Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss

Re:Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty ... by pellmellism on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:50PM (#10240257)

I had hired Bobby on Codementor.io to quick solve a problem one weekend...paid ~$400 for some code which didnt do what it needed to. I read the article as I read most articles on hacker news and half way through I realized that Bobby was the same tool bag I ran into in the past. I logged back in and re-read my conversation with him and it was shockingly similar...to be clear, I dont think Billy is right, but Bobby is a tool. I thought I was done wasting my time reading his "im never wrong" opinionated excuses and garbage. You know who winners are bobby? Winners are people too busy winning to sit around crafting bullshit and excuses. Shut up and do something if your so special. Ive seen weekend code from you - take the 222 and shhh, you made out on that deal.

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Re:Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty ... by osullivj on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:59PM (#10240330)

I'm not familiar with the epithet 'toolbag'. I take you're not likening Bobby to a bag of tools. In this context, is toolbag a metaphor for scrotal sac?

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Re:Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty ... by monknomo on Friday September 18, 2015 @02:28PM (#10241108)

A tool is an insult for a person who is a jerk with a high opinion of themselves. Appending bag to tool is an enhancer to the original insult, like douche vs douchebag.

You also get things like jerkbag or dirtbag or dickbag. I think I've seen people write "so and so is a bag," so the exact nature of the insult is evolving.

Bag is evocative of scrotum, but I don't think it originally evolved that way. Although scrotebag is a pretty good insult

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Re:Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty ... by osullivj on Friday September 18, 2015 @02:54PM (#10241303)

Thanks for explaining!

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Re:Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty ... by rboyd on Saturday September 19, 2015 @08:04PM (#10246016)

I am truly sorry it didn't work out in our case, but I don't see how you can expect a refund for my time. Feel free to paste our conversation for others to read.

I tried to deliver the project in a way that maximized the value you were getting for my time and I set you up so you only needed to fine tune some physics parameters, because I didn't feel it was fair to charge you full rate to do work that most anybody could do.

I remember your project because you were my only negative review there. I think codementor may have scrubbed your review though after they looked over chat, because I still maintain 5 star rating on that site.

Remind me how much you were requesting as a refund again. Is there anything else I can do to mend things?

FWIW, I still didn't get a share of the prize money so there's nothing to "shhh" yet.

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