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Proactive engineers

Overheard during a conversation at work today (don’t know who was being talked about, but it was someone external):

He’s a nice guy, but he’s not really a pro-active engineer.

I think I’d rather be a nice guy.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 at 5:26 pm and is filed under Musings, Rants. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Proactive engineers”

  1. Believe it or not, I was actually placed on one month probation at my last job for not being Pro-Active enough. When I asked my bosses how they would assess whether I’d become *more* proactive at the end of the probation… they went into the next room, and came back with: “We’ll let you know”.

    I quit the next week.

    Anon
    18 hours later

  2. Nonsence, every engineer should fix problems before they are even known about. Goes with the job, doesn’t it?

    -Dx

    D
    20 hours later

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