Moronic team members

[Ignis Fatuus]

The saddest part of this story is that is YOU who the MD thinks is idiot.

Dunning–Kruger effect

The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.

Or as Bertrand Russell put it more pithily,

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

This effect can be seen all around us, from the quality of our politicians to the fact that the market for highly skilled intelligent trained and useful professionals is controlled by agents. It reaches its height on The Apprentice.

[jmo21]

you got a screenshot - you lucky lucky baarsted.

this happened to me last week. i tulip you not.

MD (of s/w house) 'Why are you using <field2> here and why is it empty?'
EO - 'Because last week, you asked for a report that includes <field2>'
MD - 'I specifically asked for the report to include <field1>'
EO - 'err, ok, I will change it. just let me document this'
MD - 'Why are you using <field1> on this report'
EO - 'aha - produces documentation. this is what you asked for yesterday'
MD -'No No No. <Client1> wants <field1>, <Client2> wants <field2>'
EO - 'AHA. there are two fields. Each client has their own field. gotcha.'
MD - 'Nooo. there is one field, they just call it different things'

MD - 'Isnt it obvious'

The saddest part of this story is that is YOU who the MD thinks is idiot.

[suityou01]

you got a screenshot - you lucky lucky baarsted.

this happened to me last week. i tulip you not.

MD (of s/w house) 'Why are you using <field2> here and why is it empty?'
EO - 'Because last week, you asked for a report that includes <field2>'
MD - 'I specifically asked for the report to include <field1>'
EO - 'err, ok, I will change it. just let me document this'
MD - 'Why are you using <field1> on this report'
EO - 'aha - produces documentation. this is what you asked for yesterday'
MD -'No No No. <Client1> wants <field1>, <Client2> wants <field2>'
EO - 'AHA. there are two fields. Each client has their own field. gotcha.'
MD - 'Nooo. there is one field, they just call it different things'

MD - 'Isnt it obvious'

Yes we business analysts ARE good value for money.

[BoredBloke]

Best one I had was my PM who range from the states to ask which key was the enter key on his keyboard. He used a docking station and an external keyboard and used the enter key on the numeric pad, because it had the word written on it.

I told him to use the biggest key that wasn't space

[realityhack]

In a former life as web manager, I had some changes mailed to the team to process. Person in question had printed out the webpage, scrawled all over it (mostly text changes) in spidery handwriting, then scanned it in and emailed. Very elegant.

Another time we spent about half an hour explaining to someone in marketing that material published to dev isn't actually live.
"but I've seen it, you typed in a web address to get to it, so the work is finished and live, yes?"
"er... let's go over this again"

[ThomasSoerensen]

Do you build working relationships easily?

Always

[ThomasSoerensen]

you got a screenshot - you lucky lucky baarsted.

this happened to me last week. i tulip you not.

MD (of s/w house) 'Why are you using <field2> here and why is it empty?'
EO - 'Because last week, you asked for a report that includes <field2>'
MD - 'I specifically asked for the report to include <field1>'
EO - 'err, ok, I will change it. just let me document this'
MD - 'Why are you using <field1> on this report'
EO - 'aha - produces documentation. this is what you asked for yesterday'
MD -'No No No. <Client1> wants <field1>, <Client2> wants <field2>'
EO - 'AHA. there are two fields. Each client has their own field. gotcha.'
MD - 'Nooo. there is one field, they just call it different things'

MD - 'Isnt it obvious'

[EternalOptimist]

you got a screenshot - you lucky lucky baarsted.

this happened to me last week. i tulip you not.

MD (of s/w house) 'Why are you using <field2> here and why is it empty?'
EO - 'Because last week, you asked for a report that includes <field2>'
MD - 'I specifically asked for the report to include <field1>'
EO - 'err, ok, I will change it. just let me document this'
MD - 'Why are you using <field1> on this report'
EO - 'aha - produces documentation. this is what you asked for yesterday'
MD -'No No No. <Client1> wants <field1>, <Client2> wants <field2>'
EO - 'AHA. there are two fields. Each client has their own field. gotcha.'
MD - 'Nooo. there is one field, they just call it different things'

MD - 'Isnt it obvious'

[suityou01]

I was thinking of responding by attaching a mp3 file with a recording of my answer.

but I just send a snide answer and clicked "Reply to All", and now I have the excel file.

cheers

Do you build working relationships easily?

[ThomasSoerensen]

I was thinking of responding by attaching a mp3 file with a recording of my answer.

but I just send a snide answer and clicked "Reply to All", and now I have the excel file.

cheers

[suityou01]

I just received an email from a project team member asking me to include some data in some objects.
And what was the format of the data?

A screenshot of an excel file!!!!!!

How idiotic can you be????
How is anyone supposed to work with data presented in a partial screenshot of an excel file?
Is it not easier to simply attach the excel file to the email?

You guys have similar encounters with idiots actually working in IT who should know better than a grey squirrel?

Make everything VARCHAR(4000)

Simples

[ThomasSoerensen]

I just received an email from a project team member asking me to include some data in some objects.
And what was the format of the data?

A screenshot of an excel file!!!!!!

How idiotic can you be????
How is anyone supposed to work with data presented in a partial screenshot of an excel file?
Is it not easier to simply attach the excel file to the email?

You guys have similar encounters with idiots actually working in IT who should know better than a grey squirrel?