It is a long story but yeah it was about 80% management’s fault and 20% the fault of the dude having zero ambition. I didn’t expect this comment to get so many downvotes… it’s as though I would need to explain that I’m not entirely blaming him for continuing to be employed in a problematic manner as he was. Obviously management should have addressed the issue and didn’t, but why am I not allowed to blame a person for sucking at their job… ? If the idea is that if I thought he sucked I should have fixed it, that’s silly, but regardless I did try to teach him things. He never retained anything, so after a few months I gave up.
Thanks for actually reading what I wrote. Many people read a little and make up the rest or make up something to replace what was written. I mean yeah, he deserves way more than 20% of the blame for pretending like he wanted to learn, however my manager bears a lot of blame for the situation overall because he should have reprimanded him then fired him after a couple months if he didn’t improve. Instead, my teammates and I spent hours and hours ripping this guy’s PRs to shreds and trying to teach him shit and it never went anywhere. I remember one PR had over 90 comments on it! He routinely broke the build, usually in the same ways as before. I spent so much time pointing out the same mistakes over and over.
If he’d been fired, that timesuck would’ve been minimized and actually there’s some small possibility he would’ve gotten better if he thought he couldn’t get away with coasting like he did. But since his incompetence went uncontested for two years by management, he wasted tons of everyone’s time. If it were up to me he would’ve been gone before three months.
It is a long story but yeah it was about 80% management’s fault and 20% the fault of the dude having zero ambition. I didn’t expect this comment to get so many downvotes… it’s as though I would need to explain that I’m not entirely blaming him for continuing to be employed in a problematic manner as he was. Obviously management should have addressed the issue and didn’t, but why am I not allowed to blame a person for sucking at their job… ? If the idea is that if I thought he sucked I should have fixed it, that’s silly, but regardless I did try to teach him things. He never retained anything, so after a few months I gave up.
You’re totally allowed to blame him. He had a choice and he decided not to do what it takes.
I’m not even sure why you’d allocate only 20% to the dude.
Thanks for actually reading what I wrote. Many people read a little and make up the rest or make up something to replace what was written. I mean yeah, he deserves way more than 20% of the blame for pretending like he wanted to learn, however my manager bears a lot of blame for the situation overall because he should have reprimanded him then fired him after a couple months if he didn’t improve. Instead, my teammates and I spent hours and hours ripping this guy’s PRs to shreds and trying to teach him shit and it never went anywhere. I remember one PR had over 90 comments on it! He routinely broke the build, usually in the same ways as before. I spent so much time pointing out the same mistakes over and over.
If he’d been fired, that timesuck would’ve been minimized and actually there’s some small possibility he would’ve gotten better if he thought he couldn’t get away with coasting like he did. But since his incompetence went uncontested for two years by management, he wasted tons of everyone’s time. If it were up to me he would’ve been gone before three months.
Corporation is parasitic. Why did you sustain the existence of Mani Mani’s vampiric thieves of your entire existence, by your own choice?
That guy wasn’t making mistakes when poisoning the blood drawn.