Re: "Kind? Why? I'd have fired his useless ass."
Oh, horseshit. The useless ass was hire to code. He refused to code. He's thus useless to the company, and no longer on the payroll. Unless you can point me at a company that will happily keep me on the payroll for not doing the job I was hired to do, of course. Note I said "company" not "government" ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
