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Millstoning in Electronics?
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Faringdon:

--- Quote ---When a workplace gets that dysfunctional, better get the heck outta there.
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Thanks i agree, but watch the poisonous reference you get when you do ship out.
coppercone2:
when treez posts and the posse shows up


floobydust:
Back in the day, millstones were the way to travel. Nowadays, in this thread "millstoned" seems to be the way to ... travel?

The notion that young fresh talent is better than experienced engineers is the usual HR and management mistake of not understanding knowledge workers.
I've mentored a few EE's including one that was considering buy a soldering iron for home use. He'd never tinkered. Another two were on their cellphones texting all the time.
The "gimme the answer" generation, from watching a lot of TV, Internet, video games, using google - they can't take the pain of not knowing something and having to figure it out.

Let the company save money- hire cheaper, less experienced and then spend years doing product development with no results.
Faringdon:

--- Quote ---Another two were on their cellphones texting all the time.
--- End quote ---
Thanks, years ago i had one that would do 5 mins of soldering, then revert to making a big solder pool lake on the ESD mat, or going on his mobile phone.
But He was lauded as the new Messiah by the company owner.
The owner could see him distrubing me all the time, but encouraged him to pick my brains out at every  opportunity...my work inevitably suffered delays as a result of being his "servant" mentor, and the owner would lambast me for that.

...the millstone  insisted on sitting on the lab table and making me work through him...but eg once he refused to twist his signal wires like  i told him...so i then had to come in for 20 hours over the weeked (unpayed), and rebuild what he had done for a customer demo on Monday, as his board didnt work.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Faringdon on February 19, 2023, 09:25:25 pm ---
--- Quote ---Another two were on their cellphones texting all the time.
--- End quote ---
Thanks, years ago i had one that would do 5 mins of soldering, then revert to making a big solder pool lake on the ESD mat, or going on his mobile phone.
But He was lauded as the new Messiah by the company owner.
The owner could see him distrubing me all the time, but encouraged him to pick my brains out at every  opportunity...my work inevitably suffered delays as a result of being his "servant" mentor, and the owner would lambast me for that.

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When you find yourself in situations like that, just run away. Whatever the reason - even if you are partially responsible, be it due to your behavior, not setting limits, whatever... this can't end well.
When a company does that, it's usually to show you that you don't matter anymore. Get the hint and go.
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