Hello, users! π
Today I wanted to share one of the worst experiences I had teaching a coworker, I was his 'mentor' when he joined the team. I was ...
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Crap... what an individual...
I guess sexism is still a thing in the Tech industry... although I haven't had any experiences in all my work experience π€·
Could be sexism, or could have just been he didn't like the OP?
Haven't seen this comment before!
I thought since the first minute he had probably some trouble with having a woman giving him mentorship, I was the only one in the whole office he avoided and ignored in purpose (in work matters only, for any other 'social' thing it was totally okay to ask me...).
Weird.
Well I'm glad you don't have to deal with the bugger any more! π₯³
Yea, yea, definitely! It does not seem like it though
sexism will always be a thing with random shitty individuals, doesn't matter the industry
True!
I was working helpdesk and was mentoring a new hire.
Meta-professionally it went wrong almost immediately. We were inbound yet phone notification sounds were on, chronically late, messy inbox, paperwork disaster. Technical-wise, said she understood yet once asked to take a case flunked it. Always had an excuse. In the end she was let go when someone else from the team had to mentor her and backed my statements to the manager. Apparently the mentee had been complaining that I was the reason for her lack of progress.
What this taught me more than anything is that occasional defensiveness happens to the best of us, but I'll give a wide berth to people who are defensive as a rule and don't seem to want to learn. Tech requires constant improvement and if you are unable or unwilling to be taught by others, it's a bad sign.
Sorry you had such an experience!
Indeed the worst part of mentoring is noticing the unwillingness to learn of the other person...
I would rather take this experience as a lesson learned.
Good team leader would gather a meeting with HR and discuss the possible improvements of recruitment process to avoid cases like these in the future.
So ultimately it's a win in your side, anyways.
Moral.. be like DesirΓ©.. not davos....π π π
There seem to be a few different cultures within tech workers; some tech workers are very comfortable asking questions and being humble and knowing that they don't know. Other tech workers have a sort of bravado or a deep fear of being found out that they know nothing, something like imposter syndrome.
Usually that doesn't work out so well, not even if you're a great programmer who rewrites an entire system in Smalltalk.
A senior tech's son was hired for my team once. No qualifications and didn't enjoy the field. He worked but he was not cut out for the needs of that team. Nepotism is real in the industry.
Totally, and it was such a really bad attitude, trust me...
Que hombre mas bruto por Dios!!!! π€
Β‘Y maleducado!