Re: proper response?

On Aug 23, 3:12?pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just finished designing another board, a waveform generator, and I
asked one of my guys, my most-recent hire actually, to look it over
before we gerber it. He said "I really don't have my head into what I
was doing, so I'll take a day or so and give it a full check assuming
that it was designed by an idiot."

What should I have replied to a statement like that?

John

Sounds like a Slacker, or a Prima Donna to me.
Either way, as long as the job gets done and nobody's feelings are
hurt....

You might coach him that management opportunities are seldom offered
to folks who engage in this sort of behavior, even if they are
talented. Though it does occasionally happen in spite of, or even
because of it.

-mpm

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