Imposter syndrome
Imposter syndrome
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Sadly, I know someone who thinks they have imposter syndrome, when really they are just incompetent. It's painful.
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I aspire to one day be good enough to have imposter syndrome.
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As a linguistically conservative person, I'd like to propose we spell it "Impostor Syndrome".
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Don't gaslight my imposter syndrome!
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Bossman: "Hey jubilationtcornpone. We've got [XYZ] issue in production. You got any idea how to fix it?"
Me: "Hmmm... Yeah, we could probably [insert good and fairly well thought out fix here]. I bet that would work."
Bossman: "Cool. Let's do that."
Three hours later...
JT Cornpone's shoulder devil: "Hey buddy! You remember that suggestion you made to your boss? Boy that was pretty fuckin laughable. I can't wait to see the look on your face when it completely fails and you get fired out of a canon. It's gonna be legendary!"
Me: 😰
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Just curious... what's the opposite of imposter syndrome?
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Dunning–Krüger effect
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Marketing director
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God complex?
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Or maybe, to use the terminology the great anthropologist David Graeber introduced, maybe you have a bullshit job
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