@enderland LOL that is the great thing about the internet you no longer have to figure these things out. I learned to program in the 80's and unless it was in a computer magazine if you wanted/needed to do it you had to figure out how to implement it yourself
Im curious to know, when a question is closed, why does it list the closers? It doesnt add anything to the scenario, there is no need to know who closed it is there?
Surely it leads to the potential of someone being annoyed that the same person voted to close most of their questions and 'vows vengence' leading to destructive behaviour.
@RhysW That certainly happens in some cases, but I guess it's for accountability and such. It is a "moderating" action, which the system pretty much always logs and keeps available for auditing
This is part of what drove me from my last job. I had been working as a peer with someone doing the exact same job, we were geographically diverse and when some changes occurred, they decided to put the guy in home office at the top of a new team and I got effectively demoted and cut off from th...
I am still in training and sometimes my boss does not answer my questions. Other times he tells me to think about it. For example I was setting up a new machine and asked him to confirm I should install a certain program and he said to think about it and I should not be asking such questions. (Ok...
There is a lot of fear in the workplace, among both employees and managers or owners, stresses that they do not channel appropriately. Some people are quite simply incompetent and have gotten good at faking their way through the job, so anyone who is a straight shooter is a threat to their well-c...
6 weeks ago, I accepted a job offer for a senior position based overseas and signed and returned the offer letter. The onboard date was determined to be 2 weeks from now. Everything seems good. I am in the process of making international relocation, selling my house, furniture, cars...
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I am placed in a new software project along with another colleague who happens to be one level up in hierarchy. We both are on the project for around a month now. As both of us are new to the project we both have to create visibility and make a place for ourselves in the project. So this makes it...
If someone asks how to do XYZ, and you think doing XYZ at all is a Bad Idea™, is it valid to post an answer saying so? You aren't answering the question, but instead, arguing the question's validity. You could do this in a comment, but I don't think comments carry enough weight on occasion.
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An answer that's just "Don't do that!" is useless, unless the poster is asking whether it's OK, in which case it's just mostly useless. It should always be accompanied by reasons. An answer that doesn't respect the poster is also pretty much useless (just downvote the question and have done if you feel that way). However, an answer that tells the poster how to do something stupid, just to strictly answer the poster's question, is worse than useless.
Yes.
...that wasn't very helpful in answering your question, was it? If someone asks a yes/no question there's always an implied "and why" even if they don't ask for it.
Even if the original asker only wanted one data point with no reasoning behind it, showing the reason for a yes/no answer ma...
@enderland actually [about] now drives the "Q&A" idea home better than the FAQ IMO
@enderland Its not the answers i have a problem with though most of them are not good
@gnat The OP does not have a choice. It would appear that there management saw the power struggle and decided to put the other guy in charge to solve that issue. So choosing not to do it is not really an option for the OP unless he wants to quit. And I HATE Quit your job answers unless there is a really good reason. I dont like that my coworker was promoted above me is not a really good reason
6 weeks ago, I accepted a job offer for a senior position based overseas and signed and returned the offer letter. The onboard date was determined to be 2 weeks from now. Everything seems good. I am in the process of making international relocation, selling my house, furniture, cars...
Yesterday...
part of me wants to answer it with an answer basically saying, "look, if you have this much trouble asking a clear and concise question on a Q/A forum, it's likely your requests to your boss are equally frustrating and confusing"
i would have thought such a large re-working would detract it wildly from the original post
and on the one about the boss questions saying, "what do you think" and "Go look it up" are some of the best answers you can get when learning, makes you have to actually think about things and apply yourself, rather than being a mindless drone
@RhysW exactly it is not that he is not answering the questions his answers are not what the OP was looking for. I have had bosses that would not make decisions, and ones that would not help out which are different problems than the op has and why I suspect that the question was made popular
6 weeks ago, I accepted a job offer for a senior position based overseas and signed and returned the offer letter. The onboard date was determined to be 2 weeks from now. Everything seems good. I am in the process of making international relocation, selling my house, furniture, cars...
Yesterday...
