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Oh I hate managing people who are lazy and slow on the uptake. HATE.
"This needs to do 'X'. Copy the behavior of the 'Y' notification, except without the check to see whether to apply it."
A full workday later, he comes back to me trying to figure out what a "notification" is, having gotten mentally trapped in a source file where the activity will need to take place, without EVER having looked up Y, despite repeated attempts to tell him about Y, despite it being mentioned in an email about the matter.
(And a search in the source code on "notification" alone would've turned up the crucial stuff. Hands-down.)
He was worried about, won't it do this - or that - or the other - show it to the wrong person or flood people's screens?
No, the behavior for notifications is already written...you just need to tap into it.
*sighs* Yesterday I felt guilty, for culling the "simplest" of the tasks for him, and giving excessive time to do it. Today, I'm glad I did...and I feel guilty for being glad, but you get what you get.
"This needs to do 'X'. Copy the behavior of the 'Y' notification, except without the check to see whether to apply it."
A full workday later, he comes back to me trying to figure out what a "notification" is, having gotten mentally trapped in a source file where the activity will need to take place, without EVER having looked up Y, despite repeated attempts to tell him about Y, despite it being mentioned in an email about the matter.
(And a search in the source code on "notification" alone would've turned up the crucial stuff. Hands-down.)
He was worried about, won't it do this - or that - or the other - show it to the wrong person or flood people's screens?
No, the behavior for notifications is already written...you just need to tap into it.
*sighs* Yesterday I felt guilty, for culling the "simplest" of the tasks for him, and giving excessive time to do it. Today, I'm glad I did...and I feel guilty for being glad, but you get what you get.
