Re:A Tale of Two Teenagers and the challenges of gifted stud...
by WalterBright on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:00AM
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Once there was a truck driver maneuvering his gigantic semi on narrow street. I thought I'd be helpful and offer suggestions. He interrupted me and told me to bugger off.
Ok, I backed off and then watched.
The guy moved that truck around like a ballerina. It was a pleasure watching him handle it, a true pro.
The lesson for me was to not tell someone you just met how to do their job. It's a lesson I've had to learn many times.
I was really excited by it and was rattling off a list of ideas and tactics and strategies for how we could open the account.
His face turned bright red and he started SCREAMING at me.
At that point I was like “oooohk I did the thing again.” And backed off and didn’t interact with him.
After that he was a total asshole to me and started spreading rumors about me.
He felt extremely threatened I gather that he had been running this account for years and I could walk in and imagine a number of new approaches.
If I did it now I wouldn’t be so direct.
I have ideas all the time and most like do not want to have discussions like this because … they don’t have ideas themselves.
Corporate middle management are generally non creative and “brainstorming” just pisses them off.