Yeah, I really don’t understand why they hired me. It was a contract role and they ended it early once they ran out of things for me to do. Last day I drove home laughing the way home I was so fucking happy to leave that place.
They really sucked afterwards though since they wouldn’t even say if I worked there or not while I was job hunting, so I spent the next few months unemployeed.
I literally had the “Java is to javascript as car is to carpet” conversation with my dickhead boss. He didn’t get it and I had to explain to him that you don’t drive a carpet to work.
How were you supposed to test your software if you weren’t allowed to create an executable?
You had to go to the balcony to test it.
https://martinelli.ch/balcony-architecture-a-symptom-of-fear-and-confusion-in-legacy-code/
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Eventually it was decided I would write Javascript on a web page I made. Skills I never declaired having I told them I was a java dev.
So they essentially hired you for no reason and then had to come up with something for you to do?
It’s more common than you think.
Yeah, I really don’t understand why they hired me. It was a contract role and they ended it early once they ran out of things for me to do. Last day I drove home laughing the way home I was so fucking happy to leave that place.
They really sucked afterwards though since they wouldn’t even say if I worked there or not while I was job hunting, so I spent the next few months unemployeed.
Javascript is a part of Java, duh!
I literally had the “Java is to javascript as car is to carpet” conversation with my dickhead boss. He didn’t get it and I had to explain to him that you don’t drive a carpet to work.
Maybe your boss was from the middle east and didn’t understand your point…