"Consistent is better than once in a while"- advice given to me
The other day I had a conversation with an electrical designer working with me. He told me a story how when he was young electrician he was asked to provide a source for a system. In order to do that he had to run conduit along a wall.
Since he was new to his position he went out of his way to do a great job. He wanted to make sure that the conduit was level so he used his tools to make sure it was so.
Next day one of his bosses took him out to the job site and told him to pull back and look at his job in respect to the other conduits in the area. His looked perfect but it did not match existing. Since all of the other conduits were slightly off his stood out as being wrong. Even though his was the only one that was perfectly level it looked like a mistake.
The moral of that story is that the new has to match existing otherwise it looks wrong.
Today's question is:
"Do you always match existing or do you want to be different?"
The other day I had a conversation with an electrical designer working with me. He told me a story how when he was young electrician he was asked to provide a source for a system. In order to do that he had to run conduit along a wall.
Since he was new to his position he went out of his way to do a great job. He wanted to make sure that the conduit was level so he used his tools to make sure it was so.
Next day one of his bosses took him out to the job site and told him to pull back and look at his job in respect to the other conduits in the area. His looked perfect but it did not match existing. Since all of the other conduits were slightly off his stood out as being wrong. Even though his was the only one that was perfectly level it looked like a mistake.
The moral of that story is that the new has to match existing otherwise it looks wrong.
Today's question is:
"Do you always match existing or do you want to be different?"
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