As an engineer, ill frequently get an email or slack message asking me to do something Im employed to do but haven’t done in months. I have to drop my current work and try to relearn something that is now slightly different in unexpected ways. And its already broken too, thats why I got the message. Def ruins a day.
I recently received a question along the lines of “Hey do you remember [project we did roughly 18 months ago]? What firmware version did we use on the controller?”
Someone just assigned me a Jira issue for a project I haven’t been on the team for since at least 2 and a half years ago. We didn’t even use Jira when I was on that project.
I don’t get it. He hates his job? Is that the joke?
I think it’s just a human reaction to work sometimes. Like, it’s clearly your job and why you’re employed, but part of you is also like:
As an engineer, ill frequently get an email or slack message asking me to do something Im employed to do but haven’t done in months. I have to drop my current work and try to relearn something that is now slightly different in unexpected ways. And its already broken too, thats why I got the message. Def ruins a day.
I recently received a question along the lines of “Hey do you remember [project we did roughly 18 months ago]? What firmware version did we use on the controller?”
Someone just assigned me a Jira issue for a project I haven’t been on the team for since at least 2 and a half years ago. We didn’t even use Jira when I was on that project.