Some people are full of crap.

[wischeez]

ex-lax?

 

[irishScott]

ex-lax?

Lace his lunch with it? I agree.

 

[Rumpltzer]

1. Surprising that the new hire got through the interview process without setting off alarms. Interview fail?

2. The new hire sounds like manager material.

 

[Cogman]

1. Surprising that the new hire got through the interview process without setting off alarms. Interview fail?

2. The new hire sounds like manager material.

The guy is a contractor.

And it sounds like HR was completely in charge of the hiring of this one (as the manager really didn't sound all that impressed.) The only other guy that may have been involved in the process was the last contractor that was on board for about 2 months (greener pastures).

 

[disappoint]

Capitalism isn't the problem. It's morally bankrupt people that abuse the system that are the problem. This new guy is nuts to start talking shit his first day.

 

[gorcorps]

After some food, everybody will be full of crap

 

[Locut0s]

I'm just scared of the crap that's full of people D:

 

[RedRooster]

I like screwing with those habitual liars. Ask him how good he is at golf, those people always are as good as Tiger Woods. Then invite him to go golfing and suddenly his golf clubs will have gotten stolen or lost in the move and he'll shoot over 100 with the rental clubs. How convenient.

 

[irishScott]

I like screwing with those habitual liars. Ask him how good he is at golf, those people always are as good as Tiger Woods. Then invite him to go golfing and suddenly his golf clubs will have gotten stolen or lost in the move and he'll shoot over 100 with the rental clubs. How convenient.

And the best part is: He'll blame the clubs.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

One of the best parts of working in a trade is that regardless of the drivel that comes out of a person's mouth, you learn in a very short time whether they can do the job or not. Lots of folks have diarrhea of the mouth but, if they can do the job, you discover that's just how they cope. If they can't do the job, no one shows them any respect and they're gone in short order. I would hate not knowing if they could do the job for weeks or even months.

 

[CPA]

I have a girl that works for me that believes that capitalism is evil and corporations are evil. My company is a Fortune 250 company and she's been with it for 10 years now, got a paid for education and has been promoted several times. So evil she just can't leave.

 

[artikk]

To be honest, most people are after a certain time when they ate.

 

[Cogman]

I have a girl that works for me that believes that capitalism is evil and corporations are evil. My company is a Fortune 250 company and she's been with it for 10 years now, got a paid for education and has been promoted several times. So evil she just can't leave.

. I was mostly just amazed at how stupid a person would have to be to start his first day telling his coworker how terrible capitalism is in Texas. I mean, I could understand if this was working for a small art company in New York, then there would be little risk of looking bad. But a large company (fortune 500 big) in Texas? You're not going to win many friends that way.

Later in the day, he was complaining about how terrible our development routine is while bragging about how he was "an applications engineer!" and this would never fly under his watch! I couldn't help but think "you're process couldn't have been all that great considering you just stated that your company went under earlier".

In some ways, I'm almost excited to go to work on Monday. I'm wondering how this guy is going to blame everything for the fact that he is new (I don't know how to do this, it is everyone's fault!)

 

[Cogman]

The saga continues!

Apparently, every process that happens in this company is retarded. Security? retarded. Remote servers? retarded. Unix login? retarded.

One conversation that was priceless

Trainer: "Well, you need an SSH client to work with our Linux server".
New guy bragging: "Oh, I'm a vi MASTER I know everything about vi!"
Trainer: "That's great, but first you have to log in with an SSH client like Putty"
New guy: "Oh, I don't need putty, I know how to use vi! Every system has vi, so that is what I use!"
Trainer a little frustrated: "You can't access the system without some sort of SSH client. vi is a word processor, not an ssh client."
New guy: "Oh, so I need an emulator?! Wow, that is retarded, you should totally do ...."

The other funny thing that happens is anytime someone brings up anything that could be remotely linked to a buzz word, he will go into some sort of strange buzzword monologue.

