Or, you ask a simple question and suddenly you are in charge of a new project. Smh
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This happened to me. It actually started with, "I accidentally told this wifi router salesman guy at a trade show that I would listen to his sales pitch. Now he's coming to our office in an hour to give it. Can you sit in on the meeting with me so I'm not alone? You know a lot about wifi, right?"
I didn't even know what the meeting was about. I assumed he was trying to sell our office a wifi mesh system, which we already had. It wasn't until about halfway through that I realized that he was trying to sell us these routers+source code so we could integrate them into our product line and resell them. And then I realized how many of our problems that would solve, so I started asking questions. Next thing I knew, I was the lead engineer on a wifi mesh system.
It was a super fun project, though. And I got lots of raises and a title increase for taking it on.
Rare to see a tech salesman story that's actually positive lmao
That’s actually a positive outcome! Mine is usually trying to fix a symptom of a larger problem no one wants to admit exists.
I thought wifi mesh systems were completely unthinkable in an enterprise environment considering their poor performance.
Not sure exactly what metric you are referring to for poor performance or in what conditions the mesh would achieve the poor performance you are referring to. As a former lead engineer on a mesh router system, I can assure you that mesh systems are capable of very high performance if done correctly and set up properly. Just about everyone uses them as far as I am aware. You wouldn't have one wireless access point for a whole massive building.
I’m imagining some kind of massive modified radio tower devoted to supplying wifi to a building directly below
You wouldn’t have one wireless access point for a whole massive building.
No, you would use multiple access points, wired and likely powered with ethernet.
I noted a software bug in a project close to release (I'm not software, and I was just helping another guys with that project) I noted it to my boss and he put me in charge to fix it before the release. All my work for the last couple of weeks has been triangulating with software guys to get patches and see if it works, meanwhile my actual work has been accumulating and nobody is helping me with that
I feel that in my soul. Best of luck getting it across the line.
By the end of the meeting the question will still not be answered
And a recurrent meeting will be created at an inconvenient time for all
How’s Friday 4:55 sound?
Am or pm?
"Yes"
By the end of the meeting you have 10 more questions and no answers and more meetings to discuss the new questions
Too often a conversation on slack turns into "can we have a zoom to talk about this?" And I'm like why just read and answer my question.
I think a lot more people than I assumed are not actually that good at processing written words.
Likewise when theres a company meeting which clearly and simply lays something out and people have questions.
Example: “We are switching payroll providers, This in no way impacts you as all direct deposits have been migrated. You might see a new note on the deposits from the new payroll company.” A bunch of hands go up… Its always the same people
How could you possibly have a question?!
This has "parents turning a question into a lecture" vibes
I'm nearly 40 and my dad still does this. Drives me insane
Some things truly never change, haha
How old are you?
Uhh, why does that matter?
Isn't this a common experience?
