I'm too clever for my job - and my manager says so

Manxman_in_exile

PersianCatLady wrote: »

I have tried to read all of your posts but I must have missed the thing that I want to know.

What qualifications do you have??

Good question. But then it's not about what qualifications they have - it's about how "clever" they are.


EDIT: and I do know really clever people without any real qualifications. The OP may or not be one of these people.

PersianCatLady

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Good question. But then it's not about what qualifications they have - it's about how "clever" they are.


EDIT: and I do know really clever people without any real qualifications. The OP may or not be one of these people.

I agree but I have often found that the sort of people who belittle and sneer at qualifications are quite likely to not have any themselves.

John-K_3

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Shouldn't that be "people's posts"? Sorry - I'm being annoying again!

Would that it were so simple...

As you can see above, I have the apostrophe problem that some on the site get, so omitted them.

So not annoying, just unobservant, I think, as the post just a couple up politely asked those of us with this issue to stop using them.

John-K_3

PersianCatLady wrote: »

I agree but I have often found that the sort of people who belittle and sneer at qualifications are quite likely to not have any themselves.

A decent rule of thumb, I think.

So many people who post like the OP, when questioned, turn out to have been middling at school, and not to have achieved much since. All too often they will just struggle doing any job right, and rather than accept that they are a bit on the dim side they will instead decide that everyone else is stupid, and so doesn’t understand how well they are doing.

That is not to say that everyone brilliant showed it at school, but self-identifying as a genius while the rest of the world disagrees is rarely sensible.

jobbingmusician

*goes into a happy dream where there is a reasonable and sensible explanation like the one above for ALL the grammatical errors on the internet....*

PersianCatLady

John-K wrote: »

A decent rule of thumb, I think.

So many people who post like the OP, when questioned, turn out to have been middling at school, and not to have achieved much since. All too often they will just struggle doing any job right, and rather than accept that they are a bit on the dim side they will instead decide that everyone else is stupid, and so doesn’t understand how well they are doing.

That is not to say that everyone brilliant showed it at school, but self-identifying as a genius while the rest of the world disagrees is rarely sensible.

I am still waiting for the OP to answer my question about his qualifications.

Manxman_in_exile

John-K wrote: »

Would that it were so simple...

As you can see above, I have the apostrophe problem that some on the site get, so omitted them.

So not annoying, just unobservant, I think, as the post just a couple up politely asked those of us with this issue to stop using them.

Oh God! That all went completely above my head. I've now spotted two missing apostrophes that id (ha ha) previously "unobserved"!


I am very intelligent (logical/numerical/verbal) but subtlety frequently eludes me! (My wife said something about Jeremy Corbyn yesterday and I said "I didn't think you felt like that?" and she said "I'm being sarcastic you moron!").

Manxman_in_exile

PersianCatLady wrote: »

I am still waiting for the OP to answer my question about his qualifications.

I don't think were (sorry we're) going to find out...

John-K_3

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Oh God! That all went completely above my head. I've now spotted two missing apostrophes that id (ha ha) previously "unobserved"!


I am very intelligent (logical/numerical/verbal) but subtlety frequently eludes me! (My wife said something about Jeremy Corbyn yesterday and I said "I didn't think you felt like that?" and she said "I'm being sarcastic you moron!").

It would be nice it it could be sorted. Writing without them is really hard, and unnatural to me.

Manxman_in_exile

John-K wrote: »

It would be nice it it could be sorted. Writing without them is really hard, and unnatural to me.

I've also only just realised that the forum isn't dealing very well with apostrophes at the moment.


I'll put on a dunce's cap and stand in the corner...