She told me she was using the quickstart guide (the last 3 FUCKING weeks) which contained some test project with specific use cases. After a few weeks of coding and posting a initial project to git I asked her if she could show me the code of the API she made so far. After catching her on WhatsApp a few times I realised this wasnt gonna go anywere. Great, lets start! Oke maybe first some R&D, she had to reaeach how to use the Twilio API. We were given some project by our boss, and a freelance programmer helped us set it up on Trello. She had Microsoft Edge in her toolbar, and some picture of a cat as a background. But when I met her I quickly found out she didn't even have a coding editor installed and when I advised one she was "scared of virusses". Which sounded kinda crazy to me, but also fun so I rolled with it. Sorry for the long rant, it was a long stressful day.Īn intern I was supposed to lead (as an intern) and work with. Tomorrow we'll decide what to do with him. So the kid can't focus on a single task, over-engineers everything and doesn't feel he can learn anything from developers with more experience, doesn't want to obey commands, and also likes to lie to manipulate others. I ask about the equal team members thing, and me not being a mentor any longer, the boss goes wtf, saying he never said anything about that to him. I call up my boss and ask him what did he say to the intern, and he says: "nothing much, just explained the project a little bit and how it fits in the grand scheme of things.". I tell him to finish the phase one of the project and start with the phase two, and I leave home again. Our company has a flat hierarchy model, so he tells me he doesn't feel he needs a mentor, that we are both equal, and that I have no idea how to work in a team, and then proceeds to comfort me on how human interaction is hard and that I will learn it one day. I ask what did the boss say to make things okay all of a sudden, and he tells me he said we are a team now. Once I got there, I meet the intern, and he tells me everything is okay. Boss talks to the intern before I managed to get to the office. Since I was working from home, I quickly pack my things and head to the office. I call up my boss and tell him intern wants a meeting. Few days later, I check up on him, and he tells me he feels he is doing all the work and that I don't contribute to the project. Intern says okay and assures me he got it now. I explain it to the intern that we have to do the boring task first because we can't proceed with the next phase of the implementation without the necessary data from the phase one. So, instead of doing the assigned tasks, he decided he should do a "design" for a feature I told him explicitly not to do, since it is going to be designed by the design team later on. I explain the intern the first phase, break it down in small tasks for him and return to my projects.Īfter a couple of days of no words from the intern, I decide to check up on him to see how is he progressing, only to hear him complaining the task is boring. Intern starts overengineering a generic solution, so I make out a best architecture that conforms to the business requirements and I explain it to the intern why are we going to use such approach and tell him how we are going to do it in three phases. We start out with some fuzzy requirements. Got assigned an intern to mentor him, with an explicit order not to do any of the legwork for him. HR: Okay both of you can go and don’t use this type of terms in the future it doesn’t make good working culture. HR: But he said something else like he was teaching you how to use GIT Intern: haha, no it means that I should pull the changes made to the files before I can push the changes I did to the code from my computer. HR: What does that mean, sounds like a slang for something sexual. HR: Did he said, “Pull before you push” to you? HR: Was he sexually harassing you today at any time. HR: Okay, let me call the intern and let see if he says the same. Me: Yes, I was teaching the intern how to use GIT. HR: You said, “Always pull before you push”. Me: I have no clue what I said to the intern so please read it out. I have the words that you said to the intern. Me and the new intern all we talk about is Coding, Apps, and TV-Series HR: We have received complain that you have been sexually harassing an intern.
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