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I understand the frustration with badly asked questions, but not sure I’d want to work with someone who views conversations with coworkers as “offering little v
by tehsauce 6y ago
I understand the frustration with badly asked questions, but not sure I’d want to work with someone who views conversations with coworkers as “offering little value”
- quickthrower2 6y agoHe didn't say that he views conversations with coworkers as “offering little value”
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- graton 6y agoThe article says: > Not Important and Urgent tasks are nasty attention thieves. They shout out to you in immediacy, but offer little value in return. Nothing about co-workers.
- m463 6y agoI think he tried to prioritize it correctly: Important and Not Urgent tasks ... Also included are building relationships with others and planning ahead. Not Important and Urgent tasks ... and over-talkative coworkers.
- ThePadawan 6y agoI've had jobs where I would 100% agree with you and jobs where I would 100% disagree. In that sense, I sort of want to congratulate you to only have encountered productive, collaborative work environments, and not backstabbing, infighting, untrusting ones.
- redis_mlc 6y agoIf you stay in a software career long enough, you will reach a level where this will become a daily reality. I don't have an answer for what to say to "software engineers" who don't know what an RFC is, or what EXPLAIN is, or what a database transaction is.
- zwbetz 6y agoI should clarify. I mean badly asked questions, to mean that someone has asked a lazy question, and not done their due diligence before asking for a hand-hold. I am all for helping someone with a good question. I do it daily.