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Faringdon:
What do you do when a fellow employee wants to sabotage, or crash a project?

I was working for a co who had a high temp SMPS sent in for fixing….a “guy” (research fellow in power electronics) was working on it for a week…..he coudlnt fix it and couldn’t say what was wrong. So Then they sent me in to fix it…….i fixed it in a day…..it was easy……the “guy” , when I realised the inductors were too low value, told me “don’t bother fixing it” (kind of whispering it to me, like tempting me to crash the project)….but I told him I would…he then ran to his desk and brought the correct inductor calc…I thought…”howcome you never told the boss this last week”. …..You told me not to fix the inductor….then when I start fixing it…you then immediately show the correct calc  that fixes it….but you withheld this from the company last week…only when you saw I was fixing It did you start coming forward with the solutions…
What do you do?
MK14:
Ask them why and what is going on?

If they have been working at that place, for a lot longer than you.  They may know lots of things, you don't.

Dealing with management, is NOT always, 100% straight forward.  If a number of workers, suggest care, with some/a managers/projects/stuff, there could be good reasons, for what is going on.

Some things, could be best left alone (poisoned chalice).
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/poisoned-chalice

Example:
You work for Elon Musk, and a completely crazy new big project comes up.  Which, by the sound of it, sounds totally impossible/implausible and impractical.  It is probably best to steer clear of that new project, if you can.  E.g. A new Hyper-space time machine, made out of hot-air and hyper-nuts juice.
rstofer:

--- Quote from: MK14 on October 04, 2022, 06:54:47 pm ---Example:
You work for Elon Musk, and a completely crazy new big project comes up.  Which, by the sound of it, sounds totally impossible/implausible and impractical.  It is probably best to steer clear of that new project, if you can.  E.g. A new Hyper-space time machine, made out of hot-air and hyper-nuts juice.

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The guy who started Tesla and made electric vehicles go high end and mainstream?  Or the guy who introduced Artificial Intelligence to self-driving cars?  Or the guy who started SpaceX and has a pretty good track record compared to his competitors (there are at least 10 with little recognition).  PayPal is involved here somehow...

I would jump on any project he comes up with.  Win, lose or draw, it would be a hell of a ride.
MK14:

--- Quote from: rstofer on October 04, 2022, 11:51:16 pm ---The guy who started Tesla and made electric vehicles go high end and mainstream?  Or the guy who introduced Artificial Intelligence to self-driving cars?  Or the guy who started SpaceX and has a pretty good track record compared to his competitors (there are at least 10 with little recognition).  PayPal is involved here somehow...

I would jump on any project he comes up with.  Win, lose or draw, it would be a hell of a ride.

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Some people think he is GREAT, others, NOT so much.  What we call in the UK, Marmite (Love or Hate it).

The Thunderf00t video channel, doesn't seem to think too highly of him.

But you are right.  True visionaries (without getting into a debate, as to, if he is one or not).  Sometimes succeed, and sometimes fail, on  a per project basis.  Which doesn't stop them from being true visionaries.

The point I was trying to make, was that time-machines are generally considered to be impossible projects.  So joining such a project, might not be too worthwhile.  Depending on ones aims in life.
Alex Eisenhut:

--- Quote from: rstofer on October 04, 2022, 11:51:16 pm ---The guy who started Tesla

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tesla-Motors
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