The Daily WTF

Matt enjoyed teaching. He mentored junior devs and interns with no technological backgrounds, and helped them to be experienced programmers. He believed that employers should hire based on attitude and then train employees up on skills.

That was before he met Derrick.

Matt wasn’t entirely clear on how Derrick became an junior dev at their company. Maybe he was pushed by his parents or grandparents to get into that “new tech field”, or maybe he was someone’s son, or a family friend of an executive.

To say that Derrick lacks technical experience is an understatement. Matt’s seen Amish farmers at the local market with a better understanding of programming. He proudly uses an antique flip phone, because that way the government can’t track him. The company uses two factor authentication via an app, and bought him a phone which supports the app. He leaves the phone at his desk and

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