When somebody won’t just take the compliment. It’s like come on, just take the W.

But also I feel strange getting praise in a real time conversation.

downtime

minimal retraining

I feel your pain. Many good ideas that cause this are rejected. I have had ideas requiring one big downtime chunk rejected even though it reduces short but constant downtimes and mathematically the fix will pay for itself in a month easily.

Then the minimal retraining is frustrating when work environments and coworkers still pretend computers are some crazy device they’ve never seen before.