I'm gonna gently drag this back over here ;')
OK, now fess up...how many in the position of the "expert" have dream sequences during the meeting where they pummel every last one of these morons?
Truth be known I want the "whimsicalmamapig experience"
I just want to do things, to create things, to make things better. Unfortunately it's not in the cards - at least not for me. I live in a lefty world, work at a trade infested with lefties, and suffer through a time of lefty resurgence.
The interesting aspect that hasn't really been highlighted is how much PC figures into this mess. Discretion deters me from offering up specific details that would reveal too much personal info on an open board, but suffice it to say that in as much as I recognize that some of my clients are (shall we say) "challenged", most of my contemporaries are super-challenged - and the people I work for are just plain idiots.
I can offer up one anecdote. When I first started with this outfit I had a manager who disliked the tagline I use on my email. Now as a "progressive" company management encourages their employees to express themselves (in theory). One of those avenues to self-expression is email. I had noticed that most of my co-workers sported pithy sayings as a signature line to their emails. So I added my own:
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." -Charlton Heston I got (and still receive) huge kudos for it but my manager hated it. Several times she suggested that I choose something else. When I would ask why she was never sure but thought it would be "better for me" if I did. She was caught in a leftist dilemma - political correctness dictated that no one should do anything that might hurt the feeeeeeeeelings of a targeted audience, but at the same time she knew that I out produced every one of my contemporaries - almost double in most cases. And my work was peerless. No one ever had to correct my output.
In the end she reluctantly gave up trying to change me. She felt that she would suffer embarrassment from my use of the expression and I think that eventually she was relieved that the embarrassment never manifested itself. We got along well because we came to understand one another.
When she retired her successor was innocuous enough, and favored my tagline. After two years he took another position within the company and was replaced by a twit. This next guy was truly a blithering idiot. A consummate prog, he immediately took offense to my tagline and told me to remove it. So I replaced it with something twice as bad ;')
Soon enough he noticed it and confronted me (in an entirely non-confrontational way if you catch my drift) and expressed concern about my new tagline. I shrugged and smiled and muttered something about brevity being the soul of wit. He asked if I would change it and I said, "I just did". He asked if I would change it to something "less inflammatory" and replied, "Well that would be my Heston quote".
He (again) expressed concern about "what people might think" and I replied "Who gives a damn what 'people' think? Shouldn't you be more concerned about getting things done"? and entered into a Q&A session:
Me: Am I getting the job done?
He: Yes - of course.
Me: Is there a specific area of my work-related activities that concern you?
He: No.
Me: Are you receiving complaints from our clients about me or my performance?
He: No.
Me: Of course not. But are you receiving feedback from our clients?
He: Yes, all very positive.
Me: Have you had occasion to doubt my ability to perform my duties or complete any tasks?
He: No.
Me: So, at a time when you are having serious performance issue with more than half of your staff why are you insulting me and wasting my time with this extraneous bullshyt?
He: I wish you wouldn't use profanity.
Me: Sorry. Why are you wasting time on this non-issue?
He: I think it reflects poorly on our team.
Me: Bullshyt! (Sorry!) C'mon Phil, that's crap and you know it. I'm the best you have - likely the best you'll ever see. I get things done - the things that the rest of the "team" run away from because they are so difficult. I take on the hardest projects. I'm not afraid to tell it like it is - and to anyone. That's why the top brass come to me and ask questions - they know that they will get the unvarnished truth.
He:
I know that but you're encouraging the others to misbehave.I can't win for losing ;')