Timeline for How to properly respond to boss asking for a recommendation / opinion on hardware to purchase
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| Mar 31, 2016 at 19:59 | comment | added | Cypher | If it's not rocket science then why is the task being handed to a software engineer and a network administrator? Certainly anyone with some common sense can pick a phone for some basic needs. The fact that the CEO gave the task to two technical people implies that a bit more technical thought was desired. | |
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| Mar 19, 2016 at 21:48 | comment | added | Kilisi | If I told one of my developers to recommend a phone at 5pm and yet I had to hold their hand while they did it, I'd be wondering if I needed him/her at all. It's just a phone, not rocket science where I forgot to give them some key info on the moons gravity affecting trajectory or something. | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 17:43 | comment | added | Lilienthal♦ | Following instructions to the letter is expected in sweatshops and indentured servitude. Professionals performing skilled labour are expected to posses a more critical mind and a great deal more common sense. Mindless obedience is a passive resistance strategy, not something to encourage. | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 15:22 | comment | added | CodeSeeker | Initiative to decide a phone for an entire department with no experience or background in such tasks, on a short deadline, without asking questions of apparently the only source of information on what those needs are? Frankly, I think the OP showed good sense trying to get some rational principles out of the CEO instead of trying to guess (your "show initiative"). It would be lame to make a recommendation, be criticized later for it, and have to say "well, the information given wasn't enough, but I didn't ask questions because I didn't want to be seen as lacking initiative." | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 7:40 | history | answered | Kilisi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |