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  • May 30, 2014 at 3:09 PM #774588
    an
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    [quote=flu][quote=all]I don’t get it. If that is a side project he should not be working on it (i.e. contacting you) during business hours. And if it is not a side project someone likely made a mistake assigning the task to your coworker.[/quote]

    He’s a junior person assigned to the project. No idea who/what they are doing….There’s nothing wrong with not knowing how to do it… But what is very funny is, if this was a test of how well someone can adapt to new things, this would be the contrarian indicator.[/quote]This is also what separate engineers from developers or worse yet “devs”.

    May 30, 2014 at 4:02 PM #774590
    CDMA ENG
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    [quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=all]I don’t get it. If that is a side project he should not be working on it (i.e. contacting you) during business hours. And if it is not a side project someone likely made a mistake assigning the task to your coworker.[/quote]

    He’s a junior person assigned to the project. No idea who/what they are doing….There’s nothing wrong with not knowing how to do it… But what is very funny is, if this was a test of how well someone can adapt to new things, this would be the contrarian indicator.[/quote]This is also what separate engineers from developers or worse yet “devs”.[/quote]

    No it doesn’t…

    I have met plenty of engineers that want to be spoon fed as well…

    CE

    May 30, 2014 at 10:53 PM #774606
    an
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    [quote=CDMA ENG][quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=all]I don’t get it. If that is a side project he should not be working on it (i.e. contacting you) during business hours. And if it is not a side project someone likely made a mistake assigning the task to your coworker.[/quote]

    He’s a junior person assigned to the project. No idea who/what they are doing….There’s nothing wrong with not knowing how to do it… But what is very funny is, if this was a test of how well someone can adapt to new things, this would be the contrarian indicator.[/quote]This is also what separate engineers from developers or worse yet “devs”.[/quote]

    No it doesn’t…

    I have met plenty of engineers that want to be spoon fed as well…

    CE[/quote]
    You mean devs 🙂

    May 31, 2014 at 6:53 AM #774614
    no_such_reality
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    [quote=flu]I learned a new acronym today from a colleague when I told him about this…

    RTFM….

    I would have never known….[/quote]

    You should warn him about the ID 10 T errors.

    BTW, I think he did quite well in adapting to a new request.

    He PICKED up the phone and GOT answers!

    All joking aside, the behavior you saw is really common place in Gen Y and millenials. One person does, 100 copy it from them.

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