My old therapist went on a tangent on her whole “quantum therapy”, “vibe energies” and “magnectic therapy”, how it could help me, and finished it off with a “you’re in a science degree, you know what I am talking about!” like bish I DO know what you are talking about, NONSENSE, a class in uni literally made me read a book on pseudoscience and your shit was literally written down on it, a TEXTBOOK example of nonsense😭😭
Somebody who asked me for my opinion on their bathroom remodel and I said absolutely not gonna work and they didn’t trust me, but I’m licensed in this field and they’re an idiot, and now the sink they bought ended up, not fitting
When I got to my current job, I was told several things that tractors can’t do, which is why we had to do so much manual labour. I gave up arguing and started doing what they said was impossible right in front of them. Before I got hurt I was an agricultural equipment technician.
General construction. I’m not in the trades but my family was, two of my uncles were fully qualified, one an electrician and one a plumber turn gas engineer. When I was a teenager I spent a year training with each of them while trying to decide on a career. So they taught me as an apprentice.
From there I decided to try out for joinery because it was the one major trade no one in my family was qualified for but dropped it after 2 years.
I’m not highly skilled in any of those areas but I am skilled enough to do most jobs and understand the work.
Well one day my landlord was getting our heating upgraded in a block of flats.
Having done a lot of maintenance in that place and knowing the landlords usual guys I knew a lot about the place – mainly that for some reason the building plans on my flat specifically were inaccurate.
So I told the guy cutting up my floor that no, the pipes run here and not in the area he thinks because of a flood years back. He laughed and explained how I’m an idiot who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, that guy is an expert.
He cut through the mains water before the stopcock and caused 3 flats to need an entire internal remodel because he knew better.
Never had a more satisfying “told you so you fucking idoit” in my life. I mean I get his point of him doing it for a living, but for fucks sake when someone tells you they have had eyes on a structure that you have only seen a 25 year old drawing of, maybe take that into account when they tell you there has been significant changes.
Anglers tell me incorrect things about fish all the time. They especially like to argue that fisheries managers have it all wrong. I’m a marine biologist who studies fish life history.
I was volunteering recently and my host was pretty anal. She literally took over from me washing up to show me the “correct” way to do it. Now, I don’t know what qualifies as an expert at washing up but as a 29 yo woman I feel like I’ve been doing it long enough 😅
I have degrees in politics and history, international relations, sociology, and criminology. There are so many topics that people are obsessed about and have tried to explain to me. One that springs to mind was insurance company telling me that my car insurance was rising because of crime on my area, I used the crime mapping of my area as an example in my lectures. It wasn’t
A lawyer, more arrogant than most and I were in a popular bar with friends. He was talking down to me as I was voluntarily trying to help him solve a simple technical issue with his smart phone. He told me that since he was a trained lawyer from a good university (which I obviously wasn’t) that he knew computers and that I should just listen to him. I got everyone to laugh and clap when I told him that I had a PhD in systems engineering (true) from one of the best technical universities and maybe he should stop blowing his own horn and just listen so we could solve this problem in 2 seconds and get back to having fun.
I have a boss try to lecture me about coffee, operational procedures for coffee shops and our staff, and consistency every week.
Every week I have to remind him I’ve been in this business for 17 years at a high level. He’s never once clocked in to work behind a cafe bar and I’m not even sure he knows how to make his own coffee.
I’ve been here 3 months and my boss is our roaster. We’ve completely run out of coffee beans twice with him receiving plenty of notice beforehand that he should roast.
The next lecture I get about consistency I’m recording so I can play it back for him when we inevitably run out of coffee again.
Just a mum, who volunteers a lot in schools. Was sitting with other parents who were asking why the school wanted to change the way things were taught. Did not realise, that by just observing / listening to teachers talk / etc. just how much I had absorbed. It all came pouring out, and it it made perfect sense! Weird.
I sat next to a dude on a flight who told me, quite matter of factly, that the reason my ears were hurting was because of all the new flight paths into the airport which mean aircraft stay higher until closer then have to descend faster.
The flight paths to the south (where we were arriving from) haven’t changed, which I can say with some level certainty as an air traffic controller at that airport.
I’m in marketing/advertising. Thirty-five years as a copywriter, creative director, and strategist before getting recruited into a Fortune 500.
Not too long ago, I was told by my dimwit sister that nobody is on social media, so it’s not a legitimate marketing channel.
