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They expect you to teach them in a way that's immediately understandable to them, and if they don't get it immediately, it's your fault. They get offended if yo
by feoren 2y ago
They expect you to teach them in a way that's immediately understandable to them, and if they don't get it immediately, it's your fault. They get offended if you tell them a single thing they already know, but also blame you if you fail to tell them anything that they don't already know but need to. They'll complain about a lack of documentation, and then won't read it when it's there, and if they do, they complain that it's too hard to understand.
I've had a coworker ask me how to do something in a general way, and tell me "please don't tell me 'it depends on the context'. I just want to do my job and go home." Of course, it did depend on the context. Everything does. This is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience.