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1. steveB+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-03-27 13:00:28
Over time we actually found him to be more of a -2x engineer, but thats another story

edit: reminded me of the old joke

A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs, get a dozen.”

The programmer returns home with 12 gallons of milk and says, “They had eggs.”

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2. monsie+r5[view] [source] 2025-03-27 13:34:49
>>steveB+(OP)
The fool, he should have gotten 13 gallons of milk
3. stavro+Hh[view] [source] 2025-03-27 14:48:22
>>steveB+(OP)
Ah, the "and" ruins that joke for me by signifying a separate clause. I think the original is:

> A programmer gets sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen.”

4. chrism+sI[view] [source] 2025-03-27 17:36:16
>>steveB+(OP)
> more of a -2x engineer

You just needed to find another one like him, and bam, +4×.

(It is actually conceivable that two bad engineers could mostly cancel each other out, if they can occupy each other enough, but it’s not the most likely outcome.)

5. glxxyz+v01[view] [source] 2025-03-27 19:14:19
>>steveB+(OP)
'Antiwork' - every hour they work uses up more than an hour of other engineers' time in questions, meetings, and later fixes.
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6. steveB+o81[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-03-27 20:00:17
>>glxxyz+v01
Correct - they do bad work quickly which requires 2x the time on repairs
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