I'm getting sick and tired of people who can't deal if they aren't in front of a keyboard

[wyvrn]

When I started managing people, my communication skills got much better. The leadership role you mentioned should really help bring them out of their shell.

 

[EyeMWing]

Hah, I used to be like that. Then I got kicked into my present spot as lead on a software development internship at school. Yeah, I'm a bossy, stuck up motherfucker, now. It's supposedly kinda funny, one second I'm writing code, the next I'm saying "This sucks, Drew, come here and click this dialog box 15,000 times" [We have a portion of our application that sends bulk emails via Outlook. That's the only way we can interface our exchange server. Unfortunately, this requires clicking "yes" on a dialog box for every freaking message. It sucks. I'm working on replacing that as my current project] The next second, I'm hitting on the hawt data entry chick. After I get bored with that, I make some asinine documentation.

//This is experimental and isn't in the training subset, don't mess with it until you teach yourself how to do it, or wait for EyeMWing to write it into the training subset

//OMGWTFBBQ DEPRECATED CODE. Left for copy/paste harvesting purposes.

//Diagnostic method. Note the egotist used his own personal data for the test case.

//If this condition is reached, the data entry girl needs to be spanked. Refer this case to EyeMWing for "disciplinary measures".

And then when I'm done with that, I go back to coding. Yeah, I'll survive in the real world
I know how to sexually harass, I know how to delegate menial tasks, I know how to make the other devs laugh while still getting the point across.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Welcome to the world of modern competitive education, where you are identified by number, like the army. Your GPA.

 

[EmperorIQ]

yes! hire me, i have a 2.76 gpa, but i've worked in groups, and I prefer working in groups, and I can work in groups! please hire me as an intern. oh wait, you guys want 3.5+. Well just kidding, those with 3.5+ deserve an intern spot more than I do. I spend a lot of my time screwing around, while they study.

 

[EvilYoda]

This will only become more and more prevalent, with the supposed increasing demand on academics. I've slipped up these last few years and I'm not where I thought I'd be in life, but I know that in the corporate world, after a year or two, my abilities combined with my personality will speak louder than any piece of paper might for me.

let's hope

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
This will only become more and more prevalent, with the supposed increasing demand on academics. I've slipped up these last few years and I'm not where I thought I'd be in life, but I know that in the corporate world, after a year or two, my abilities combined with my personality will speak louder than any piece of paper might for me.

let's hope

I think the key is to leave school with a fat internship and pray they give you a paid position, since they already know your work and skillset. That way, come time for a new, "real" job, your degree is already prettymuch irrelevant.

 

[axelfox]

STOP YELLING AT ME!

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I think the key is to leave school with a fat internship and pray they give you a paid position, since they already know your work and skillset. That way, come time for a new, "real" job, your degree is already prettymuch irrelevant.

No internship. Moved across the country to a state where there were exactly two alumni from my college, neither in my field.

Got a temp job at the Cadillac of investment management firms a month after moving. Hired 4 months later, one week after putting an application in for an opening in another department from the one in which I was temping.

Who needs internships when you work your arse off?

ZV

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
This will only become more and more prevalent, with the supposed increasing demand on academics. I've slipped up these last few years and I'm not where I thought I'd be in life, but I know that in the corporate world, after a year or two, my abilities combined with my personality will speak louder than any piece of paper might for me.

let's hope

I think the key is to leave school with a fat internship and pray they give you a paid position, since they already know your work and skillset. That way, come time for a new, "real" job, your degree is already prettymuch irrelevant.

Pretty much. If you work a co-op or internship at a good company and do well, they'll often offer you a full-time job once you graduate. In fact, if you don't have a job lined up by the middle of your senior year, you're probably going to have a hard time finding one at all in a technical field... at least the way the market is right now.

 

[bhanson]

Kranky, if you don't mind me asking, how much do they get paid? I'm in my 9th month with a local company as an Intern, I think I'm doing alright, but I get paid next to nothing.

If that's too personal I understand.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: bhanson
Kranky, if you don't mind me asking, how much do they get paid? I'm in my 9th month with a local company as an Intern, I think I'm doing alright, but I get paid next to nothing.

If that's too personal I understand.

Answered via PM.

 

[DaiShan]

I hear ya, especially on the writing. Management finds it acceptable to have "functionally illiterate" (this has been stated by the head of the IT department) developers. They don't care that the wording in their programs do not make sense, so long as the code does. Oh, just my take on the situation, if they have to communicate with more than just the people in their office it is much more efficient to have them use something like jabber than to have them walk down to someone else's office or leave them a voicemail if they are on the phone.