This discussion reminds me of a number of IT job interviews I had where the tech questions asked of me were delivered in a smug, condescending tone, and if I didn't know every single facet of their infrastructure when I walked through their door, then I must be a dolt and a fool. (I only had 13 years in IT across multiple hw and sw platforms.) At one interview right here in town, the interviewer actually smirked and grinned at his manager when I didn't know some arcane and obsure sw app. After 90 minutes of this,, I never heard from them again. Good. I wouldn't want to work with such people anyway. The archness and smug attitude is way too prevalent among IT professionals and that is one reason I said goodbye to all that.
YMMV On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Bruce Labitt <[email protected]>wrote: > As the person who may or may not have been the object of the OP, allow > me to make a comment. > > I found the linked document to be both condescending and informative. > For a while I was quite irritated. I think I'm over it now. > > There are better ways to ask a question so that one can get good > answers. As others have noted, usually ill framed questions come about > because the OP doesn't have quite have a handle on what is going on. > Often these questions can be exploratory in nature. I don't think these > kinds questions should be crapped upon. How else can one learn? And > yes, I have regretted hitting the send button many a time, where I've > ill framed a question, but, hey I get over it, so others can too. > > So if someone doesn't want to help, don't. If you can't be bothered, > that's ok, I don't mind. If you'd like to help, please do. I'm sure > the questioner would appreciate a helpful answer, even if it includes a > request for clarification. > > -Bruce > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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