People with zero self awareness - (person, dysfunctional, college)
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We have a dysfunctional Engineering with with only a few people producing at all. I was excited when they open a new position and I thought that it is good that we get some fresh blood before a few engineers retire. So last month we interview a few candidates and decided to hire one. I was the only person against hiring him but my Engineering Manager and the Engineering Director liked him so my feedback was put aside. I looked into his Linkedin account and it took him 10 years to finish college. He worked one place for 6 months, another place for a year, and another place for under two years so I didn't have a good impression on his perseverance. If he is IT, a high turnover profession, I would understand but we are Mechanical Engineers.
It turned out worst than I imagined. Last week I and other Engineers trained him and a new Sales Manager and he was texting through the entire training only to come back and ask dumb questions. His mind is always somewhere else but the training. The new Sales Manager, a non technical guy, understood everything and tried to explain things to the new Engineer. Unbelievable. I and another Engineer took both of these new hires to lunch. The new Engineer took a call, went outside for half an hour, and then came back to eat his lunch while talking on the phone loudly. The three of us looked at each other, shook our heads and smiled.
Self-awareness is something that engineering types have a harder time with, generically speaking, a lot of those types are typically INTJ or other "T" types....
Those who think a lot have a tendency to not be "here" if you know what I mean.
I say this from massive experience... on many levels...
Signed... a guy who needs to not think as much.....
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