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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
But what I do admire about him is that he is more than willing to listen to me and hear me out, even if he knows the entire time that I am doing it wrong.. then when I need to correct it he won't give an I told you so, but more hints at what I did wrong.. like "Well what would happen if we poked the data on this table before we converted it?" type stuff.. he shows incredible patience. He will teach me things, and has taught me things, that I have no idea about until it is an after thought.
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I worked with/for a guy like that on one of my internships, great relationship. He had the experience, I was up-to-date with the theory - it worked great. That is a great relationship to work in. On more than a few internships, and working with this old guy (which I don't mind helping him out, just as long as he is willing to listen and not trying to act like a father when someone is helping him out) its been the me, the young person, who had to show patience to teach this.
The point/parody/inspired partially by a rant, was that respect is mutual and earned through what you do - not given due to age.