STILBRUCH
March 25, 2008

Jerks + Power = Disaster

I think I just made up a perfect formula the humanity has been looking for thousands of centuries.

Life’s pretty awkward, still. I use the word awkward in place of ‘fucked up’ when I am not in mood of using F words. Oh, well I think I just did. Anyways, another rough day at office. The formula couldn’t be more universal. There is this relatively new person who, when spoke for the first time, rang a bell that he is going to be some problem. Now there is this problem with me too: I am opinionated. I just can’t sit back and watch the shit happen in front of me. Given the current corporate culture, if you really want to fire me with a good reason, just give me a few minutes to talk freely. I would tell you what’s going to be disaster and what is not going to pay well. Once I got the chance to speak for a few minutes, thank goodness they didn’t fire me. I made up an app all by myself to teach them a lesson. But they didn’t get it. I gave examples but they won’t listen. The project I am working on is a good idea but the work has been poorly done. In this current Web 2.0 era, all you have to do is to remain creative and unique. I was talking about this guy. He has a decade of experience in Software Engineering, speaks English like a 10th grade student, is always wearing sandals under dress-pants, is rarely doing coding and always doing meetings. I haven’t had much chance to look at the backend that he does but I saw a little database structure and it was horrible. For example, he so desperately needed to store ‘lowered’ case usernames in a completely separate database field. And need to check the first login of user with another column with true false that would stay dead during whole period of usage. You could do that with checking the value of lastlogin timestamp. Such are the masterminds I have around me.

Today morning, that dear colleague of mine attacked me verbally when I was just thinking about taking another cup of coffee. Now I don’t know how to feel about that. I feel rather disgusted that I am writing about it. People are so godam fucking retards. Just give them power and see what happens. Just ask them for something and see what comes your way. Just give them respect (because you think it’s good) and they think you fear them. It’s funny how suddenly, when in power, people start to think themselves in position to ask anything.

Maybe I should sleep. I am really tired.

P.S: We have a new Prime Minister now, let’s see if he doesn’t break the formula.

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