Re: proper response?

On Aug 23, 12:12 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?

Is he an engineer?

If so... Tell him that engineers are social retards, not designer
idiots, so he doesn't need to take such an extreme POV on a design.

It'll go right over his head, but you can laugh inside.

.

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