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To me, both responses are the same. Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" comes to mind. You're saying exactly the same thing but in a bureaucratic form
by esotericn 7y ago
To me, both responses are the same.
Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" comes to mind. You're saying exactly the same thing but in a bureaucratic form.
Reading other posts here the message I get is that a lot of people work in dysfunctional environments in which everyone's at each other's throat or something.
My default assumption would be that obviously my colleague isn't being an asshole...
- LeonB 7y agoThe majority of times people have said “why don’t you just...” to me the answer is that if they understood what $thing was trying to do they wouldn’t have asked the question. They’re not being “assholes” they’re just headed toward it from a wrong assumption (they’re assumption is that they understand what $thing does, but they don’t.) so my advice to anyone suggesting just do $x is that they need to try to understand what they don’t understand about $thing, don’t even worry about $x.
- esotericn 7y agoSure, so the answer is 'because I'm doing $thing and $x doesn't work'. They're literally asking _why_. If you take it as a statement i.e. 'just use $x' then that's a completely different matter.
- LeonB 7y agoIt would've been easier to explain $thing without having to stop and consider $x. Effort was expended for no gain.