Any chance he was just joshin'?
My organization is full of twenty and thirty somethings and we can engineer the hell out of anything.
Nope.
Serious as a heart attack.
Smart guy , but NO experience.
They sent him to me to learn the ropes.
Why calculate a circuit, send endless email, negotiate what needs to be done, waste a pile of time, Get planning involved, cut a new work order, to change a value on a resistor when I can slip in a pot, tweek the thing and solder down a new resistor in .5 hours?
Greenhorns!