I mentioned that the women I knew were kind, sure there were some nasty ones but once you've left school and go to college yo no longer associate with those who gave you a hard time but gravitate towards those whom you have good relations.
It occurred to me that, of course, there were plenty of people who disliked me and gave me a hard time. A lot of that is because of my personality type. Being an INTJ is difficult and lots of people don't know how to handle us. Then as I was just mulling it over a flashback to a situation where I was a young up and coming technician who was plucked out of the pool because I had a specific skill for understanding complex control systems and I could scan multiple drawings and see problems in them - it's a pattern thing that I can notice things like this. A number in a series that is out of place, a connection that is in the wrong line and so on. So I became a young wizzkid I suppose and now it dawns on me, all these years ago, that the reason I was treated quite so badly was that I could do something other people could not and maybe I was a threat to them? I don't know, I liked to be around clever people but something must have affected people who'd lose their minds in anger sometimes.
All it did to me was to make me work harder, learn more and move around jobs. I look at how people are losing their mind over Trump and Musk and I wonder if it is some sort of problem people have that they cannot work with people or perhaps they've been found out and karma is coming down the road fast towards them? I'd say I'm pretty much a dark horse and keep my cards close to my chest in business, not so much outside of that area. The thing is that perhaps I scared these people somehow? I'd always have run ins with the vast majority of my bosses, there were only a handful that I really excelled working for, two of them were women and they were scarily good but they knew that I'd get the job done, would leave me to it and I'd only have to go and ask and they'd put things in place for me. A couple of men too were good but the rest were chancers who had no idea what they were doing and who made decisions that weren't thought through.
What they'd hate is that I'd challenge their decisions where needed and I'd produce data and plans why their decision wouldn't work or be suitable and then they'd get angry and tell me to implement it. I'd document my objections, tell them what might happen and blow me down, it would come to pass. Then they'd explode and I'd make the situation worse by giving them a copy of what I'd told them would happen. I wasn't a diplomat!
So back to it, all this mistreatment was because inevitably these guys would screw up all by themselves and then they'd come after me. I didn't help myself as I'd probably make the situation worse :-) I see this in the world now. Cr@p decisions made by inadequately prepared specifications, a wrong grasp on facts and figures and no planning, ROI, work on risks or knock on impacts. It's pitiful. When you point out that there's a problem they actually use words like "I don't care" or "No it's not" and there's absolutely nothing there at all. They don't listen and they make stupid decisions as if just by making them it's going to solve things. Then they get angry and yell and are nasty and for what purpose?
It's a nasty place at the moment. We are run by intellectual lightweights who hold idealogy above real life actual data and who's idea of an impact assessment lacks any coherent argument, planning or cost benefit analysis. The reason is? None of them have been in business or understand the totality of what it means to approach the self inflicted problems in a holistic manner.
Anyway, as I daydreamed this meeting I had with a technician who couldn't see the problems I was highlighting it struck me that all they saw was a threat and all I saw was the danger of wiring up some components in a way that would potentially kill someone if installed as shown. I wonder if all displays of anger are based in this inadequacy to be open to discussion and more likely to protect their own necks?
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