In technical workplaces, this is especially a problem when people think they shouldn’t ask for help, out of fear of admitting ignorance.
This is probably the biggest waste of time in tech. Who knows what isn’t identified and properly leveraged. People are punished for saving time by seeking direction of those who know better (they don’t know their jobs), and those who know better aren’t rewarded for the work they save others.
On the other hand, you also have the problem of people who will ask questions that could be answered in a 1-minute Google search or by reading the documentation, thus breaking the flow of the senior programmer and wasting 30 minutes of their time.
It does go both ways.
My personal policy is to spend 5-10 minutes searching if I’d be interrupting someone’s concentration.
This is probably the biggest waste of time in tech. Who knows what isn’t identified and properly leveraged. People are punished for saving time by seeking direction of those who know better (they don’t know their jobs), and those who know better aren’t rewarded for the work they save others.
On the other hand, you also have the problem of people who will ask questions that could be answered in a 1-minute Google search or by reading the documentation, thus breaking the flow of the senior programmer and wasting 30 minutes of their time.
It does go both ways.
My personal policy is to spend 5-10 minutes searching if I’d be interrupting someone’s concentration.