Never mind that I’ve done highly successful campaigns in social media, stuff with incredible ROI. Nope, because she doesn’t get on social media, nobody else gets on social media.
Also, I have a friend who hiked to the base camp of Everest. The guy trained for three years. During the trip up, he lost 50 pounds, and half his team had to be evacuated due to altitude sickness. But my sister told him, “Pfft. Everest? Anybody could do that. I could do that next week.”
She’s also the person who insisted on lecturing my daughter how the country was founded on Christian principles. My daughter, who has her Masters degree in early American religious history spent fifteen minutes pointing out where she was wrong, but evidently all her fellowships, research, and readings don’t mean squat.
I finally told my daughter to just drop it. Because she could have resurrected James Madison, the author of the Constitution, from the dead to back her up and my sister would have argued with him.
I should be used to it by now. But it never failed to annoy me.
A friend into conspiracy theories tried to tell me an electronic system that I operated and maintained for years was designed to create weather (it tracks weather).
I have three degrees in the field but he’d rather believe random ppl on YouTube than me.
I run into it a lot while playing pool, because i am laid back and just having fun. I was qualified at one point to play in a national league, but didn’t because it was going to be costly. Its fun when my opponent starts trying to give me tips, and then i run 5+ right then.
My cousin once tried to lecture me on how to fly a drone properly and how they could fly theirs up to 600 feet legally and fly at night with no lights. I have flown drones much longer than them and I have had to study all of the laws surrounding them to become certified. You are legally not allowed to fly a drone above 400 feet AGL (with no structures around or special permissions). You also must have anti-Collison lights on your aircraft at night. I asked them do they have their certification, deer in headlights response.
During my semester abroad, one of my fellow students tried to explain to me how complex German was and how good she is at it and how I will never understand such a hard language.
Basically any topic related to Obamas policies during his term. Was going to school for poly sci and international affairs but ended up taking a lot of public admin classes
I work in tech support and deal with this every day. It’s amazing how many people argue that won’t work, I don’t need to access that, why are you trying that, my IT guy said this, etc etc. I do this for a living and went to school for computer science let me do my damn job ffs.
I was a sommelier/wine director starting at a restaurant that hadn’t opened yet. Meeting sales reps for the first time is always a little feeling each other out, but this one sales rep straight up asked me, “So, do you know anything about wine?”
There’s no way to answer that question without being an asshole. Do I say yes and give my credentials making them feel stupid? Do I say no only to let them find out later I was lying?
I just mumbled, “Uh yeah some,” just to let them get on with their presentation. They had a junior rep with them who knew me from a previous job he jumped in and qualified me, he also later apologized to me for the rep. We didn’t do a lot of business with that company.
I work in cyber security. This happens all the time to me.
There are a lot of misinformed “enthusiasts” who will tell you all kinds of bad advice and get upset.
There are a lot of hopefuls straight out of bootcamps that learned the basic version of one type of bug and try to tell others how to hack.
The sadest types of this are people who are clearly struggling and are convinced an advanced threat actor has hacked their phone or is surveiling them. They don’t unusually lecture you on the technical aspects but about why they definitely are being targeted.
The weirdest recent thing was a talk submission for a conference that I reviewed about a topic I’m moderately knowledgeable on. The speaker had a great reputation on paper at least, so when none of the description made any sense to me, I was really doubting myself.
I spent longer than I’d like to admit researching if some of the terms used had uses I just wasn’t familiar with, etc. In the end, the talk was just complete nonsense. So, in this instance, I could at least prevent a bunch of other people from getting lectured.
I don’t know if it’s fair to say “qualified or experienced”. But I’ve had quite a lot of interest in biology when I was younger, and spent countless hours each day, for years, reading about biology. Research, studies, books, articles and so on.
Recently I had a minor disagreement with a random friend of a friend, and he googled and skimmed a NatGeo article and insisted he was right about a topic that requires way more sophistication, nuance and knowledge to make the kind of statements he was making. I just let it slide because it wasn’t worth the effort trying to educate him both about biology, critical thinking and sources.
My mum likes to ramble at me about trans prisoners and how they are an epidemic putting other people at risk. She thinks that prisons are full of “fake trans people that want to rape women”.
I work in the CJS as an analyst and have full access to the data on this, so I’ll happily correct her and say that the number of cases where this happens is extremely small, so small that legislating around it is pointless. She still tells me I’m wrong about pretty much anything related to it.
A freshman in nursing school tried telling me that insulin treats low blood sugar and insisted she should give me a shot while I was experiencing hypoglycaemia, because she was in nursing school and I should trust her.
