Trevor was puzzled. On Monday, his new programmer, Dennis, arrived at work. Trevor had been waiting for HR to fill this position for three long weeks. The backlog on programming the CNC machine was building and Project Managers were getting testy with the delays.
But Dennis had been working all morning on a program that should have been completed in twenty minutes. It was becoming clear that something was wrong.
Mustering his courage, Trevor pulled him aside only to find out that, though Dennis had been trained at his previous job, he had only copied existing programs without generating any new code. As a manager, Trevor was now stuck in a situation that could have easily been prevented.
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You see, Dennis had produced printouts of CNC routines that passed muster in the HR department. He just never revealed that those routines had been copied from existing programs. A simple 20 minute test to create some original code could have prevented this bad hire. -TF
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