I'd like to milk this as much as possible.
2006-07-20 15:01:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
I am an engineer and don't really know what I'm doing.
2006-07-20 15:02:53 · update #1
For exactly as long as his co workers allow it.
Note that newer employees will not allow you to blame your faults and laziness on being new, and most experienced employees can tell the difference between ignorance and incompetence. Blaming your faults on laziness will eventually be reflected in poor quarterly evaluations, lower pay, getting hopped over on the promotion trail, and eventually being fired...
unless you've honed your skills at brown nosing, in which case you need only learn to have your responsibilities delegated to others who take the blame, but that's just evil.
2006-07-20 15:16:10 · answer #1 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a detriment to the company to milk it..especially by blaming your faults and laziness on being new...your co workers may start to resent you...watch how others do what you don't know how to, ask as many questions as you can, take notes, and do your job
2006-07-21 00:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by DangerMouse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anywhere from a week to a month, depending on the difficulty level of the job you are performing.
If you're going to be safe about it, though, three weeks is the max before I would be questioning the reasons I hired you.
2006-07-20 22:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by <3 The Pest <3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say the first week and then thats it. YOU took the job so YOU should have known what profession it was and what it was going to take to be successful. Dont be so ridiculous as to lose your job over a bit of laziness. Ask about what you dont know and learn while your'e at it.
2006-07-20 22:07:36 · answer #4 · answered by calphey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
7 to 10 days.
2006-07-20 22:04:12 · answer #5 · answered by Stacy R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forty years or retirement, whichever comes first ... didn't guarantee the new employee would be entirely believed, but it's worth a try. They have to know that their next hire could be much worse at it ;)
2006-07-20 22:08:11 · answer #6 · answered by Julia C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had a guy working for 10 years & still claimed being new was the reason he never got any work done.
2006-07-20 22:04:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how incompetent your manager is.... if he's like the pointy haired boss in the Dilbert comic strip, you could be his Wally for a loooooong time.
2006-07-20 22:03:30 · answer #8 · answered by Adios 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Around two weeks maximum
2006-07-20 22:04:52 · answer #9 · answered by nuwanusa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 days and we got you figured out your fired
2006-07-20 22:07:21 · answer #10 · answered by Joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