Insulin does, in fact, cause low blood sugar.
I am diabetic and she would have killed me, so I (not so politely) told her to F off.
Had a spiritual yoga dude in India try telling me that a Saudi prince had invented a ‘quantum energy generator’ and was keeping it secret because “reasons”.
I’ve also heard some amazing things (usually about the weather) while as a passenger on planes. I fly them for a living. The absolute best one though was getting lectured to by a private pilot while I was in uniform…standing in the door of the cockpit I’d just come out of. It’s the exact opposite of the OPs question, but it just blew me away so bad I could only hold my laughter until he was off the plane.
I had worked for the same oil company for 25 years as a landman. A landowner was seeking extra compensation for crop loss because of unusual contractor activities (used actual right of way instead of neighbours lane) on his land. When I explained that right of way access across his land was part of his annual compensation and was explained 20 years ago when he signed he denied it. He really wanted a full compensation for his crop. He forgot that I was the one that had explained the agreement to him 20 years earlier but realized it was true when I showed him the copies I brought with me.
I went to buy some used windows for my daughter’s playhouse. The guy I was buying them from went on and on about how successful he is and all the rental properties that he owns. He talked about how he hides assets during bankruptcy cases, etc. I just stood there listening, not saying much.
I work for the US Government and was literally on the phone with the US Bankruptcy Trustee for our district that morning.
Not me but my good friend. She is a certified brewmaster – for those not in the brewing industry, this is a BIG deal. She has a master’s degree in zymology and multiple academic publications in the field of beer brewing. She is also a woman in her thirties, not a model but pretty enough that she attracts the usual attention from men.
Whenever she goes to beer events or big breweries, some dude inevitably comes up to her and tries to impress her with their beer knowledge. On the handful of occasions where I’ve been around to enjoy the spectacle, you could just see the wheels turning in her head on the best way to call out the dudebro and humiliate him. Definitely entertaining.
Just saw a friend I hadn’t seen in a while, and he was all gung ho telling me all about tariffs and how I am wrong. He has a GED, and I have a degree in economics.
someone i used to be friends with has always been a know-it-all and super into tech. One time he started going off about camera sensor sizes and how they don’t matter because more mega pixels = better photos or something (i don’t remember exactly, this was a long time ago lol)
i’ve been a photographer for over 10 years and i just let him go on and on about whatever it was he was saying just to finally say something like “Its crazy how you sound like you know what you’re talking about (because of how confidently he spoke) but it’s just totally wrong.”
the weird thing is that he actually KNOWS i’m a photographer, so idk why he was trying to explain camera tech to me like i didn’t know about it.
I’m sure musician doesn’t count because in my case they often already know I’m a musician without recognizing the vast space between our perspectives on the subject.
A guy I was seeing tried to lecture me on the origins of words from Latin from a book he was reading – swiftly corrected him and we spent an hour arguing about it before I showed him the proof and he conceded.
I’ve studied Romance languages and Latin for over a decade.
When I tell people I’m a psychologist, they often take it as an opportunity to tell me all about energy healing/astrology/auras/manifesting and just general new age pseudoscience as though I would be in their corner on that stuff.
Maybe some therapists are, but I’m a research psychologist, so I care about stuff like evidence and peer review and I don’t believe in magic.
I thankfully figured out I did this a lot in my 20’s. I was the definition of a know it all and not always a nice person but finding out I was lecturing an expert was a good dose of humble pie that I keep reminding myself of every now and then.
It comes out a lot on Reddit and I suppose that’s how I vent but if it helps me keep my half assed opinions to myself IRL, I can live with that.
I’m a clockmaker and I’m also quite young (early 30’s). I get a lot of comments of mostly old guys who used to be engineers/mechanics who chose to pick up clockmaking as a hobby in their retirement, mostly them telling me they’re so much better and more skilled than me and always offer to teach me if I need help.
It was much worse when I was younger (I started college for this at 21) but still get it. Currently I’ve gone to 2 different college’s (one 4 year degree for the basic skills and another 2 years at a university to get more indepth conservation science knowledge as well as more experience) and worked for 3 different clockmakers before getting a part time contract at a clockmuseum and starting my own business and helped my former tutor out a little bit when he started re-writing the theory books on horology. Currently employed at a high end art-conservation institute. Safe to say I feel like I know my way around mechanical clocks and a good deal regarding historic timekeeping devices.
