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Straight out of Office Space and the TPS report. This person may exist at your workplace. They are a non coding type, they pick up a phone and call tech support when they have a question. Quite often they are a woman. A person who has wiggled themselves into a very secure well paying position in a company, because they are the only one who can do anything with an interface from the late 90's.

Database query tools are there favorite haunting ground. They can't make any revisions to the wonky, unfriendly software, but they gain power by lording over the mis entered data, and sending middle mangers out to scold you about your mistakes.

Straight out of Office Space and the TPS report. This person may exist at your workplace. They are a non coding type, they pick up a phone and call tech support when they have a question. Quite often they are a woman. A person who has wiggled themselves into a very secure well paying position in a company, because they are the only one who can do anything with an interface from the late 90's. Database query tools are there favorite haunting ground. They can't make any revisions to the wonky, unfriendly software, but they gain power by lording over the mis entered data, and sending middle mangers out to scold you about your mistakes.

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[–] • 1 pt

Don't rat him out like a good goy, let him leech off the megacorp.. who cares?

[–] • 1 pt

I care. Every time he needs to do something i end up in 2+ meetings getting him to do the work correctly.

I am supposed to be his backup, he is supposed to be mine.

I complain all the time that he refuses to learn linux, windows, cloud, JS, python... Fuck he has to have someone else write bash for him!

I sent him a basic bash ---for i in (array); do (action)-- and he asked me what i was trying to have him do and if it was safe to run.

[–] • 0 pt

Hes probably old and about to retire. I personally wouldn't give a crap and just ignore him, I honestly give 0 shits what others do in the workplace and just mind my own business.

[–] • 0 pt

If it wasnt wasting hours of my time that i want to waste elsewhere. I wouldnt give a shit.

Our AIX DBA is the same way. I couldnt care less what he can or cant do.

[–] • 0 pt

You will be him one day is why.

[–] • 0 pt

Not gonna happen.

I learned 2 very important lessons that most Americans still dont know.

  1. Always own it when you have made a mistake or were wrong about something.
  2. Admit lack of knowledge on a topic if you dont know shit about it.