I'm surprised the author allowed Brian to run his BS as long as he did. Although B is clearly in the wrong here I'd suggest the author should take a look at his/her willingness to play along as far as it went. Maybe some self-esteem problems?<p>Good read overall though. Makes me feel better about my own efforts to learn and improve. Maybe I should seek out a mentor as my approach to learning is 180° from Brian's.<p>The balls on that guy though! Did he really think he could pull it off? It's clear sometimes I have an empathy deficit. Wow.
I find these stories somewhat amazing. I could not in a million years imagine taking a job that I had no real idea about how to do. How is this scenario supposed to end exactly? What has to happen for this to work out? What's the plan when you can't do your job?<p>Can anyone at all offer insight into this? Would this person have some kind of delusional plan, or simply not think that far ahead? I'm genuinely curious about how the minds of people that can do this work.