While being able to communicate is important, I believe the bigger question is:
Is his lack of communication ability hampering your ability to do your job satisfactorily, from both his and your perspective?
It's sounds like he is more of an idea person than an implementer, which is why he n...
I am a recent graduate who has been working in IT for several years. I enjoy supporting systems, deploying new infrastructure, and can troubleshoot a wide variety of IT problems with a wide variety of technology. I am coming up on my year anniversary at my big corp sysadmin job and would like t...
It really makes you think about the user, basically, from a design perspective - you'd be surprised how many engineers/coders/anyonemakinganything just don't do this
i have no feelings towards it, its a tool, i use it to talk to people through chat but purely because thats where everyone is, when the next thing comes out and everyone moves there ill go to to stay in contact with them. i have no attachment to the site, unlike some people who will feel the need to defend it til it dies
@Benbrocka by which i mean, just because i have a hammer i dont see everything like a nail. each tool has its place in the tool belt and thats what i use it for, when a better tool comes out ill replace it
which in many cases (corporate software for example) isn't a HUGE deal but it contributes to people enjoying their job. Well, normally the opposite is true...
@enderland Yeah. If you use a tool often enough, one of three things happen: you hate it (why does this can opener never work right), you forget it's even there (most door knobs) or you love them
I honestly find the idea of "think of the user" to be so completely useful in everything I do
Going into an interview? Who is the "user?" it's the people interviewing you - you are marketing to THEM - not the career coach, not the friend you talked about the job with
running a meeting? who are the people there? what do they need? etc. oh that the rest of the world would care about this... :-)
@Chad I think it's interesting that the number of avid users almost exactly equals the number of 200+ rep users.
...and that the number of +2000 rep users is almost the same as the number of +3000 rep users.
It's as if there's a large valley of users between 200 and 2,000 that are avid (based on whether or not they visit often?), with only a small percentage of those people participating in activities that give them enough rep to go into the list of top users by rep.
As for the daily users dip and recovery, I remember being told that previous peaks were primarily when a single question would spike and get shared around.
in my case I don't have enough time or expertise to really get tremendously involved in workplace.SE, aside from the occasional upvote / question search (most of the things I've thought of are already covered), and I spend most of my effort on the SE network at SuperUser / Root Access chat
but given unlimited time I would definitely contribute more here
@enderland I hang out at SuperUser at work, and after work I pretty much forget entirely about StackExchange, unless I'm either having a problem, or one of my acquaintances from Root Access chat has an ongoing issue that I want to help with
While being able to communicate is important, I believe the bigger question is:
Is his lack of communication ability hampering your ability to do your job satisfactorily, from both his and your perspective?
It's sounds like he is more of an idea person than an implementer, which is why he n...
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