June 23, 2023 at 2:13 am
May experience with overseas contractors has been anything but stellar, most of them are extremely sub-par but yeah they are cheap to hire and of course you get exactly what you are not paying for and that is quality 99 times out of 100. So yeah, I am talking poor-quality at best and it simply goes downhill from there unless you are extremely lucky.
June 26, 2023 at 5:40 pm
I find hiring anyone is very hit and miss. Whether in tech, or on the ranch.
June 26, 2023 at 6:26 pm
Michael L John wrote:Jeff Moden wrote:I'm thinking that you need to be more clear on the job description that you use to hire people... a LOT more clear. For more than just the most obvious reason, this is some scary stuff you just posted. 😀
Hire? These are all contractors. We send out a "we need this done" request and they give is people.
Three words.... BWAAA-HAAA-HAAA!
Michael L John wrote:I guess we need to clarify the documentation.
Apparently so! 😀 Lordy!
I'm not telling you anything new but I have to say it out loud for others. You need to do code reviews early and often, even if the code is all in-house.
He he he, the old rule still applies, be careful what you ask for and more importantly how you ask for it!
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One could partially phrase this as "linguistical ambiguity" 😉
June 27, 2023 at 12:51 pm
I find hiring anyone is very hit and miss. Whether in tech, or on the ranch.
Well said. This thread, as well as many others, are filled with interview horror stories.
The thing I wonder is, ok, these folks didn't get past our screening. How many places WILL they succeed at?
Without starting a huge discussion of incompetence at many many organizations, and excluding the politicians, how many completely unqualified individuals are holding positions where the decisions they make affect peoples lives?
Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
To properly post on a forum:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/
June 27, 2023 at 2:57 pm
Without starting a huge discussion of incompetence at many many organizations, and excluding the politicians, how many completely unqualified individuals are holding positions where the decisions they make affect peoples lives?
Probably lots. Too many companies don't train people well, especially managers. I think too many people get some responsibility and we let them continue, even when they don't prove successful or skilled. Then we don't improve their skills.
Shows how much slop is in business.
I'd also say that I look at the reverse side often as well. We screen out people because we don't like the way they look/talk/have experience/etc. when they could do the job. I've had some people who could do a job well, but they were very socially awkward or didn't communicate well. I wondered how they got hired, and think they might struggle to get hired again, but they do a good enough job.
I've learned to appreciate diversity more and differences, not being as judgy when someone doesn't work or interact as I wish they did. If they accomplish the tasks well, that might be enough.
June 28, 2023 at 12:27 am
I've learned to appreciate diversity more and differences, not being as judgy when someone doesn't work or interact as I wish they did. If they accomplish the tasks well, that might be enough.
Yeah the old adage holds true, there is usually more than one way to skin a cat. The question just boils down to, did it get done in a timely manner, did it produce the level of quality needed (or better), and could they easily repeat this with similar situation and/or a different situation?
My dad found out that sometimes the best folks for a job are not in the job they would excel the most at, and it takes good management to spot this and then make suggestions and facilitate the movement to the position that they and the employee feel that the employee would function that best at. He did this with his company, where they reduced the number of employees by about 25% but increased the output by about 50% and increased job satisfaction by leaps and bounds because everyone was really enjoying what they were doing.
July 10, 2023 at 10:22 am
I've just reported one of those AI-generated "SQL Server is good because" essay posts as spam. Do others agree that this is the right thing to do?
July 10, 2023 at 4:09 pm
Phil Parkin wrote:I've just reported one of those AI-generated "SQL Server is good because" essay posts as spam. Do others agree that this is the right thing to do?
Yes. I've reported some of those already.
My take on this is that those are socially engineered side attacks, building "presence without content"
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July 11, 2023 at 10:51 am
Phil Parkin wrote:I've just reported one of those AI-generated "SQL Server is good because" essay posts as spam. Do others agree that this is the right thing to do?
Yes, but do you have a link?
Sure. Here are a couple I've reported recently:
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/exploring-the-power-of-sql-server
July 11, 2023 at 2:53 pm
For what it's worth, I agree... those "presence with no content" posts (as Eirikur has si very appropriately labeled them) are an abuse of both AI chatbots and this site.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 11, 2023 at 4:51 pm
My dad found out that sometimes the best folks for a job are not in the job they would excel the most at, and it takes good management to spot this and then make suggestions and facilitate the movement to the position that they and the employee feel that the employee would function that best at.
I've been on the recieving end of that boat, put in a job that I didn't enjoy, with no clear guidance on just WHAT I was suppossed to be doing. Hated it, finally got moved back to what I'd been doing before and was much happier.
July 11, 2023 at 5:33 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:Phil Parkin wrote:I've just reported one of those AI-generated "SQL Server is good because" essay posts as spam. Do others agree that this is the right thing to do?
Yes, but do you have a link?
Sure. Here are a couple I've reported recently:
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/exploring-the-power-of-sql-server
Thanks, I banned the user. Looks like more whack-a-mole
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