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Deal With the Brilliant Jerks You Work With

posted by Dopefish on Friday February 28 2014, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept.

AnonTechie writes "In business, intelligence is always a critical element in any employee, because what we do is difficult and complex and the competitors are filled with extremely smart people. However, intelligence isn't the only important quality. Being effective in a company also means working hard, being reliable, and being an excellent member of the team. Companies where people with diverse backgrounds and work styles can succeed have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining top talent over those that don't."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Zipf on Friday February 28 2014, @11:21PM

    by Zipf (2400) on Friday February 28 2014, @11:21PM (#8947)

    I am pretty sure I am the brilliant jerk. Didn't start that way. I like my peers. I like learning, the dialectic process, teaching, presenting, exploring. But I have come to view my boss as someone not in-the-know. I like my job and the topic. I keep four books (canonical and new) next to the toilet at home, read the latest research online, refine my knowledge of the available tools with my weekend hobbies. When I try to share interesting research, I get lines like, "you don't know this topic, I was doing this topic when you were in high school." When I was in high school I was doing research in physics, chemistry, building interfaces for search engines... hell when I was in high school, I was probably doing more interesting stuff ... ahh but then the jerk kicks in. Last week I was tasked with unfactorizing my code. But what if we needed to apply it to another product? "What other product?" he retorts, "this will be easier for the software guys to implement. Also, shorten the variable names and eliminate descriptions from the document." How the hell can this guy be my manager? I get so busy doing things wrong, which is actually fairly difficult, that I feel like I struggle to contribute to the firm. Does he want to focus on minutiae because he is afraid of running out of projects? .. gotta run... I gotta make sure the program doesn't print to STDERR should it throw opening a file because obviously redirection is an innovation. *sigh* I try to keep my attitudes private... and he has made it easy by forbidding me from speaking with others in the firm... Any advice from the veterans -- on how to take it?