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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • No, there is a difference between treating as just a 9-5 job, and wanting to sit and not do what you are contracted to do because you’d like somebody else without qualifications to do the work for you. Not only is that just being a shitry human it is negligence on an engineers part.

    As you work toward your PENG there are ethics and expectations of a Professional Engineer, and personal legal consequences if your work injures somebody by negligence.

    The counting person wasn’t that they couldn’t count past 10, it was that assemblies are 3d and you rotate them, zoom, hide/show parts etc, and they couldn’t figure out how to tally without losing track. A problem solver (which is what an Engineer is supposed to be) even with a disability, would jot on a notepad with components names already selected/counted, or simple tally marks as they went.

    As I mentioned this wasn’t a person stuggling with a disability (because I have worked with many) it was somebody that had come up through a system that did it for them and assumed that’s how you just keep going in life. Maybe chatgpt did their homework, maybe they had charm and had others do everything for them. But its been a common. Thing more recently especially COVID onwards.

    We even had one guy make up support ticket numbers and pretend he was working hard all day, meanwhile its instagram and random, browsing.


  • Dude, i gave the extreme example to illustrate, but I have watched the change. The new recruits want others do do the work for them when they get stuck. Like i mentioned in other replies ut wasnt isokated to counting, it was expectation.

    My coworker was helping a guy who got stuck so was showing him the steps to solve instead of watching for next time he went on Insta. That’s not learning disabilities it is expectation that somebody else finds out the fix.

    The person, as Engineer, asked IT to complete and engineering project for them, because they had another project due. Not only would that not be kosher for an engineering sign off, its also an ask that is ridiculous



  • I have a son with Down Syndrome so I know about learning disabilities. It wasn’t just that situation it was their whole approach to the job. As a hired engineer they get standardized training and then are expected to work on projects. This person (and many new recruits) would find that it was easier to call tech support, and then they’d ask us to complete the project and then and send the a file back. Thus me saying dude please talk with your manager.




  • Its one example, but the new engineers coming in expect people to solve their problem while they check their insta. Literally had my tech guy deployed to help a new engineer, as our guy demonstrates the software steps to solve the issue the guy needing help is doing personal social media checks… He though people just come do it for you when you get stuck. We have even had young supposed IT staff call in for support and they clearly have no skills on solving issues.



  • It does till you experience it, and think wtf. Like a sudden dropoff. So maybe all the phone bans across countries is a good thing.

    I had a degreed engineer ask me to help them tally the count of screen objects because they kept losing track. There were just over 10 items. I told them they needed to discuss the issue with their manager because clearly that’s a problem.

    A solution if you lose track while counting could be hand tally on paper, colour code the objects as you tally, use the system and select them all and read the selection count. But to call tech support for manual counting help is crazy.






  • I can be out in 30 seconds. My wife hates it, LOL. Especially because I can self check and give her an accurate prediction of when I will be tired enough for sleep.

    I.e. she might say “what do you want to do tonight? And I’ll say " we can watch a short episode of a show or a quick board game, because I have 45 minutes before I’ll be asleep”

    Main things are routine:

    • I eat a balanced diet of protein, fats, carbs. And I don’t often snack on sugary foods.
    • I don’t go to bed unless I’m actually tired.
    • I wake up about the same time every day. Usually with the sunrise.
    • I don’t have worry, or anxiety, that would keep my brain busy at night. Everything can be tomorrow’s problem.
    • if my body is tired out, but my mind isn’t, I’ll put in earbuds and listen to a podcast in bed , but with everything set for sleeping. Lights out, eyes shut, comfortable in the covers.