP is not the ultimate solution many touted it as, however, it is likely to remain as a major paradigm. The fad will continue to ebb and flow, as its shortcomings are not apparent until you reach a certain level of complexity. (Such as multi-threading interactions.) That level of complexity is not required until you reach expert/researcher programming capability on problems that don’t have band-aid solutions or until you are forced to reconcile such issues by stricter compilers. Further, new programmers may not be aware of OOP until they need to solve a problem, re-introducing OOP as a cure-all.
As an unfortunate reminder, OOP has existed for 40 years, and a significant portion of advanced and capable programmers will call you a lunatic when you refuse to agree OOP is the ultimate solution. The class of problems the paradigm solves encompasses their entire career. Take the idealist or fanatic opinions with a grain of salt, thank them for their input, and let it slide off your shoulders.
A thing that complicated opinions and statements about OO is that it is not a clear cut thing. It is a collection of features that have become associated together but which don’t have to be, and not everyone agrees on which are required for something to be OO, or how important or useful (or harmful) each is.
What is most fad-like about it, IMO, is the conception that it is a coherent “paradigm”.
Please forgive the meandering reply.
As far as I’m concerned, OO is a mental model for how to handle any noun. Linux is a good example for OOP, in that, “Everything is a file.” Linux does this amazingly well; even interfaces that read data from USB ports are “files.”
However, this comes with some limitations. Kernel threads are not very accessible. If you tried to set up a single operating system over multiple computers, you would need some very severe modifications to Linux, and the implementation would likely have many sharp corners to snag on. (Where is this file? What hardware “owns/runs” it? How does Computer 2’s hardware take over, or modify a value currently in Computer 1’s CPU? Etc. As a side note, last I checked, the most common method of distributed computation with Linux is to install an OS on each computer, and have them report to a master or scheduling computer. Which, while functional, is reliant on separate components functioning on their own, independently of the scheduler.)
I’m stepping well out of my wheelhouse to give a contrasting example. Please be gentle with corrections. Kubernetes, designed to handle multiple pieces of hardware, is written
decorativelydeclaratively without OOP, I believe. Each piece of hardware becomes a node run by a control plane, which is much the same thing as an OS, but lighter, with less capabilities and independence. (?)This is not to say you can’t do the same thing with a custom Linux distro, but using an entirely OO pattern will create sharper corners.
Each paradigm has its own strengths and use-cases; and each their own weaknesses and limitations.