Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Didn't know where to put this with no RTT, so here is my random rant for the day.
So in one of my classes, we have 3 small design projects to do (each takes a few hours... a few minutes for design and a few hours for debug). In my group, its me, another guy who's 24 and one guy who is about 55 or so. The old guy doesn't know crap, his designs suck (they are more guess and calibrate until they work, absolutely no theory or design behind it, and the designs are so bad they barely work or barely meet spec).
Ok, no biggie, I can do this myself (and the other 24 year old, who I usually split the project work half/half with him and the old guy supervises). But the old guy decides to waste an hour of my time today trying to calibrate his "design" (i.e. threw a bunch of numbers on and keep changing it till it works) and tries to get me to help him with his work, when I could just do it myself.
Again, ok.
He's a little slow, i.e. he will go file->exit or edit->copy and edit->paste et al ... everything about how he does things is slow, re-invents the wheel on every single thing when he's asking me or the other 24y/o to explain how we did our design.
But here is the annoyance... the old guy has to feel "respected" ... if we make a mistake or overlook something, he gets all fathery and starts lecturing us ... gives the whole "the generation these days are so spoiled, so stupid, so useless et al" ... when its us who is doing all the design, test, debug and basically the whole shabang. So... ontop of doing the work, afterwards, we have to tell him what a valuable member of the team he is and say that he brings intangibles and all that crap.
Elders these days. Sense of entitlement, doesn't do their due dilligence and always comes unprepared, et al.
(this is true, but partly made in jest of the "kids these days" that pop up from time to time cause i'm feeling the need for mild entertainment)
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