We had a student employee that was just the same. In the first week he kept arguing about how to do DB design with Deanna. Ha! We booted him out of the office.
Jason started with us as a student and while he was a smartass it was in a good way and he always asked us how to do something if he didn't know how to do it. And he didn't know jack about HTML standards, CF, Oracle, CSS or anything. But he asked the right questions, listened to what we told him, and knew how to look up stuff for himself on Google. Now he's full time with us. Don't put up with shit. But at the same time it takes months of little projects building up basic concepts to get a person broken in. I think I never even told Jason about DTDs until 6 months in. Which was when he started to really try cool stuff with CSS. Good luck. On 10/5/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW, the first project I gave him was to "go through some of the html > code that we've generated here, just to get an ideas of the standards we > have". That took him all of 5 minutes, then he stands up and says that > "he's got it, he programs EXACTLY like I do, and that made him happy". > I was apprehensive, but decided to give him a site, already cut up by > our designer, to code strictly in html. After 20 minutes, he hands it > back to me. It was finished, but what a disaster the code was. No alt > tags, no heights and widths, height attributes in percentages, heights > in tr tags, had no idea what css was, much less how to use it, etc. > just a mess. I ran in through the W3C validator and it failed > miserably. I then pulled out the page that I had coded - the same site > - and ran mine through. Guess who's was better? So, I sent him back to > the drawing board with that, along with a list of standard programming > practices for html sites. His excuse to me was that the GD had cut the > site up wrong and that messed him up. "Would I like to have him get his > GD buddy to cut up the site correctly?" - UGH! Are you frickin' kidding > me? Did you realize it is just your 3RD DAY? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:176025 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
