I have very little time for people who are incompetent.  I struggle not to call them names or to belittle them.  It’s hard for me not to point out the mistakes people make and make them feel bad.  I do point out mistakes, but I always try to consider peoples feelings and to be constructive.

This is not something that should change.  God knows if people had treated me like that my life would be pretty different.

The thing that’s should change is to place responsibility where it belongs.  Until now, when someone would ROYALLY SCREW SOMETHING UP, I would sorta just roll with it.  I might even share blame and try to be a team player and help fix things.  What I’m finding is that this only helps the problem behavior continue.

I’m going to have to start saying “It was working until you screwed it up.  You have to figure it out and un-screw it.”

Moreover, I’m tired of doing work for people.  I’m tired of being the default setting.  When someone can’t do the work they’re hired to do and they don’t even bother looking into it, that’s a real problem.  I understand that sometimes you need two people to look at a problem, especially to see little things like misspellings or something like that.  But in our profession, when something doesn’t work as expected, there are some VERY simple things you can do to figure out what’s going on.  I’m tired of the subject of this rant just coming over and sitting with me while I do that work for them.

JUST DO YOUR DAMN WORK!

Ugh… I need a drink.