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Re:Brilliant Jerks in Engineering by sliverstorm on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:22PM (#15689864)
It also really depends on your delivery. You can shoot down ideas and make counter-arguments in friendly & supportive ways, or smug & arrogant ways.

I can see why you'd think that, I made the same mistake earlier, but see there's this problem here...

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No, that's obviously wrong, why would you even think that? Let me show you the right way...

Re:Brilliant Jerks in Engineering by fhood on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:09PM (#15690270)
You can only take that tone for co-workers. Doesn't work for your superiors as op describes.