Yet I’ll still get the occasional ex-engineer telling me he kniws everything and me screaming internally at the sheer amount of bullshit he’s speaking. Especially when you look at his portfolio and it’s all basic clocks with almost never any more complicated functions.
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Medicine.
My old therapist went on a tangent on her whole “quantum therapy”, “vibe energies” and “magnectic therapy”, how it could help me, and finished it off with a “you’re in a science degree, you know what I am talking about!” like bish I DO know what you are talking about, NONSENSE, a class in uni literally made me read a book on pseudoscience and your shit was literally written down on it, a TEXTBOOK example of nonsense😭😭
Somebody who asked me for my opinion on their bathroom remodel and I said absolutely not gonna work and they didn’t trust me, but I’m licensed in this field and they’re an idiot, and now the sink they bought ended up, not fitting
When I got to my current job, I was told several things that tractors can’t do, which is why we had to do so much manual labour. I gave up arguing and started doing what they said was impossible right in front of them. Before I got hurt I was an agricultural equipment technician.
General construction. I’m not in the trades but my family was, two of my uncles were fully qualified, one an electrician and one a plumber turn gas engineer. When I was a teenager I spent a year training with each of them while trying to decide on a career. So they taught me as an apprentice.
From there I decided to try out for joinery because it was the one major trade no one in my family was qualified for but dropped it after 2 years.
I’m not highly skilled in any of those areas but I am skilled enough to do most jobs and understand the work.
Well one day my landlord was getting our heating upgraded in a block of flats.
Having done a lot of maintenance in that place and knowing the landlords usual guys I knew a lot about the place – mainly that for some reason the building plans on my flat specifically were inaccurate.
So I told the guy cutting up my floor that no, the pipes run here and not in the area he thinks because of a flood years back. He laughed and explained how I’m an idiot who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, that guy is an expert.
He cut through the mains water before the stopcock and caused 3 flats to need an entire internal remodel because he knew better.
Never had a more satisfying “told you so you fucking idoit” in my life. I mean I get his point of him doing it for a living, but for fucks sake when someone tells you they have had eyes on a structure that you have only seen a 25 year old drawing of, maybe take that into account when they tell you there has been significant changes.
Anglers tell me incorrect things about fish all the time. They especially like to argue that fisheries managers have it all wrong. I’m a marine biologist who studies fish life history.
I was volunteering recently and my host was pretty anal. She literally took over from me washing up to show me the “correct” way to do it. Now, I don’t know what qualifies as an expert at washing up but as a 29 yo woman I feel like I’ve been doing it long enough 😅
I have degrees in politics and history, international relations, sociology, and criminology. There are so many topics that people are obsessed about and have tried to explain to me. One that springs to mind was insurance company telling me that my car insurance was rising because of crime on my area, I used the crime mapping of my area as an example in my lectures. It wasn’t
A lawyer, more arrogant than most and I were in a popular bar with friends. He was talking down to me as I was voluntarily trying to help him solve a simple technical issue with his smart phone. He told me that since he was a trained lawyer from a good university (which I obviously wasn’t) that he knew computers and that I should just listen to him. I got everyone to laugh and clap when I told him that I had a PhD in systems engineering (true) from one of the best technical universities and maybe he should stop blowing his own horn and just listen so we could solve this problem in 2 seconds and get back to having fun.
I have a boss try to lecture me about coffee, operational procedures for coffee shops and our staff, and consistency every week.
Every week I have to remind him I’ve been in this business for 17 years at a high level. He’s never once clocked in to work behind a cafe bar and I’m not even sure he knows how to make his own coffee.
I’ve been here 3 months and my boss is our roaster. We’ve completely run out of coffee beans twice with him receiving plenty of notice beforehand that he should roast.
The next lecture I get about consistency I’m recording so I can play it back for him when we inevitably run out of coffee again.
Just a mum, who volunteers a lot in schools. Was sitting with other parents who were asking why the school wanted to change the way things were taught. Did not realise, that by just observing / listening to teachers talk / etc. just how much I had absorbed. It all came pouring out, and it it made perfect sense! Weird.
I sat next to a dude on a flight who told me, quite matter of factly, that the reason my ears were hurting was because of all the new flight paths into the airport which mean aircraft stay higher until closer then have to descend faster.
The flight paths to the south (where we were arriving from) haven’t changed, which I can say with some level certainty as an air traffic controller at that airport.