@Chad the only one i could see would be along the lines of legal implications of them "screwing him over" by adding extra conditions to his employment after saying he had the job
@Chad choice for OP is to drop false assumption of being a peer (that's a don't do it part) and learn to manage up instead (that's a do this instead part) pretty much like as is was presented at MSO discussion
@RhysW We can help with some legal stuff. IE Tell him to get a contract
@enderland I agree but this question boils down to "Tell me that the company is being stupid for expecting me to work with this jerk that sucks compared to me"
6 weeks ago, I accepted a job offer for a senior position based overseas and signed and returned the offer letter. The onboard date was determined to be 2 weeks from now. Everything seems good. I am in the process of making international relocation, selling my house, furniture, cars...
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Someone on DBA said they had a programmer trying to run a cursor in a stored procedure which would run each row of a 500k row table through 8 additional sprocs each
@gnat but if the op knows he needs to manage up, then he doesnt have a question, becuase he knows the answer, i dont see it working as a tag to be honest
@RhysW that's not quite a compelling logic. It's reasonable to assume OP knows nothing at all (including but not limited to) how to tag their question properly - otherwise, they wouldn't be asking to start with...
That makes it perfectly OK for answerers to pick and assign appropriate tags. did you ever do that as a reader / answerer? i did multiple times
@gnat im not talking massively comprehensive guide, im tlking like the little tag line that shows when you hover,
or evan an example of its usage, but i understand about the time thiing
@Chad
i dont see why
Plus, according to local labor law, the first 6-month employment with new employer is probationary. In other words, either employer or employee could terminate the employment without any reason or cost, e.g. severance package, within the first 6 months of employment.
this bit is relevant to the question
thats true regardless of the reference check or not,
and
I will certainly opt in the reference check process
@RhysW yup that's the hard part. Guys posting questions often don't even know these tags exist; the wording should be such that after someone adds the tag, OP would say oh yeah that's it
in that sense, good tag is often half of an answer
or a protection of mis-answers. 99% java-me tagged questions at SO benefit quite a lot when java tag is removed from these, go figure
oh and, in our case, excerpt/wiki wording would also better be compliant with / complementary to / cross-referenced with whatever is there for "manage-down" aka your good old management :) "proactive (aware? productive?) workplace relationship (relationship?) with someone at higher position; with your direct or indirect superior / manager"
6 weeks ago, I accepted a job offer for a senior position based overseas and signed and returned the offer letter. The onboard date was determined to be 2 weeks from now. Everything seems good. I am in the process of making international relocation, selling my house, furniture, cars...
Yesterday...
I recently referred a colleague from university to my workplace, after he was hired and completed a probationary period, I received a cash payment for referring him. I want to give him some of this payment for making it so far, is this out of line?
@enderland If you change your mind, then try to edit it on Programmers if you can and let me know if you would like me to Migrate
@BenBrocka told me that his opinion is highly in line with the regulars in the Water Cooler so he told me to just drop in here and get your opinions before migrating stuff. He clearly has a lot of respect for you
it is more trust than I have with the people on the Whiteboard I will tell you
eh. I guess we're going to disagree here. Maybe part of the reason I think htis is workplace applicable is I've wondered the exact same thing regarding referral bonuses..
I recently referred a colleague from university to my workplace, after he was hired and completed a probationary period, I received a cash payment for referring him to our company.
I would like to give some of this money to my colleague, as a way to tell him "nice job", but I have concerns on wh...
if there is support for migrating it, that's cool, but I'd rather it get migrated here than cross-posted (especially after a mod says "no" to migrating it)
@Jim I think I would say that buying someone dinner is pretty sufficient (though this isn't even needed) and that you could get into serious trouble with your legal/HR department in some cases
I know we've got internal policies on gifts/etc
obv. this might not necessarily be internal, but... wouldn't really want to gamble on that if that was the way I went
@enderland unless the person is your boss/subordinate or in a position to give a member of your family a contract or something similar but that is kind of an edge case
Yes.
...that wasn't very helpful in answering your question, was it? If someone asks a yes/no question there's always an implied "and why" even if they don't ask for it.
Even if the original asker only wanted one data point with no reasoning behind it, showing the reason for a yes/no answer ma...
