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If a device is clearly malfunctioning and the socket is burning, do you stick a fork inside the socket?
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I hate it when managers try to "help" by getting involved directly. Most of the time they are just nuisance. Many of my debugging sessions are prolonged by my manager. It goes something like this:
Manager: hey we got a problem in production. Let's check it together.
Me: No, just 1 person is enough, also easier to focus.
Manager: No, let's do it together. 2 is better than 1
Me: *big sigh because I know he will just be in my way*
Me thinking to myself: okay, it looks like X is malfunctioning, and X is controlled by Y, so let's check Y, should I add some more debugging logs?
Manager: Hey man I think the issue is Z
Me: No, Z is working fine because blah blah. I checked it already. See this, it's expected.
Manager: oh right, that's true
At this point I lost my thought and had to start over
To all managers: if you want to support your dev, please just let them work in their preferred way, provide them enough information, point them to the right person. Get involved only when you're asked. -
@Xamenyap Another option could be to pretend you’re pairing and speak your thoughts aloud so they feel less inclined to interject. It’s hard to know when someone’s in the middle of a thought if it’s not verbalized. 😅
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@AmyShackles This, if you struggle with nontechnical personnel believing themselves to be knowledgeable, just explain your thought process without skipping over any details, as if you were teaching an intern. They get tired and decide to do something else in a matter of minutes.
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Voxera116412y@FuckiOS which is why non technically savvy managers should not have accounts with such access.
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