Decanting advice for noobs?

originally posted by MarkS:
Decanting advice for noobs?I'm expecting this topic to crop up anytime now...
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Do noobs improve with decanting? How much time should we give them? I'd always heard that periodic thrashing was the preferred method.

Mark Lipton
 
Something I didn't know...

Contrary to the belief of many, a noob/n00b and a newbie/newb are not the same thing. Newbs are those who are new to some task* and are very beginner at it, possibly a little overconfident about it, but they are willing to learn and fix their errors to move out of that stage. n00bs, on the other hand, know little and have no will to learn any more. They expect people to do the work for them and then expect to get praised about it, and make up a unique species of their own.
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Urban Dictionary in re n00b

. . . . . Pete
 
originally posted by Peter Creasey:
n00bs, on the other hand, know little and have no will to learn any more. They expect people to do the work for them and then expect to get praised about it . . .
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Sadly this is also the key to success and an instant VP title at every large corporation where I've worked.
 
How does one decant oldbes in such a way as to remove the sediment of their built-in responses while preserving the little value that remains in their declining wisdom.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
How does one decant oldbes in such a way as to remove the sediment of their built-in responses while preserving the little value that remains in their declining wisdom.
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Holding a candle.
 
I always recommend shoving a cork in it and then agitating the hell out of 'em. Works for some crusty over-the-hill types, too.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
How does one decant oldbes in such a way as to remove the sediment of their built-in responses while preserving the little value that remains in their declining wisdom.
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Holding a candle.
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Brilliant!
Best, Jim
 
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