“Ignorance is bliss… until you are asked to do some work.”
-Me
I respect the idea that not everyone knows everything. I respect that many people may seem ignorant of one subject but are geniuses in another field. I also feel that just because a banker gets paid more than a homemaker, that this doesn’t make the homemaker stupid, because that homemaker could be very smart in keeping house and running a family.
What absolutely drives me up a wall is when someone interviews for a job, gets a job, and when they sit down to do the job, have abso-fucking-lutely no idea what they are doing. I believe most everyone has some kind of ability to do a job at least decently, but not everyone is good at everything, so why are you doing this job?
Many of my friends and family do not know how to configure a computer or troubleshoot problems. That’s okay, these people aren’t stupid, they just don’t know computers like me. What drives me nuts are the people who run IT departments in companies, or are accountants trying to do accounting, who don’t understand their own jobs!
If the average person doesn’t understand what USB is, that’s okay, that’s not important to your job or your life and such a person should be given help as needed. If you are in IT and you don’t know what USB is, how to use it, or how to troubleshoot it properly, you need to learn incredibly fast or you need to find another job.
“Stupidity” is a relative term and there’s really no level of knowledge that one could say one is smart or stupid. However, incompetance is real and measurable… and it sucks when you have to deal with incompetent people day in and day out.
