One of the guys that works for me is pretty smart, but he did the strangest thing this Friday. I got to work at ~9:30, and he was there, which is unusual since he normally shows after 10. Two hours pass by, and he says that he has to leave to go pick up some friends at the airport, and then he leaves. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but since we were trying to freeze the code by the end of the day, and we had been working towards this all week.
He is new to the project and to Struts, and was having problems earlier in the week and I was being less than helpful, mainly because he wasn't "thinking for himself", and that was frustrating the hell out of me.
A couple of hours go by, and one of my peers asks if I am going to call and find out if the guy is coming back. Nope. So, he calls him. I already knew the answer, he wasn't coming back. I didn't want to know why. I didn't want to talk to the guy, he didn't want to talk to me. So, I stayed and finished his code. Part of which was my responsibility in the first place that I had delegated off to him.
So, as a boss, I made a couple of mistakes... Unfortunately I can only think of one mistake. I let myself get frustrated at him. I know he is not without blame and for a change I am not going to beat myself up about it. Humorously, I am not going to beat him up either.
Posted by carl at June 1, 2003 01:10 AM
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