I’m the bad guy here, I’m aware. No one is doing as good of a job as they think. Everything is falling apart and everyone is getting dumber and every service and product is gettting worse, and everyone responsible for the decline seems to think imposter syndrome applies to them. I am a licensed proper professional, with a constant urge to learn more and better myself. It’s so rare to meet someone in my industry who isn’t faking it or going through the motions that I’ve made a point to stay in contact with anyone I meet who actually knows what the fuck they’re talking about.
That’s four people. In 11 years.
Companies send reps to my offices that can’t answer basic questions. Customer service for any company can’t help with anything. Websites for multibillion dollar companies have broken and missing links, and their tech support has no idea what the words I say to them even mean. Companies will try to set up meetings with me to buy their 100k machines or bring their new tech into my offices, and they can’t even tell me what it fucking does outside of promontory buzzwords that have no real meaning.
Classes I have to take to get CE credits every year are full of braindead dipshits with no hope of ever advancing their accreditation who don’t realize this isn’t high school and you’re not going to be given a multiple choice exam you can bluff your way through when you’re actively defending your right to have the title to the fucking board.
I rip these people apart when they try to do business with me. If you want to be seen as a professional, be a fucking professional.
Imposter syndrome is real, but the majority claiming they have it aren’t good enough to be an imposter. Someone in this world needs to know what the fuck they’re talking about, and i guess I have to be the one to expose anyone who doesn’t. So I’m the bad guy, the person the imposters are afraid of meeting.
Being polite would be a disservice to anyone who has to deal with the problems their incompetence will cause.
My thing is: How do people handle stuff that has to be done between 9-5, Mon-Fri?
I tried to switch ISPs on Friday (which was an hour-long ordeal), got to the part where she said “Okay, I think that’s everything I have for you. I’ve got the disconnect screen pulled up, when would you like to —“ and the call dropped.
It’s now Tuesday, and I haven’t found a spare hour during the work day to call again.
I’ve also got a home warranty company telling me to update my claim or they’ll close it, but I need to talk to the receptionist at the plumbers during business hours to get them to resend the invoice.
And then I get stuck in this loop of:
- I have to make these calls today
- I’ll kick butt at work so I have enough time
- I spent the whole time worrying about those calls and didn’t get enough work done
- Now I have one less day to make those calls
Why can’t people handle things over email or a web portal? This is so much unnecessary stress and contortion.
To answer to your first question, we don’t have such demanding 9-5 jobs. I can step out for an hour and no one will notice I’m missing, I’m invisible at work and it’s the way I like it
Our parents felt like independent adults trading their time and energy for a life worth living, the felt that way because they could.
It’s hard to grow up with no ability to have agency in our lives like our parents had.
Most millennials and younger are literally living paycheck to paycheck and unable to escape that pit. There is basically no financial or social independence possible, so it’s hard to feel like an actualized, independent, autonomous adult.
We are at the end of post WWII prosperity
I’m deceiving everyone
I am child
I have my own apartment, my bills are paid, I have nice things, I’m good at my job, and every day I wake up worried I’m going to lose it all because I’m just winging it and have no idea how I got here. Why haven’t I failed yet?
Me IRL.
