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TG's behavior strikes me more as trolling...the example you gave could play out like: NC: “After the first week he hasn't interrupted me with questions every
by optimiz3 13y ago
TG's behavior strikes me more as trolling...the example you gave could play out like:
NC: “After the first week he hasn't interrupted me with questions every hour, unlike some of the previous interns.”
TG: “Which of the previous interns?”
NC: “Bob and Alice.”
TG: “Why were their questions inappropriate?”
etc.
Folks like TG can be sociopaths, where a game is being played with the aim of making the target spend more effort on the response than it takes to ask the question.
There are also chat-bot AIs that use interaction patterns like this to keep the subject engaged as long as possible.
- gizmo 13y agoI suppose it's possible TG is a sociopath, although I don't know anybody who deliberately trolls like that. I still think it's far more likely that both people are poor communicators in that TG wants to get a precise and accurate answer from somebody who doesn't think about language that way and that NG is oblivious of the fact that TG is looking for a precise answer and will get frustrated with replies that don't answer his questions.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoIf you start giving them action items based on their objections it changes the value equation for a socio-path. TG: Which of the previous interns? NC: Unclear, go find a list of all questions asked by all interns and rank them by frequency. Normalize the list where the most questions is rank 10 and the least rank 1. Then place the new guy on that scale. Let's have that done by Friday, kay?