• CeeBee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When I was a manager of a small team it was all junior guys. I had to hammer into their heads to message if they had trouble making progress.

    A few times I got the feeling one of the guys was having issues (based on messages). So I called them up on Friday afternoon and they admitted they were way behind because they couldn’t get past an issue. But they said “don’t worry, I’ll work through the weekend to get it done”.

    I told him “no, you’re not working on the weekend. We’ll connect on Monday morning and work through the problem together. Just let me know sooner next time so we can get you back on track quicker.”

    After a couple of those they got the message that it’s ok to ask for help and isn’t a sign of weakness and they’re not gonna get fired for asking.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      As a junior engineer, wish management at my last job told me that. Since our team shrunk and lost basically all of our seniors, I felt like I was walking on thin ice with all the expectations I needed to meet. And when they have to train you + give half of the department processes to you and another junior, it can be paralyzing. Didn’t help that management was never around for me to ask for help too because they were too busy picking up other issues from people leaving the company in other departments. Ugh. Me being fired was always over my head

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I’ve gotten into the habit of checking up on junior engineers around the time they should be asking me questions. If they haven’t asked me anything, I know they are lost.