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I have been a professional programmer/developer/whatever since 1980. I wrote my first working program in 1975 (it worked first time, and the rest is history).
I know a lot of stuff, I have forgotten more stuff than a lot of people know, I have a PhD in CS and have worked every position (in five countries and two continents) from Junior Programmer on a mainframe to Director of Software Development in a couple of companies doing everything from expert systems to language interpreters to tape robot control. I have written standards documents at a lot of companies and trained many, many developers in HTML, XML, multi-threading, and other useful stuff. I have now taken a position as a Senior Software Engineer in the government as a sort of retirement job (the medical and pension plans are great!).
Then a member of my team insists on plugging React into our huge web-based intranet system, breaks everything in sight but still insists he is right and we should all change everything to fit his new idea of how things should be done. In addition he spends at least half of every code-review explaining why our established naming conventions should be changed to the way he does it because he read an article by someone who worked on Farcebook who suggested some conventions.
My question is:
Where is the best place to bury a body? Just asking for a friend. 
[Update] Our wonderful manager has moved him to another team. The complaints have already started.
Now I am really asking for a friend!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 11-Mar-20 10:15am.
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body?
In the same place you keep the documentation. From what I've seen, nobody ever goes near that. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Dump the body in a hot spring and allow it to dissolve.
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Forogar wrote: I have now taken a position as a Senior Software Engineer in the government
Then a member of my team...breaks everything in sight
Where is the best place to bury a body?
Sadly, since he also works for the government, that will be the only way to get rid of him.
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You don't hide it, You hang it out in plain view as a warning to the next upstart.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Pour encourager les autres.
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Pig farm. Cut it up, they'll eat the bits quite happily. Apparently.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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That was Brick Tops favourite disposal method in the film Snatch 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Hmm. That sounds a good idea if killing them first wasn't the plan! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Won't make any difference in the end, or so I'm told.
Amazing these things you learn when you grow up next to a dairy farm.
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As a Dutch saying goes: Quote: de beste stuurlui staan aan wal
(the best mates are ashore) 
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I refer you to Simon Travaglia (AKA the BOFH) for ideas on dealing with management, beancounters, consultants, HR droids, "users", and colleagues.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body?
IMHO, that's the wrong approach. I suggest instead promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.
/ravi
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That would work sometimes, but from reading this case it seems more likely to produce the PHB from hell.
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Exactly
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: IMHO, that's the wrong approach. I suggest instead promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.
Senior project manager?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've seen such things too often to count. The more inept the employee, the faster they seem to get promoted at times.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.
Company Historian, perhaps?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I work for butchers, I could probably sell it as pork.
However, if you make it look like an accident you may not have to hide it at all.
However, that may be too... Humane.
If you really want him to suffer, without breaking any laws, tell him you really need the application to print a report using Crystal Reports and he's the one who should make it because no one else is smart enough.
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Sander Rossel wrote: you really need the application to print a report using Crystal Reports in VB6 and he's the one who should make it because no one else is smart enough.
FTFY!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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And the bulk of the business logic must be done in VBA, with no plugins allowed.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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We're going to need some censorship here 
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Quote: using Crystal Reports
Even I'm not that cruel! Hmmm... that's an idea though.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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