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Good help is hard to find
*sigh*
I had this guy working for me for about a year, he quit about two years ago (on the verge of being let go for various reasons).
I hired him because he had more M$ SQL experience than I did and I needed someone to focus on DB development while I was growing the business and developing UI techniques with ASP.Net.
For a bunch of projects I'd asked him to do small bits of R&D to figure out ways to get certain things done.
He always came back with solutions that I didn't think were optimal, but would swear that he'd done the research and had found the only way to get that thing done...
After he left, little by little, as I was managing the code he'd developed, I invariably found better methods to accomplish all those little processes I'd had him develop--paid him to develop.
Today, I just found that I could do something in SQL that he swore couldn't be done. For a couple of years I'd just assumed that he was right. Today, I realised that if I could do that thing it would make my project's architecture much cleaner and also realised that I had no reason to assume he was correct.
Well... that thing that he said wouldn't work... just worked on my first try.
It was less than a five minute test to prove it would work... And I remember telling him to try exactly what I just tried.
I'm sure that the guy meant well, but he just wasn't up to the task.
Running a business is hard. You have to trust people. And sometimes they f**k you.
(this is by far NOT my worst employee horror story)
I had this guy working for me for about a year, he quit about two years ago (on the verge of being let go for various reasons).
I hired him because he had more M$ SQL experience than I did and I needed someone to focus on DB development while I was growing the business and developing UI techniques with ASP.Net.
For a bunch of projects I'd asked him to do small bits of R&D to figure out ways to get certain things done.
He always came back with solutions that I didn't think were optimal, but would swear that he'd done the research and had found the only way to get that thing done...
After he left, little by little, as I was managing the code he'd developed, I invariably found better methods to accomplish all those little processes I'd had him develop--paid him to develop.
Today, I just found that I could do something in SQL that he swore couldn't be done. For a couple of years I'd just assumed that he was right. Today, I realised that if I could do that thing it would make my project's architecture much cleaner and also realised that I had no reason to assume he was correct.
Well... that thing that he said wouldn't work... just worked on my first try.
It was less than a five minute test to prove it would work... And I remember telling him to try exactly what I just tried.
I'm sure that the guy meant well, but he just wasn't up to the task.
Running a business is hard. You have to trust people. And sometimes they f**k you.
(this is by far NOT my worst employee horror story)
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