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>This behavior is not competent, or smart if you ask me One job I had, my manager decided early on that I was a complete idiot and insubordinate. Freely asking
by perl4ever 5y ago
>This behavior is not competent, or smart if you ask me
One job I had, my manager decided early on that I was a complete idiot and insubordinate. Freely asking any "dumb" question that came to my mind was a no-no, and even more so was asking other people to verify what my manager told me - it was seen as undermining their authority.
A later job, my manager formed the opinion that I was really smart in the beginning, and so when I fail to understand something, they blame themselves for not being able to explain. Sometimes I feel bad they are so self-critical.
"Fish can't teach you about water"
Even if people are not consciously intending it, though, being bad at knowledge transfer is in everybody's self interest. Perfect communication would facilitate workers being interchangeable cogs.
- judahmeek 5y agoBut wouldn't perfect communication also level the playing field in terms of asymmetrical information, which would also be in everyone's self interest?
- llampx 5y agoClassic prisoner's dilemma
- jbuhbjlnjbn 5y agoI left out the option of doing it on purpose, conciously or unconciously, but you are right, it could be that as well. I think in the long run it will hurt you to actively refuse to help your colleagues, because they are smart, they will pick this up and be reluctant to work with you and share information with you as well. Not helping the people you work with has its advantages too, like more time and more focus for your own stuff, maybe even more carreer opportunities, but for me it is simply not an option anymore. I tried that, but it made me negative and miserable, so I gave it up. Now I try to be the engineer I personally would like to work with on a daily basis. If people get it, great, if not, it doesn't matter too much anyways. I do it for myself as well.