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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 147 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago

Huh, someone really took that article and illustrated it.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'll always appreciate the original but I really like the drawn version. Can't find the actual source anymore, sadly, too many reposts online have diluted image search.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

In fairness, the OG material makes for good practice for drawing facial expressions that convey emotion.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That’s exactly what someone with imposter syndrome would say.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It for sure does, and I actually feel like the illustration doesn't quite convey the same. Problem is that you need the smile lines to convey that emotion and the illustration's art style is somewhat at odds with that much detail...

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Sadly, I know someone who thinks they have imposter syndrome, when really they are just incompetent. It's painful.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Please I want to know about them more. How did you find this out? Do they talk about them having imposter syndrome with you? Imposter syndrome, when I've experienced it, always feels like it's internal without external confirmation, which a person would be recieving if they were incompetent.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So... Yes, they did talk to me about their feelings of imposter syndrome, out of a recommendation from someone else (I frequently mentor people at work). Unfortunately this person demonstrates a cluster of traits that means that they cannot acknowledge when they actually aren't good at something. (This person has a history of accomplished parents and education/career "boosts" from diversity goals (I am fine with diversity programs giving a boost to folks who otherwise are passed over, in fact I have benefited from them and I am grateful- the issue in this case is that this person actually isn't talented in this skill area)). I also know from others that this person's work performance is consistently, significantly below expectations in terms of measureable output and achievement of routine tasks that all team members should be able to do. Put these two together and their explanation for their feelings of inadequacy is latching on to the explanation of imposter syndrome. It's not my job nor my place to tell them that this isn't the case (I don't manage them), so at this point, I just try to avoid this person (largely due to the aforementioned cluster of traits).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They probably just suck at their job.

That’s not imposter syndrome, that’s just sucking at your job and not getting fired or laid off yet.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

I aspire to one day be good enough to have imposter syndrome.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Don't gaslight my imposter syndrome!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

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: 😰

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Or maybe, to use the terminology the great anthropologist David Graeber introduced, maybe you have a bullshit job

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

As a linguistically conservative person, I'd like to propose we spell it "Impostor Syndrome".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Just curious... what's the opposite of imposter syndrome?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Dunning–Krüger effect

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Marketing director

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

God complex?

this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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