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[–] RamboCommando 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

Developer for 13 years... new guy, older dude in his mid 40s, gets hired and placed into my office... day 1 he stats braggings about how he use to work for Microsoft as a developer. First week we're working together and he fights me about everything... real asshole know-it-all type.

Next week he's on his own. Dude doesn't know how to do anything at all. Nothing... I'd be surprised if he could even program a "Hello World" app. He bothers me all day long asking me how he should do his job.

Again, this is a grown man in his 40s. He constantly talks about what he's doing, but he takes forever to actually do anything. So he has to talk about the problem and ask me for a solution. Then he has to figure out what I just told him because he's a shit developer who doesn't understand anything I say. Then he has to tell me the solution, even though I'm the one that told him what to do... then he has to get up and go tell our boss what he's going to do. Then, since he's up, he'll go into the back and talk to the other tech support people about bullshit... then he comes back and sits down and starts to do work.

But just a few minutes. Then he has to get up and go to the bathroom... maybe it's lunch time... and about 12 times a day he just leaves the building to go for a walk. no bullshit, dude just walks out of work and goes for a walk.

Of course, everybody realizes he's not a developer so he gets bumped back down to tech-support... and now he's quitting at the end of the month because we don't appreciate him.

He's also anti-vaccinations and his reason was "nobody dies of polio anymore"... he honestly didn't see the problem with that argument. He thinks polio vaccinations are a ruse to inject us with... well... I honestly don't know.

He juices as a diet, he brags that he spent $5000 on this car that isn't even made yet, that has 3 wheel and runs on an electric motor and that it's the future... oblivious that electric cars already exist and are far nicer then his crowd-funded purchase he may never actually receive...

He saw the movie "Lucy" and he said he liked the movie but he hated the science... I thought, "cool, we finally have something in common"... then he told me he liked movies that explore how we only use 10% of our brain but hated how the film forced the false science of evolution on him.

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[–] insert_name 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Oh. It's really simple.

You have a religious Shrute in your office.