attempting to put a datamodel together. Last I checked he was still reading
the help files for the data modeling program.
-d
----- Original Message -----
From: "C. Hatton Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: RE: supervisor by default
> Deanna,
>
> Everyone has to have at least a brushing experience with this kind of
stuff.
> It builds character ;)
>
> Seriously though, you need to look at this as a mentor, not a supervisor.
> It doesn't sound like the uppity-ups are thinking that you are going to
> responsible for this guy's every movement, only pointing him in the
> direction that he needs to be. My honest advice would be to send him to
> HYPERLINK "http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com"http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
> and make him read through it all.
>
> Then hand him the latest CFWACK (ColdFusion Web Application Construction
> Kit) and his lunch and tell him to go home read it, come back tomorrow
ready
> to code.
>
> Tomorrow give him some old pages you've built and tell him to read through
> the code and translate the CF into English and explain what each of the
> pages does.
>
> If he can't do this then hand him a scrubber and tell him to do the
toilets.
>
> Okay, the toilets thing might be a little too much to ask, but all my
> management experience came from my time in the Navy. :)
>
> Good luck! Be sure to vent your rants here so you can get other useless
> advice!
>
> Hatton
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: supervisor by default
>
>
> <cf_rant>
> Okay, so I'm not a supervisor. I don't pretend to be a supervisor. I don't
> aspire to be a supervisor. I'm just a lowly code girl.
>
> But, I am currently a supervisor by default. One of our departments
decided
> that since we couldn't do their project "fast enough" (in other words the
> director of their department stuck them in a low-priority slot) that
they'd
> just hire their own student to do the project. Great.
>
> So, it turns out this student has no CF experience, no practical database
> experience, doesn't seem to know HTML fundamentals, and has written a
whole
> bunch of code by checking out a laptop from comp sci, downloading CF 4.5
> (we're currently migrating to CFMX from 5.0), creating an access
datasource
> (we use Oracle), and writing crapola code. *sigh*
>
> So, we met with him on Friday and find out all this, and talk to my boss,
> who agrees to let him work on one of our computers. Guess who gets to try
to
> figure out how to train him?
>
> On top of that, he said he'd come in yesterday afternoon. He never showed
> up. I emailed him. He said he'd come in at 7:00 this morning. It's 9:25.
He
> just showed up.
>
> Anyone got a heaping helping of patience and good will I can borrow?
>
> </cf_rant>
>
> --
> Deanna Schneider
> UWEX-Cooperative Extension
> Interactive Media Developer
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