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Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence?
I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised!
Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent!
Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?
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Other than myself, no.
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?
Obama.
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Big of you to admit these shortcomings. 
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These guys are great if you do not work with them, I went through 4 contracts in the 90s (about 3 years) repairing one guys screw ups, it generally takes a few months for an organisation to realise they have a fake on board but a good manager will spot it and chuck the guy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: These guys are great if you do not work with them
I can see they make the real engineers look like gods. If the management ever notices...
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The guy I'm thinking of was his own worst enemy, we were members of the same user groups, and he could not help bragging about his new client, I would then get a prior victim to contact the new client.
He had a great line of bullshit and could sustain it for 2-3 months about the time the client was looking for real progress, oops!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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This prat has lasted 6 months. God knows how the managers haven't canned him ages ago, he has produced next to nothing in this time.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?
Have any of us not?
Bullsh1t is the main recourse of the incompetent.
Backstabbing comes a close second.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Backstabbing comes a close second.
Yeah, he has played that game too.
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A very funny book "How to be a Superwally" describes small motorbikes with the silencer baffles removes as having a high noise to power ratio.
You just described the human equivalent.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Flew back from Amman, having avoided radicalisation etc...Decided to watch the sequel to The 300.
5 Hour flight, so that finished, decided to watch Rev - a UKian comedy about an inner city vicar.
Rev had a warning about adult themes 300 didn't.
300: topless woman within 5 mins , weird sex scene with the ever delightful Eva Green, plus Gore & violence.
Rev: most offensive thing - Pomegranate and Pineapple tea.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Pomegranate and Pineapple tea.
Sounds like an "adult theme" to me.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Pomegranate and Pineapple
Ah but were the pomegranates and pineapples topless also?
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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The pomegranates had their pips out and pineapples were hard core.
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How long did you think of that one?! 
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Keith Barrow wrote: , plus Gore
Al Gore recycled into an actor ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Al Gore recycled into an actor ?
Most famous for his role in the Broadway play "I invented the internet."
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Maximilien wrote: Al Gore recycled into an actor ?
Well why not? We've had an actor recycled into a president!
Marc
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In my defence, this was posted from my mobile...
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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If Al Gore was in the movie then there should have been a disclaimer 
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Keith Barrow wrote: Pomegranate and Pineapple tea
Look, there are limits, OK?
If you can't accept that, you shouldn't be allowed out into polite society.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Any recommendations?
All I know is that I want an Android phone with an okay camera (at least 8 megapixel) and not to expensive (which is subjective, of course).
I'm not very gadget savvy and all these phones are making my head spin... Samsung, LG, Huawei, HTC, Motorola, Acer... 
Of course I'd rather just buy Nokia, but I've had it with Windows Phone. It looks nice, it works well, but it doesn't have the apps I want and Google's decision to not support synching on Windows Phone has made it pretty useless for me...
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I have a Galaxy S3. I like it...I like it uh lot. (dumb and dumber voice)
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Looking pretty good. Compared it to the S4 and I might even go for that one...
As it seems everything is better than my current phone though (Nokia Lumia 800) 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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