My prior replies may seem like "rants" but they are "nice" compared to what was said to me and how it was said by some of the old time engineers that I grew up/was taught by/under.
Those SOB's were NOT nice and they didn't care if they hurt your feelings when they told you to go back and do your homework when it came to "asking for help". Especially, when it was in an area that you had NO background in or knowledge of. Rest assured, when they got thru with you, you DID have a much better background and/or knowledgeo f the particular techology.
At the time, they told you to "go figure it out" and there wasn't an internet or readily vailable message boards handy to learn from/ask of. They also usually put you thru at HORRIBLLY uncomfortable witch and/or scavenger hunt to find every concieveable piece of info needed to spec out the bearings and/or do the load life calcs.
You can bet that you NEVER asked vague or poorly defined questions EVER again - and more importantly, YOU LEARNED how to do the proces RIGHT the next time. You at leaste cam armed with the necessary info needed to do the calcs - they would should show you were the formulae could be found but they NEVER did the calcs for you.
Frustrated? perhaps. Venting? maybe. But when people ask for highly technical help with non-specific and/or poorly defined input, how do you show/tell them how to do it?
Sometimes niceties can help. Sometimes, absurdity speaks volumes. Sometimes, malicious banality works wonders.
Sometimes, the "student" will even ask "HOW TO I DO THIS?" as oppoed to "what is the answer?????"
The "how to I do this?" gets a TOTALLy different set of responses with a totally different attitude than the " what do I use???" inquiry.
Some learn faster one way and other learn quicker the other.....
Care to try again, albeit with more design input data?????  |