Troubleshooting is an acquired skill and more than half an art. One thing it isn't: throwing one's hands in the air and saying, "I can't tell what's wrong. You figure it out. You know this stuff."
I need to figure out how to transmit this wisdom to the boys in my project team. I can't tell if they are genuinely clueless or if they're pretending so that I'll "show them how" by doing their work for them. The problem with their strategy is that we are running out of time and Mountain Girl and I have other things to do. There's also the small matter that she and I don't have some mystical, all-encompassing knowledge of the Hamsters, although it might look like it to someone who gives up at the first little Hamster tantrum.
135 words | April 13, 2005 09:55 PM | Ivory tower