Some dude: "Yeah, so you need to use the COE to install a program X"
New guy: "Oh COE, yeah I'm a MASTER at COE, I've used it with my PDQ while doing Agile training with my Mongo DB. I totally rocked the SCRUM style!"

This is providing me with hours of entertainment!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Candy canes and roses. Why? Is this not normal?

Ouch, I can't see that being easy to pass. D:

 

[RedRooster]

That guy sounds like a lonely, bitter, hungry nerd. That will be no stopping him until he deletes his domain account by accident.

 

[Ichinisan]

I worked with one of those. He wasn't around for long.

 

[TJCS]

maybe he was telling the truth. He inherited a fortune from his rich daddy and lost it all as he was flowing it through his hands.

 

[TecHNooB]

guys like that make for a nice foil.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

New hire is a moron.

What sort of moron joins a large corporate company in Texas and on the first day starts making comments like "Oh, capitalism is so bad and evil!".

Then to justify his statement he goes on to say crap like "I owned a company that had BILLIONS of dollars flowing through my hand. I was so tempted to steal it!" Which says two things about this fellow to me.
1. He is a liar. You don't go from "owning billions" to "working in entry level IT". No matter what the breaks are, you can do better.
2. He is probably untrustworthy. There are PLENTY of people that handle large amounts of money that aren't tempted to steal it.

I'm pretty sure the guy completely lied on his resume. My manager over lunch was saying about the same thing (doesn't know how he got through, his resume is 3 pages of buzz words and fluff. etc).

You must have hired the same guy we just got rid of, same kind of crap.

 

[Icepick]

Either the guy is a colossal tool or he knows someone in a very high place who will protect him.

 

[Icepick]

That guy sounds like a lonely, bitter, hungry nerd. That will be no stopping him until he deletes his domain account by accident.

HAHAHA We had someone delete the entire "IT" domain by accident. The rest of the company was OK but all areas of the IT department were offline the rest of the day (Friday) through Saturday.

 

[Lithium381]

moran

 

[Satyrist]

Capitalism isn't the problem. It's morally bankrupt people that abuse the system that are the problem. This new guy is nuts to start talking shit his first day.

Apologies if this is a bit of an old bump, but I seem to recall something not so dissimilar a little over a decade ago where I was working...

One new full time person had been brought in, same department...Seemed to be OK, actually, until it started coming to light that,

a. He, matter-of-factly, commented about how he knew how to put viruses onto computer networks...Guess the joke was on him, as most of the computers on that network were either Macs, or Sun computers.

b. The guy clearly had padded his resume more than a bit. Didn't exactly witness it first-hand, as I was transitioning into another division at the time.

The last thing I had heard about the guy, was that apparently this guy's previous employer was good friends with my company's owner...And evidently he had some pretty severe data loss from a computer virus that went gangbusters. Two and two were put together, (guy had a grievance that the company hadn't paid him as a contractor) and well, he was promptly booted immediately afterwards.

Other one,

Guy gets hired as IT manager to replace the one that had just left the company.

His total amount of time employed at my company? 16 hours.

This guy evidently had a rather heavy penchant for browsing warez or pr0n the likes which could have been found off of Stileproject or the like at that time...Much heavier duty stuff than Playboy, apparently, but reportedly nothing particularly illegal aside from warez....The guy had the misconception that nobody was monitoring him, he got warned 3 different times to knock it the hell off. After the third warning, he was promptly booted.

Icing on the cake, of course, was that this guy lied his pants off on his resume about his qualifications, too. I can't imagine that this guy did any work at all even while hired.

 

[randomrogue]

People are lying a lot on resumes nowadays. Hiring people can be a daunting task. People seem to think they can lie about their education the most. I admit that I've never checked on someone's educational background but if you put on your resume that you have a MBA or Masters Degree you shouldn't be an idiot. What gets people though is when they put software packages on there that they are clearly not proficient in. It wastes so much time.

Funny really. At first I was wondering why there were 100 applicants from 6 figure jobs trying to get a $15/hr position. Figured the economy must be far worse than expected. Turns out they were just lying on their resumes.