I’m in marketing/advertising. Thirty-five years as a copywriter, creative director, and strategist before getting recruited into a Fortune 500.
Not too long ago, I was told by my dimwit sister that nobody is on social media, so it’s not a legitimate marketing channel.
Never mind that I’ve done highly successful campaigns in social media, stuff with incredible ROI. Nope, because she doesn’t get on social media, nobody else gets on social media.
Also, I have a friend who hiked to the base camp of Everest. The guy trained for three years. During the trip up, he lost 50 pounds, and half his team had to be evacuated due to altitude sickness. But my sister told him, “Pfft. Everest? Anybody could do that. I could do that next week.”
She’s also the person who insisted on lecturing my daughter how the country was founded on Christian principles. My daughter, who has her Masters degree in early American religious history spent fifteen minutes pointing out where she was wrong, but evidently all her fellowships, research, and readings don’t mean squat.
I finally told my daughter to just drop it. Because she could have resurrected James Madison, the author of the Constitution, from the dead to back her up and my sister would have argued with him.
I should be used to it by now. But it never failed to annoy me.
A friend into conspiracy theories tried to tell me an electronic system that I operated and maintained for years was designed to create weather (it tracks weather).
I have three degrees in the field but he’d rather believe random ppl on YouTube than me.
I run into it a lot while playing pool, because i am laid back and just having fun. I was qualified at one point to play in a national league, but didn’t because it was going to be costly. Its fun when my opponent starts trying to give me tips, and then i run 5+ right then.
Personal training
Woman here: most things
My cousin once tried to lecture me on how to fly a drone properly and how they could fly theirs up to 600 feet legally and fly at night with no lights. I have flown drones much longer than them and I have had to study all of the laws surrounding them to become certified. You are legally not allowed to fly a drone above 400 feet AGL (with no structures around or special permissions). You also must have anti-Collison lights on your aircraft at night. I asked them do they have their certification, deer in headlights response.
Pretty much every man in the gym just bcs I‘m a woman 🙂🙂🙂
During my semester abroad, one of my fellow students tried to explain to me how complex German was and how good she is at it and how I will never understand such a hard language.
I am German.
Basically any topic related to Obamas policies during his term. Was going to school for poly sci and international affairs but ended up taking a lot of public admin classes
Using a torque wrench.
How a P&ID works (they used my work as an example).
Many things that are related to my job.
Taxes. I worked in public accounting for a decade and the amount of ppl that tell me I’m wrong on topics is ridiculous.
Basic tax accounting should be taught in HS. It’s insane the amount of misinformation that the media can portray
HGTV has convinced a lot of middle aged white women they have a builder’s licenses.
I work in tech support and deal with this every day. It’s amazing how many people argue that won’t work, I don’t need to access that, why are you trying that, my IT guy said this, etc etc. I do this for a living and went to school for computer science let me do my damn job ffs.
I was a sommelier/wine director starting at a restaurant that hadn’t opened yet. Meeting sales reps for the first time is always a little feeling each other out, but this one sales rep straight up asked me, “So, do you know anything about wine?”
There’s no way to answer that question without being an asshole. Do I say yes and give my credentials making them feel stupid? Do I say no only to let them find out later I was lying?
I just mumbled, “Uh yeah some,” just to let them get on with their presentation. They had a junior rep with them who knew me from a previous job he jumped in and qualified me, he also later apologized to me for the rep. We didn’t do a lot of business with that company.
CNC machine programming
CNC machine programming
I work in cyber security. This happens all the time to me.
There are a lot of misinformed “enthusiasts” who will tell you all kinds of bad advice and get upset.
There are a lot of hopefuls straight out of bootcamps that learned the basic version of one type of bug and try to tell others how to hack.
The sadest types of this are people who are clearly struggling and are convinced an advanced threat actor has hacked their phone or is surveiling them. They don’t unusually lecture you on the technical aspects but about why they definitely are being targeted.
The weirdest recent thing was a talk submission for a conference that I reviewed about a topic I’m moderately knowledgeable on. The speaker had a great reputation on paper at least, so when none of the description made any sense to me, I was really doubting myself.
I spent longer than I’d like to admit researching if some of the terms used had uses I just wasn’t familiar with, etc. In the end, the talk was just complete nonsense. So, in this instance, I could at least prevent a bunch of other people from getting lectured.
Not even really an expert, but someone was lecturing me on “how hacking works”. It was some incredibly dumb nonsense.
Film making/writing.
