Bert is settling in! I think I am mostly over my cold.
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I've wasted my Saturday trying to understand neurotypicals and I'm mad at myself. Extremely simplified version:
I got asked if I wanted to witness some performance testing at work because I questioned previous tests (rightfully, I might add???). I don't really want to, but I pop by to visit the system yesterday to just get a sense of how it's operating. If it's generally within parameters I won't bother, but if it's iffy I'll show up.
The system is supposed to operate under a vacuum. Dear reader, it was positively pressurized?? Idk how it's even possible but that's not my mess to figure out. I reply back saying, heads up you might want to plan to delay the test because of [a variety of details]. People are traveling several hundred km for this and I thought it was polite. The evil autism approach would have been to show up on Monday, cackle at how it's not working and tell them to call me when they fix it and then we can discuss if a test can happen.
I saw the reply today saying nah it's fine?
I can't wrap my head around it at all.
Anyways, I write a giant fucking novel of an email explaining point by point why it's not acceptable to try and test the system as is, and what some possible solutions might be. 2 hours of my life. On a Saturday.
I should have just been evil.
(Kids: being paid to be autistic sounds fun but it actually fucking sucks some times.)
I have learned to shut my mouth after I have raised a concern one time. And I try to do it in an email so I can cover my ass.
Generally a good approach! Unfortunately this acceptance testing for critical regulated equipment (that I know doesn't function as per design) and I need the rest results to accurately show if it works or not. I'm the licenced engineer responsible for the overall system.