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Originally Posted by jasin1
I had a guy that worked with me years ago that would come and ask me “ how do you think I should do this or that?…I would stop what I was doing …look at the situation …come up with a plan and say…. “ I would do this ,this and that and do it this way etc” ..spend time explaining and show him how I would do it with my years of experience
After I finished he would say “ well I looked at it and I think I should do it like this”
I’d look at him and say “ wtf did you waste my time then? Do you just like to hear people talk about something when your mind is already made up?”
Then I’d shake my head and go back to work
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I had a friend like that. One day he called me and said "can you come over and look at me car, it won't start". Now this guy was so clueless I knew asking questions would be a waste of time so I drove the couple of miles to his house. I told him to turn on the headlights and turn the key to start. Headlights came on, he turned the key, headlights dimmed then went out and heard a click. When he turned the key off the headlights were very dim.
I said, you have a dead battery. He said, no, that's not the problem. Didn't challenge me to why I could be wrong, didn't ask me how or why I came to that conclusion. My thoughts were well then I guess you know what's wrong and this is just a test? Are you pulling some sort of prank!? Whatever, I didn't have time for it so I turned, walked away and drove home. He called me and asked why I "just walked away without saying a word". I said "to keep from slapping you for wasting my time". A few hours later (after calling a tow truck, and a garage replaced the battery) after spending a lot of unnecessary time and money and apologized for not listening.