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Open mouth insert…

Or perhaps not insert foot?

I was conversing with my boss today about a fellow programmer. Earlier I had asked said programmer how something worked and I got the usual “why the fuck are you bothering me” response (that’s not what he said, but it’s his attitude). The guy is more of a programmer than I’ll ever be (even in my dreams), but he lacks any human interaction skills (yes he’s single!) but in the company that he works for he at least needs to be able to communicate with the programmers. I work on some of the projects that he’s developed and I do my best to keep the customer service and designers away from him, but sometimes it’s not possible. Any how this wasn’t the first “fuck you” response I’d received and it’s been building up.

So I told my boss that talking to said programmer was like talking to a rock. I couldn’t get anything out of him that was of any use. My boss said “he probably heard you,”. To which I replied “I don’t care”. But then as usual I got to thinking about it afterwards. Did I really care and should I have not said what I said? I came to the conclusion that in this situation I didn’t care. It’s something that’s been grating on me (and most of the other programmers I believe) and it needed to be said.

No insert foot into mouth on this one!

By: Chris | 2006/11/15 | General - work | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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  1. Scott
    Comment by Scott | 2006/11/16 at 00:54:29

    Everyone has their favourite time and means of communication. Try talking to him when he goes to make himself a coffee, or just after he gets back from lunch. He’s more likely to be open then (and once you’re talking to him, you can find out other good times or signals).

  2. Chris
    Comment by Chris | 2006/11/16 at 06:07:19

    Scott - a good idea, but I’ve tried talking to him, just being friendly, when he goes to get coffee and he just grunts. Not sure if it’s because he doesn’t want to talk or what the deal is. But thanks for the advice.

  3. Raul
    Comment by Raul | 2006/11/16 at 07:53:35

    Sounds like a foot needs to be inserted, but in his ass instead of in your mouth. We used to have cooks like that at Outback. One of them had little man syndrome to the worst degree. He always said he’d come out and whip someones ass and blah blah blah. So one day he yelled about something trivial, pointed a knife about me and said if I didn’t do what he said I’d be in trouble. So I dropped the apron and invited him to the server side of the line and proceeded to take off my safari shirt (I did have a shirt on underneath) while yelling obscenities at him. His response was “Well if I had more time I’d come out there and whip your ass.” So I looked at the guy on the line next to him and said “Wendell, cover his station while we settle this. He needs time. We’re making it now.” By then the bosses had figured out what was going on and put a stop to it. I dont’ think he said anything else that night so after the shift I confronted him about it and asked what his deal was. All he said was “I don’t know man. I’m sorry.” Problems were non-existant after that. Given this is a restaurant and calling someone a fuckstick in your office might not be as well accepted. But I never had problem one with him and neither did anybody else really after that.

  4. Chris
    Comment by Chris | 2006/11/16 at 19:01:56

    Small man syndrome….I know it well…from having to work with someone like that. :)


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