We've got three new coworkers in our office. All three I have some responsibility to train. Of the three, two of them had relevant education experience, but fresh out of school with no real-world work experience. The third has about 10 years of programming and automation experience....but we're a civil engineering company, so almost none of his work experience is relevant.
Of the three, the first two are beyond hopeless. I hadn't been in the office 30 minutes yesterday morning before the sound of one's voice made me want to scream. He will go barreling down a path on a project that he SHOULDN'T, and spend an hour doing unnecessary work, because he won't stop and ask a question. And then when he DOES ask questions, it's something that had he spent 32.5 seconds thinking about it, he could have figured out on his own. And then he wants to finish your sentence for you when you try to help him. Listen here, dumbfvck. If you "know" the answer well enough to cut me off, why the bless are you wasting my time asking me? Oh yeah....because you're wrong virtually 95% of the time. The second guy is so far over his ski tips he doesn't even recognize it - but can't answer a question to save his life. In our office, if you're one thing, it better be confident. None of this "Well.....I think....maybe...." crap. Either you know or you don't. Figure it out and quit wasting everyone's time. If he doesn't start improving soon, he won't see 6 months in our company. It is honestly to the point that if I'm in the office, 80% of my time is spent babysitting these two oxygen thieves. The third guy? The one with ZERO applicable experience? I spend less than a quarter of the time helping him than the other two. Significantly less. He asks questions when he needs to, and they're smart questions. He's getting it. He's going to be fine.
