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

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."

englebart

Create a policy that new work must pass UAT with javascript disabled! There goes react. You can say that a new policy to disable javascript is being considered by some of the departments that deal with sensitive info.

Steve Naidamast

I had a similar issue way back in the 1970s when I was working with IBM's excellent System 3/Model 12 systems. I was learning development at that time but the manager hired a "super star" just like the guy you describe. This new fellow was a complete idiot because he thought he could do no wrong. Well, he did plenty wrong. One day he came in and simply removed a disk while it was being backed up, scrambling the entire system to pieces. The operator, who I had trained to an expert capability was not in the computer room when this jerk simply did his thing so he could get on with his work. Other times he would take perfectly well written applications that did exactly what they were supposed to do and turn them into gargantuan nightmares filled with bugs and defects. By the time I left this position I had developed the entire ticket tracking and inventory systems, which were quite extensive at the time. Each system had a single operator intervention with the computer and then they could be left run overnight. These systems ran like clock work for months on a regular basis without a single issue. Before I left, I prepared exact instructions on how to update the source code and run the two systems. Well the jerk here thought he knew better. He took both systems and turned them into unworkable messes. When I cam back for a visit with some friends they told me that the inventories had not been completed in 6 weeks and the still couldn;t get them to run properly. So when a know-it-all shows up on the premises bury him at least 20 feet down, deep in a forest, and then pour lime on the body. Make sure the ditch is covered with used soil and ensure there is no trace of a burial... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com

Forogar

Quote:

using Crystal Reports

Even I'm not that cruel! Hmmm... that's an idea though.