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Re: What to do when mentors are leading the team in the wrong direction?

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
In the words of JVN, "Voting is not an engineering decision making process."

Also, howabout the people who are consistently in the minority? They will in fact feel more left out.
Kinda sounds like how we decided on programming in Java this year. My first contact with a bunch of the students this year (September) was in a meeting where a number of "experienced" people (including the lead mentor) held a vote on Java versus LabView in the finest traditions of the Soviet Politburo. The outcome was predetermined, and there was no time for rational technical arguments. None of the "experienced" folks in that effort are involved in the controls & software side of the robot now, and we're struggling with a bunch of rookies who can't see what's going on. The grand virtue of LabView is that you can see what's going to happen.

Gee, just like the multi-million dollar mistake I am living through at work. Kids. welcome to the real world.

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