greysplaining
For any of you who are not aware of the term greysplaining is when somebody older than you tries to tell you something and since you already know everything there’s no way that anything that they have to say can be relevant.
I have certainly in my time accused my elders of this or at least put up patiently with it.
I have apparently arrived at the age where everything I say is greysplaining to somebody. Even people who I had previously thought were bright enough could benefit from somebody else’s experience. It would be easy to be irritated at being ignored, but I actually find it sort of amusing. I know what that experience costs, and anybody not bright enough to learn from somebody else will pay that price themselves. And I am fine with that. I may even stick around and help pick up the pieces. Actually no I won’t I don’t care that much.
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Shut your piehole, old man. :D
This is a passage of sorts, you understand. Next you’ll become entirely invisible …
I see you just fine. And feel you.
(Ms. Cellophane)
LOL
I don’t know. I find the young techs here and elsewhere, eager to learn from me.
They seem to know that they don’t know.
I am quickly arriving at that age at which I can relate with that. But let me tell you the thing about greyplaining…
I’m kidding. That was irony, kind of.
Anyway, once in a while, I am wrong about how something is going to come out, and then I am pleasantly surprised.
Not usually, though. Not usually.
Yep. had to diagnose a problem today on some software. Changes where made and as near as I can tell tests where never run. Code could not have worked. Another developer had made the change and used the newer development guide lines, sort of.
Explaining that to management was a treat.
An engineer sent his co-op over with a question on how to test a sensor. The co-op ask the question and I explained why it wasn’t a good idea to over range the sensor. He did it anyway and the surprise, surprise, surprise, he cooked the prototype.
The engineer was not happy and probably delivered the first ass chewing the youngster ever received.
I wish “greysplainer” would fit onto a license plate.
Vanity plate, thy name is mine!
I’m fortunate though, in the face of an an oncoming storm, that I’m in a neighborhood mostly of “competents”.
And the incompetent ones live on the other side of the neighborhood, for what it’s worth.
Now if you’ll forgive me, I’ve got to go out and play in the rain, and board up all the windows.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Batten down those hatches!
First you make the mistakes and learn.
Then you greysplain.
Then you retire.
In my last job, I was patiently greysplaining that if they wanted to save a butt load of money and time on some qualifications tests that always take a butt load of money and time, they should route the wires a “certain way”. The project leader apparently decided that since I wasn’t banging on the table, they didn’t need to do that.
After he wasted the time doing it his way, he did it my way and it worked.
Yep, I’m there… sigh And no, I’m not sticking around either.
Retired from R&D and production of initiating explosives about a dozen years back. Not much greysplaining in
that business.
Oh, yeah, Been There, Done That, and started a company in my retirement selling the T-Shirts.
Seriously, though, I’m right behind SiG and Old_NFO.
When I was still working, it was a very refreshing and wonderous thing to have the young pups come and ask for help. The ones that listened and asked intelligent questions always went far.
The others, not so much….
1) i am a moron, which is typical of cheese eating surrender monkeys
too cowardly to stay in France and have to escape to Canuckistan
and suck at Trudeau’s socialist teat.
2) apparently it hasn’t occurred to me that i am a moron
3) i’m too stupid to realize i have just tried to insult someone whose ballsweat i am unfit to drink.
4) i am an insufferable boor that my own children will always hate.
5)no matter how long i live, i will always be a moron.