School’s In
295 words.
Apparently it’s not enough that I am made to suffer through monolithic config files all day at Cerebral Locomotion. Now I am made to be the Visual Basic tutor to the boss’s pre-teen daughter (I actually don’t know how old she is, but pre-teen is my guess).
The boss, Julio (that is not his real name), has informed me that he would like for his daughter to be able to pass, by the end of the summer, the same programming "challenge problem" that I took during my job interview a year ago. Back then, I found the problem somewhat challenging since despite my assurances to Julio in my first phone interview that I was quite the Visual Basic expert, at that time I had not done a thing with Visual Basic in my life. (To this day, I still don't know why I was hired. Although knowing what I know now, it is reasonable to assume that Julio hired the first person who actually agreed to work there.) Anyway, I would find the challenge problem laughably easy right now. But expecting a (admittedly fairly bright) pre-teen girl who is starting out from scratch to be able to master the concepts of Object-Oriented Programming, State Machines, Sprite-based Animation, and other such advanced concepts in a couple of months is a bit ludicrous. (But then, there is no limit to the ludicrousness potential at Cerebral Locomotion.)
As if tutoring Julio's daughter was not bad enough, Julio himself has expressed an interest in "brushing up" on his programming knowledge. Keep in mind, this guy has not done any real programming since the days of the Apple IIE. I shudder to think what might happen if he were put behind the wheel of a modern application development environment. *shudder*
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