When the arrogant know-it-all in your team is not you. - UPDATE

[dan sh]

So, you think he is over_react_ing.

"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

[Abbas A Ali]

Its a bit amazing and scary at the same time, how much traction a murderous idea is getting by people of profession which are generally known as introverts and socially awkward. Then again that might be the reason why. I may just be scared because I'm the know-it-all in my team :^)

[Mark_Wallace]

Just stick the body in the cabinet with all the VB4, PSP3, VS Boston, adobe acrobat, foxpro, etc. discs. No-one will happen across it even by accident, there. The cupboard with all the old ps2 cables, memory sticks, floppy drives, etc. is riskier, because some people use old CD drives as bases, to lift their monitors a bit higher. [ edit: the second sentence was a bit too "even" ]

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

[DJ van Wyk]

And the bulk of the business logic must be done in VBA, with no plugins allowed.

My plan is to live forever ... so far so good

[Dominic Burford]

That was Brick Tops favourite disposal method in the film Snatch :)

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[Dominic Burford]

Pitchforks at the ready everyone, we got another one over here :laugh:

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter

[CPallini]

:-D :thumbsup:

[Sander Rossel]

We're going to need some censorship here X|

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[Martijn Smitshoek]

You should be free to state that "persistence of an opinion is not the same as knowledge or professionalism". However, the problem with these folks is that summary execution does not help, and they will keep talking even when the head is chronically severed from the body. We call them "zweefteef" but I can't seem to find a suitable translation.

[RickZeeland]

"Airhead" maybe? :-\

[RickZeeland]

And don't forget the scythes :-\

[Mark_Wallace]

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

IMHO, that's the wrong approach.  I suggest instead promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.

Senior project manager?

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

[Nand32]

Forogar wrote:

Where is the best place to bury a body? J

Bingo?[^] It's easy when people do it as a routine.

[V 0]

On the pavement in front of your office, only valid if you throw him from high enough though... aa aaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaa aaaaaaarrgghhhhhh [splet] (too harsh? :~)

V.

[maze3]

At the least, only verbally tell your friend. You don't want to be implicated with a paper trail. Also before telling them, check them for any recording devices. Maybe also do the meeting in the server room so the deafening noise masks anything you say.

[W Balboos GHB]

Well - the way you describe the new team member - and the way you describe yourself - I'd either 'off the both of you' or put you both in the same cell.

Ravings en masse^

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

[MKJCP]

He needs a STFU from the group, or cement shoes, always in style.:suss:

[Keefer S]

I've seen such things too often to count. The more inept the employee, the faster they seem to get promoted at times.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.

Company Historian, perhaps?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[agolddog]

Just playing devil's advocate here: is it possible he's right (just overly enthusiastic)? In my example, I got to my current place where these HPCs are, "MVC is too hard", "Linq makes weird queries and is too hard", "ADO.NET is better than EF", etc, etc. Then running around babbling about adding memory to SQL Server because their crappy sprocs return every record that qualifies for a search, rather than one page's worth of things. Rewrote our main search into EF/linq, a little skip/take action later, our SQL memory problem disappeared. I don't know if React is a good or bad thing. We need to keep moving forward, but in a sensible manner. Maybe it should be added, but as a project unto itself? As opposed to, "I'm making this other change which doesn't require react, but while I'm up, I'll throw that in."