Seriously. I get the impression that some people don’t like to engage with me at work because I try to be precise to the necessary degree. I work with software, so the degree of precision I need to use to express the behaviour of a system is decently high. I do a conscious effort to be only as technical as the context requires, often opting for being not technical at all when engaging people whose job is not technical.
A few days ago I was in an email chain that went something like this:
manager: we need to add <non-existing functionality> asap.
me: is it for <other team’s software> so they can <do thing>? If it is, we did <just landed functionality> for that. <other team’s software> doesn’t need to check <condition>, they can just <do thing> and <our team’s software> will handle it gracefully.
other team’s programmer: that’s what we do.
other team’s manager: so we do <opposite of what I described>?
other team’s programmer: yes
If that’s what passes for normalcy, I don’t understand the appeal.
Seriously. I get the impression that some people don’t like to engage with me at work because I try to be precise to the necessary degree. I work with software, so the degree of precision I need to use to express the behaviour of a system is decently high. I do a conscious effort to be only as technical as the context requires, often opting for being not technical at all when engaging people whose job is not technical.
A few days ago I was in an email chain that went something like this:
If that’s what passes for normalcy, I don’t understand the appeal.
Psrhaps other team’s programmer has learned to just smile and nod with that particular manager?