Re: proper response?

ghelbig@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Aug 23, 4:03 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:55:58 -0500, Spehro Pefhany



<speffS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:12:05 -0700, the renowned 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 good"?

Would you want him checking it under the assumption the designer (you)
is infallible, or do you want him checking all the stupid little
things that are the ones that usually go wrong (not the big
complicated things, which are usually foremost in one's mind during
the design process).

Of course "Goodbye" is another possible answer, and it's your
perogative.

What I said was "Perfect. Thanks."

He found a couple of goodies, too. I always check my own stuff as if
an idiot designed it.

John

His answer sound exactly like something I would say.

Now, if he said "I will check it as if a senior citizen designed it",
I would have beaten him senseless with my cane. ;)

G.


At least it wasn't designed by those dammed Geico 'cavemen'


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