I once worked with a planner on an architectural project who suggested we should “fuck off the architects, because we could do this ourselves”.
While this guy was a delusional idiot, he was not – sadly – an anomaly.
I am getting increasingly frustrated by people who claim to have the answers to everything and anything when it is based almost exclusively on their own, clouded, personal perspectives.
They don’t care about the details … the issues … the nuances … the real problems … they think they can solve everything simply because their opinion represents every opinion, regardless how tenuous their knowledge or experience.
Sure, it is possible for some people to get so ‘lost’ in the details that they take you down dead-ends … but that doesn’t mean everyone is like that, so to have the attitude that you can blindly ignore people with specific knowledge and experience or that you don’t need to seek out greater understanding of the nuances of the situation because you think you know everything already, is – at best – naive and – at worst – the work of a destructive imposter.
Professionalism doesn’t mean you have to wear a suit and a tie and carry a briefcase to work every day, it means you have an inherent desire to do the best work of your life each and every time which means you can’t sit on your pedestal of delusion and prejudice with your eyes closed, ears shut but poisonous tongue very much alive.
By all means have a different point of view … but base it on the real issues and problems, not what you want the issue and problems to be.
Or instead of working for someone else, go start your own company and see how far you can go on your own. At least earn the right for your arrogance.
Happy Monday.