A new, young PC technician was hired and from the get go he was practically blowing himself with claims he’ll be promoted quickly, he could do the job of 2 people, nobody works harder than him. Less than 2 months into the job someone calls the dept asking where he is because he was supposed to swap out a PC for a director at an off-site location. His manager called his cell and asked where he was. He told em he was just finishing up Cathy’s PC and he’ll be back on site.
Manager: “Cathy just called me asking why you haven’t shown up yet. So I’ll ask again…where the hell are you?”
Turns out he was hung-the-fuck-over and napping at home. He got canned very quickly.
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t. If someone is good at something, they don’t need to point it out.
What’s worse than both is “I’ve been doing this for X amount of years!” Because then they’re both dumb and incompetent. If they say they have 20 years of experience usually it means 20X1st year of experience.
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t.
Oh absolutely 110%. I could count on all my and your fingers and toes the number of coworkers I’ve had who spent half the day walking around chitchatting that they were the hardest worker, first in last out…they undeniably never were.
A new, young PC technician was hired and from the get go he was practically blowing himself with claims he’ll be promoted quickly, he could do the job of 2 people, nobody works harder than him. Less than 2 months into the job someone calls the dept asking where he is because he was supposed to swap out a PC for a director at an off-site location. His manager called his cell and asked where he was. He told em he was just finishing up Cathy’s PC and he’ll be back on site.
Manager: “Cathy just called me asking why you haven’t shown up yet. So I’ll ask again…where the hell are you?”
Turns out he was hung-the-fuck-over and napping at home. He got canned very quickly.
The people that scream the loudest about being hard working or intelligent usually aren’t. If someone is good at something, they don’t need to point it out.
What’s worse than both is “I’ve been doing this for X amount of years!” Because then they’re both dumb and incompetent. If they say they have 20 years of experience usually it means 20X1st year of experience.
Or they feel so much imposter syndrome that they keep quiet.
I mean I am probably not even good enough to have imposter syndrome, its probably the Dunning Kruger effect.
Nice, you just did either the first derivative of imposter syndrome, or you made it recursive, but I’m probably too shit to tell which
Oh absolutely 110%. I could count on all my and your fingers and toes the number of coworkers I’ve had who spent half the day walking around chitchatting that they were the hardest worker, first in last out…they undeniably never were.