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Speaker 1: Trainee tries to trick me into doing his work, so

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Speaker 1: I deleted everything.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that seems like an escalation. Maybe an overreaction, right,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but I am excited for the story

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Speaker 2: because of this escalation. So let's hear it.

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Speaker 1: Let's see how it goes. Some context. In my current role,

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Speaker 1: I'm a product engineer and an engineering team. Since I

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Speaker 1: have background in industrial design and not engineering, I have

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Speaker 1: loss of skills not typically found in engineers, including photography,

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Speaker 1: rendering graphic design. Rendering specifically is something I've enjoyed and

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Speaker 1: excelled at and done for a few years now. So

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Speaker 1: today I've been training someone to do three D rendering

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Speaker 1: as I'm about to leave my role at the end

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Speaker 1: of the week. The rendering honestly isn't that hard to learn,

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Speaker 1: but it does take a lot of practice to get

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Speaker 1: really good at it. On a rare occasion, someone might

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Speaker 1: have a natural eye for photography. I certainly did not.

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Speaker 1: It took me some time in practice. Trying to explain

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Speaker 1: this to my manager, who doesn't care about photography is

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Speaker 1: certainly interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when someone doesn't understand what it takes to do

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Speaker 2: art or like the creative stuff, like, yeah, Uh, it's

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Speaker 2: it's almost no use talking to them exactly unless you

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Speaker 2: Unless you they just see worse work because of the

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Speaker 2: corners you've had to cut.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's like the loot from Hell because you're

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Speaker 1: doing worse work and they don't even understand to like

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Speaker 1: try to.

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Speaker 2: Give feedback exactly exactly. For this project, I was assigned

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Speaker 2: around thirty projects to render, but since I'm leaving, this

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Speaker 2: list is being transferred to the other person in this story.

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Speaker 2: As the products are large machines, they do take a

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Speaker 2: bit of time to get it looking POI faked poifect

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Speaker 2: I can get everything ready in under an hour, sometimes

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Speaker 2: thirty minutes, depending on the project.

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Speaker 1: And at this point it takes the trainee an entire day,

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Speaker 1: if not longer. So he's literally doing something in thirty

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Speaker 1: minutes that it takes the trainee over a day to do.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, over a day.

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Speaker 1: Over a day like that's that's a pretty huge yeah

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Speaker 1: difference for getting someone to speed. But Opie says this

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Speaker 1: is fair for someone who doesn't have experience. So I've

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Speaker 1: spent three weeks training him. He knows the software and

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Speaker 1: pretty much knows what to do. It's just the practice

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Speaker 1: to become efficient that he still needs. He asked me

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Speaker 1: today to do one last demo from start to finish

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Speaker 1: so he can watch me and take some notes. I

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Speaker 1: asked him to pick a product and I'd go through

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Speaker 1: it with him. He picks one on the list, but

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Speaker 1: the once he picks are often complicated. He made no

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Speaker 1: effort to do any of the work to get it ready.

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Speaker 1: Whatsoever I had to find and get everything together for him.

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Speaker 1: This was the first red flag. As I'm going through

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Speaker 1: my setup, he was paying less and less attention to

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Speaker 1: what he was doing, just being completely lazy. He wasn't

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Speaker 1: even asking questions about my process, and most of the

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Speaker 1: time was looking at his phone.

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Speaker 2: That's just rude. At that point, you asked like, hey,

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Speaker 2: can I learn from you? And then you don't even

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Speaker 2: listen or look at That's just rude.

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Speaker 1: And then you're just trying to get matches on tender. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on, there's a time and place. Towards the end,

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Speaker 1: I briefly ran through everything. I explained a few extra

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Speaker 1: details to improve the lighting quality as well. I concluded

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Speaker 1: by asking these two questions, does this all make sense?

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Speaker 1: And do you have any questions? He applied to those

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Speaker 1: questions yes and no respectfully. Okay, I said, are you sure?

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Speaker 1: Are you positive? He replied yes. Brud did not ask

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Speaker 1: any follow up questions on zero he did not understand

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Speaker 1: the assignment. I closed the program and then proceeded to

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Speaker 1: delete everything, all the work, all of the files that

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Speaker 1: we had put together in front of him and told him,

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Speaker 1: now it's your turn to practice.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, he.

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Speaker 1: Just decimated everything. God. And then I said, you're never

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Speaker 1: going to learn by just copying me, and there's an

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Speaker 1: edit to be and what I want to know.

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Speaker 2: What you thought or said? Dude? Like what, dude? He's

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Speaker 2: so brutal.

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine if someone did that to you, Like

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Speaker 1: they literally just walked you through everything and they're like, okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Great delete and I'm just watching, like all the files

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Speaker 2: go to trash.

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Speaker 1: I imagine you've been working on an edit for hours

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Speaker 1: with someone and they deleted it.

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Speaker 2: In front of your face, in front of your face.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's so rough.

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Speaker 1: The audacity to do it in front of you, pure audacity.

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Speaker 1: Good god. Oh man, So there is an update edit.

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Speaker 1: To be clear, the guy I'm training is not my

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Speaker 1: manager or a manager. I just realized I could have

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Speaker 1: worded that a bit better, and then the final update.

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Speaker 1: I was kind of lucky that my real manager wasn't

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Speaker 1: in today. Yeah, honestly, I'll say, like, you're deleting the

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Speaker 1: file like that's kind of a lot. He probably would

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Speaker 1: not approve of my teaching methods. But whenever I teach

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Speaker 1: anyone anything, the best way, in my experience is the

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Speaker 1: hands on demo first. Then I try and get them

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Speaker 1: to do it under my supervision. But this guy should

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Speaker 1: have been way past that point already. I had been

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Speaker 1: through it with him several times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it is a little brutal

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Speaker 2: to just like delete the project. Yeah, entirely, because it's

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Speaker 2: like you already finished it, and then you're just kind

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Speaker 2: of like, I guess, wasting company time. Maybe a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that seems it seems a little harsh, but yeah, it

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Speaker 2: seems I guess it just seems like unnecessary.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit too far. He apparently already knew that this.

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Speaker 1: He had done this, I guess multiple times with this guy,

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Speaker 1: so he should have been like, I'll help you, like

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Speaker 1: get everything set up, go, yeah, and if you if

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Speaker 1: you get too far on the wrong path, I'll nudge

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Speaker 1: you back onto the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I don't know if that's like, I think

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Speaker 2: a better thing would be like, hey, you're not like

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Speaker 2: if I catch you not paying attention, like I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna keep teaching you and I'll just give you what

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Speaker 2: you have, right, But I mean, maybe maybe the kid

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Speaker 2: learned his lesson, though honestly the kid probably I just

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Speaker 2: wish we knew like what his response was, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Me too, like was like, yeah, I would definitely be passed,

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Speaker 1: although I probably would never be that like unengaged.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean like the kid sounds kind of

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Speaker 2: like a twerp, but uh, lesson learned, don't be a

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Speaker 2: twerp and pay attention and that's right. Do you work?

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Speaker 2: Do you work