There’s a chap in another office, someone i’d never met but interacted with occasionally. A productive guy, a good guy, competent and effective. 2 years go by and I only need to interact with him once a month or so but i know he’s good.
Fast forward to a change of role which means i interact with this chap a lot more frequently. All good.
Randomly one day while pairing with another colleague on something, he says “yeah when i found out XXX was blind i nearly fell off my chair”.
Come again?
He’s blind, you didn’t know?
Ahh i think we’re talking about different people, i meant XXX in the X office.
Yeah, he’s blind.
Cue 40 mins of “no wait, that can’t be possible, i know this guys work, it’s physically impossible that he’s blind”.
I try not to make a deal out of him but now that i know, i can’t help but see him as anything other than superhuman. I still struggle to comprehend deep down that viewed remotely through textual interaction someone can appear not just unimpared but actually one of the top N% of performers. He’s always switched on and remembers everything.
Fast forward to a change of role which means i interact with this chap a lot more frequently. All good.
Randomly one day while pairing with another colleague on something, he says “yeah when i found out XXX was blind i nearly fell off my chair”.
Come again?
He’s blind, you didn’t know?
Ahh i think we’re talking about different people, i meant XXX in the X office.
Yeah, he’s blind.
Cue 40 mins of “no wait, that can’t be possible, i know this guys work, it’s physically impossible that he’s blind”.
I try not to make a deal out of him but now that i know, i can’t help but see him as anything other than superhuman. I still struggle to comprehend deep down that viewed remotely through textual interaction someone can appear not just unimpared but actually one of the top N% of performers. He’s always switched on and remembers everything.