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> I remember working for a gent years ago, who was stressed out that my output was so low. He declared "I started this business in my living room let me show yo
by tdeck 2y ago
> I remember working for a gent years ago, who was stressed out that my output was so low. He declared "I started this business in my living room let me show you I can do any job in this building"
> He came to my workspace, where I had 20 servers stacked on my workbench. He looked at them. Attached a single power cord. And then wandered off telling me he could definitely do the work if he wanted to.
Frankly, all this anecdote tells me is "don't behave like a condescending asshole". If he'd said the same thing but then managed to do some non-trivial aspect of your job for a few minutes, I think that would still have been a bad tactic. It's just as possible to have humility about skills you lack, and to lack humility about skills you've maintained.
- protocolture 2y agoNormally I would have 12 or so desktops there. The server stacks were well above his height. He probably could have, in his day, wired up 20 odd desktops, got them going, and maybe shave 10 minutes off my batch time. But he really had nfi with the servers, the stacks were 2ft higher than him already, they all had dual power supplies, lots of idrac ports. He absolutely would have shamed himself if he kept going. And the reason he hired me was the ability to reason and read vendor documentation. They also take ages to boot compared to a desktop. So yes I think ALSO dont behave like a condescending asshole, but if he understood what I was doing he wouldnt have needed to leave his office and make a fool of himself anyway.