Ok folks, got one for you. You’ll love this.
There is this nut – a whacked out person who thinks he knows everything about computers. This nut knows little about programming, dominates meetings, and touts himself as a senior level genius eventhough he sounds like an idiot every time he talks. At one point he worked on the team but because of his behavior they moved him to another project.
The client then went into fits demanding that this nut be put back onto the project not because this nutcase had some special value. But because the client paid for some training the nut had and now wants to recoup the cost eventhough the nut is clueless, abrasive, and codes like a first grader learning to write. Moreover, the client inappropriately used funds to pay for this training and now he has stirred an internal investigation after throwing his fit.
Anyhow, the nut then blackmails the contracting company into a pay raise and gets reassigned to code. So it was suggested that we assign him to the client to be directly tasked by them and they can put up with his crap. Moreover, I heard rumblings from other team members of an anonymous tip to the investigators since no one else got a paid raise.
By the way we only actually do work 1 to 2 hours a day. The rest of the time we spend dealing with this kind of crap.
Is this the kind of stuff we have to put up with in IT? Is this what it is becoming?