We've all heard somebody say something so stupid that we then flipped the bozo bit on them. After a long day of going nowhere with my code, I thought it might be nice to get a little comic relief and vent at the same time (and try my hand at creating one those "hot questions"). So here is my question:
- What is the best gem that you've heard?
- Or for the ones that don't mind letting the rest of us know you are human, what did you say?
- Did that person ever come back from it for you?
- If it was you who said it, what did you have to do in order to get back to an honorable status?
- How do you deal with these people in a productive way?
I'm not talking about end-users or non-technical people saying something ignorant. I am talking about other programmers or engineers that really should know better.
In my case, there is this one "engineer" (liberal use of the word) who has the cockiest attitude, but cannot back up his behavior (a review of his code was an endless WTF after WTF session). He recently said this in a very matter-of-fact tone:
TCP is going away. Everyone is using HTTP now, so TCP will be obsolete soon.
Sigh. There was nothing we could do with that guy. He was taken off our team and made somebody else's problem.
I know there are some similar questions, but it looks to me this is still different enough to hopefully not be closed :)