today is a big day.
yesterday was a big day too. it began with performing a review that left me utterly gobsmacked. moonlighter had sat with him the day before and come away confused as to what he was doing, i took a look and was later informed that the entire office could hear the condescension in my voice.
i'm not proud of that.
but cam2 had simultaneously demonstrated an excellent understanding of php and a disastrous inability to apply programming principles to solving a problem. he'd ignored the excessively explicit instructions and produced a complex beast that was incomplete, filled with legacy code (and he'd started from scratch), and functionally the equivalent of trying to hammer in a nail using a dart.
i couldn't not report this, and i can tell you that doing so did not feel good in the slightest. it felt awful. the cfo gave us a talking to, though, and put things in sharper perspective. it was eventually decided to keep him on and to attempt to retrain him.
yep, the situation in quebec *is* desperate. and i'm going to need to switch out my regular, more demanding mode and settle for coaching.
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i was asked for my opinion on a bunch of resumes, interns that'll i'll be in charge of when i start working tomorrow (!!!). after each cv i felt like i'd met the guy and it's hard to disqualify someone when you're looking for potential as opposed to achievements. i eventually had to settle on criteria and hope that i'm on the right track.
the problem is that if resumes are to be believed... every candidate is amazing.
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