No, there is a difference between treating as just a 9-5 job, and wanting to sit and not do what you are contracted to do because you’d like somebody else without qualifications to do the work for you. Not only is that just being a shitry human it is negligence on an engineers part.

As you work toward your PENG there are ethics and expectations of a Professional Engineer, and personal legal consequences if your work injures somebody by negligence.

The counting person wasn’t that they couldn’t count past 10, it was that assemblies are 3d and you rotate them, zoom, hide/show parts etc, and they couldn’t figure out how to tally without losing track. A problem solver (which is what an Engineer is supposed to be) even with a disability, would jot on a notepad with components names already selected/counted, or simple tally marks as they went.

As I mentioned this wasn’t a person stuggling with a disability (because I have worked with many) it was somebody that had come up through a system that did it for them and assumed that’s how you just keep going in life. Maybe chatgpt did their homework, maybe they had charm and had others do everything for them. But its been a common. Thing more recently especially COVID onwards.

We even had one guy make up support ticket numbers and pretend he was working hard all day, meanwhile its instagram and random, browsing.