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  • M Munchies_Matt

    Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence? I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised! Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent! Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

    Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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    Big Daddy Farang
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    Other than myself, no.

    BDF The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer. -- PaulowniaK

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    • M Munchies_Matt

      Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence? I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised! Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent! Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

      Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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      Slacker007
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      Munchies_Matt wrote:

      Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

      Obama.

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      • M Munchies_Matt

        Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence? I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised! Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent! Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

        Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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        R Giskard Reventlov
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        Big of you to admit these shortcomings. :-)

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        • M Munchies_Matt

          Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence? I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised! Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent! Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

          Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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          Mycroft Holmes
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          These guys are great if you do not work with them, I went through 4 contracts in the 90s (about 3 years) repairing one guys screw ups, it generally takes a few months for an organisation to realise they have a fake on board but a good manager will spot it and chuck the guy.

          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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          • M Munchies_Matt

            Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence? I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised! Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent! Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

            Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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            Mark_Wallace
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            Munchies_Matt wrote:

            Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

            Have any of us not? Bullsh1t is the main recourse of the incompetent. Backstabbing comes a close second.

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            • M Mark_Wallace

              Munchies_Matt wrote:

              Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

              Have any of us not? Bullsh1t is the main recourse of the incompetent. Backstabbing comes a close second.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              Munchies_Matt
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              Mark_Wallace wrote:

              Backstabbing comes a close second.

              Yeah, he has played that game too.

              Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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              • M Mycroft Holmes

                These guys are great if you do not work with them, I went through 4 contracts in the 90s (about 3 years) repairing one guys screw ups, it generally takes a few months for an organisation to realise they have a fake on board but a good manager will spot it and chuck the guy.

                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                Munchies_Matt
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                Mycroft Holmes wrote:

                These guys are great if you do not work with them

                I can see they make the real engineers look like gods. If the management ever notices...

                Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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                • M Munchies_Matt

                  Mycroft Holmes wrote:

                  These guys are great if you do not work with them

                  I can see they make the real engineers look like gods. If the management ever notices...

                  Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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                  Mycroft Holmes
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                  The guy I'm thinking of was his own worst enemy, we were members of the same user groups, and he could not help bragging about his new client, I would then get a prior victim to contact the new client. He had a great line of bullshit and could sustain it for 2-3 months about the time the client was looking for real progress, oops!

                  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                  • M Mycroft Holmes

                    The guy I'm thinking of was his own worst enemy, we were members of the same user groups, and he could not help bragging about his new client, I would then get a prior victim to contact the new client. He had a great line of bullshit and could sustain it for 2-3 months about the time the client was looking for real progress, oops!

                    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                    Munchies_Matt
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                    This prat has lasted 6 months. God knows how the managers haven't canned him ages ago, he has produced next to nothing in this time.

                    Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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                    • M Munchies_Matt

                      Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence? I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised! Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent! Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?

                      Sign a petition calling for the boycott of Israel until it returns to its legal 1967 borders.

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                      PhilLenoir
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                      A very funny book "How to be a Superwally" describes small motorbikes with the silencer baffles removes as having a high noise to power ratio. You just described the human equivalent.

                      Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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