Re:Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questi...
by nucleardog on Thursday April 28, 2016 @04:59PM
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I got hired on at a job to replace a guy like that. He "got so much done" and "worked so hard" (was at the office late) until he up and left.
Step 1 when I got hired on was to automate away half of what he was doing. I turned processes that were previously three hour projects into five minutes and a shell script. Not many late nights or 16 hour days for me.
Step 2 was to finish all the work he'd left behind. It wasn't unusual to get a bug report coming in "Oh, in screen X when you try and do Y it doesn't work right." only to find that while he'd built an interface, there was no code behind any of it.
Step 1 when I got hired on was to automate away half of what he was doing. I turned processes that were previously three hour projects into five minutes and a shell script. Not many late nights or 16 hour days for me.
Step 2 was to finish all the work he'd left behind. It wasn't unusual to get a bug report coming in "Oh, in screen X when you try and do Y it doesn't work right." only to find that while he'd built an interface, there was no code behind any of it.