"everyone should learn everything" I've been in a couple places where I did know 'everything', or... near enough. The more I got to learn outside my own speci

"everyone should learn everything" I've been in a couple places where I did know 'everything', or... near enough. The more I got to learn outside my own specific dept, the more cynical and frustrated I became (usually). You start to notice that entire groups of people are often just sitting around for days doing absolutely nothing because they're waiting for one person who's out for the week, etc. Or you learn that people just spent 4 months working on something that was rejected in a meeting 4 months earlier, but... the original team still wanted to do it anyway, and therefore couldn't help your group over the past 4 months.