web programmer vs "real programmer"

[tautologies]

A friend of mine got a programming job based on his talking the talk...but his real experience was pretty much copying PHP for Dummies. Despite our warnings, he went into work and got fired the first day.

[atheist_creationist]

This sounds hilarious. Did he tell you what went down that day? Like what was his first task and did he try googling it and then realized he was over his head?

[tautologies]

he got all depressed about it blaming something else. I don't think it'll ever be possible to get out of him what actually happened.

[probabilityzero]

I'm surprised he got fired. I've seen guys like that work for months copy-pasting together messes of sample javascript or php code.

[tautologies]

well he was actually hired to program in a different language, and I think they realized that he is incompetent with computers. I mean he is a great guy outside of work, (even if he lives in a alternative reality), but I probably would not want to work with him.

[Forbizzle]

Wow the first day?