Autism

I don't know about you specifically but for anything complex or technical it takes atleast about 2 months to be similar to a long term employee. Between learning the computer systems, getting any permissions they need, learning the general work flow, learning what is not normal, what to do when something goes wrong, who to contact if you have issues or need something outside your role for example at my last job part of my job was looking at a process and determining how to improve it, let's say I thought a different fixture would increase throughput. First I had to contact the cad team to transform my thought into an official drawing. Next to see if I was right, I had to contact the 3d printing team to get the new fixture printed. Next contact the production scheduling team to get a test run done, while also working with production supervisor to ensure they were aware, then run the test and analyze the data assuming data looked good, now contact the machine shop to get it made out of metal or traditional milled plastic, now back to original scheduler to schedule final test. That's all assuming no software changes or quality concerns or bio material contact concerns or regulatory submissions or purchasing components from a vendor. Learning who all those people and when you do and don't need to contact them takes time. Previously I also repaired industrial equipment, where are the extra parts? What is the common issues and how to fix them? What can you just quickly do and what becomes a big issue? What is caused by user and what is caused by machine fatigue/issue? Where are the keys for things that are locked up? Who are the vendors if I need to order spare parts? These are only a few examples and are different for every company and every position. You can't learn it from college and the knowledge is useless when you leave that company. Generally if you only stay for 6 months you are a burden to your boss/trainer etc for about 1/3 of your time there. This is why I always hated interns, they may be smart but by the time they get the company specific information they had like 2-3 weeks left. Management would be like "I'll give you an intern to speed this project up" but no, most likely it will only slow it down. I typically took the intern though because it's important to train the next generation but it almost always resulted in additional work for me.

Hey, uh, Pooh, there's a honey pot right over here. do you want to go investigate it?

Sometimes you need the enemy to know you're knowing stuff... "Send in our worst spy".film