I don’t know if it’s fair to say “qualified or experienced”. But I’ve had quite a lot of interest in biology when I was younger, and spent countless hours each day, for years, reading about biology. Research, studies, books, articles and so on.
Recently I had a minor disagreement with a random friend of a friend, and he googled and skimmed a NatGeo article and insisted he was right about a topic that requires way more sophistication, nuance and knowledge to make the kind of statements he was making. I just let it slide because it wasn’t worth the effort trying to educate him both about biology, critical thinking and sources.
My mum likes to ramble at me about trans prisoners and how they are an epidemic putting other people at risk. She thinks that prisons are full of “fake trans people that want to rape women”.
I work in the CJS as an analyst and have full access to the data on this, so I’ll happily correct her and say that the number of cases where this happens is extremely small, so small that legislating around it is pointless. She still tells me I’m wrong about pretty much anything related to it.
A freshman in nursing school tried telling me that insulin treats low blood sugar and insisted she should give me a shot while I was experiencing hypoglycaemia, because she was in nursing school and I should trust her.
Insulin does, in fact, cause low blood sugar.
I am diabetic and she would have killed me, so I (not so politely) told her to F off.
Studied metallurgy and setup a home blacksmith shop around the time everyone was claiming ‘jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.’
Had a spiritual yoga dude in India try telling me that a Saudi prince had invented a ‘quantum energy generator’ and was keeping it secret because “reasons”.
My theoretical physics degree begged to differ.
I’ve also heard some amazing things (usually about the weather) while as a passenger on planes. I fly them for a living. The absolute best one though was getting lectured to by a private pilot while I was in uniform…standing in the door of the cockpit I’d just come out of. It’s the exact opposite of the OPs question, but it just blew me away so bad I could only hold my laughter until he was off the plane.
I’m an economist, it happens at least once per month.
I had worked for the same oil company for 25 years as a landman. A landowner was seeking extra compensation for crop loss because of unusual contractor activities (used actual right of way instead of neighbours lane) on his land. When I explained that right of way access across his land was part of his annual compensation and was explained 20 years ago when he signed he denied it. He really wanted a full compensation for his crop. He forgot that I was the one that had explained the agreement to him 20 years earlier but realized it was true when I showed him the copies I brought with me.
Radiometric age dating. Young earth creationists love trying to ‘disprove’ physics and chemistry.
Had a guy lecture me on the expected phenotype of a genetically engineered mouse
I was the one who created it
I used to be a registered dietician. So many times this has happened I can’t even keep count.
I went to buy some used windows for my daughter’s playhouse. The guy I was buying them from went on and on about how successful he is and all the rental properties that he owns. He talked about how he hides assets during bankruptcy cases, etc. I just stood there listening, not saying much.
I work for the US Government and was literally on the phone with the US Bankruptcy Trustee for our district that morning.
Not me but my good friend. She is a certified brewmaster – for those not in the brewing industry, this is a BIG deal. She has a master’s degree in zymology and multiple academic publications in the field of beer brewing. She is also a woman in her thirties, not a model but pretty enough that she attracts the usual attention from men.
Whenever she goes to beer events or big breweries, some dude inevitably comes up to her and tries to impress her with their beer knowledge. On the handful of occasions where I’ve been around to enjoy the spectacle, you could just see the wheels turning in her head on the best way to call out the dudebro and humiliate him. Definitely entertaining.
Just saw a friend I hadn’t seen in a while, and he was all gung ho telling me all about tariffs and how I am wrong. He has a GED, and I have a degree in economics.
someone i used to be friends with has always been a know-it-all and super into tech. One time he started going off about camera sensor sizes and how they don’t matter because more mega pixels = better photos or something (i don’t remember exactly, this was a long time ago lol)
i’ve been a photographer for over 10 years and i just let him go on and on about whatever it was he was saying just to finally say something like “Its crazy how you sound like you know what you’re talking about (because of how confidently he spoke) but it’s just totally wrong.”
the weird thing is that he actually KNOWS i’m a photographer, so idk why he was trying to explain camera tech to me like i didn’t know about it.
I work for an import broker…this has been an interesting few months of people trying to explain tariffs to me
I’m sure musician doesn’t count because in my case they often already know I’m a musician without recognizing the vast space between our perspectives on the subject.
A guy I was seeing tried to lecture me on the origins of words from Latin from a book he was reading – swiftly corrected him and we spent an hour arguing about it before I showed him the proof and he conceded.
I’ve studied Romance languages and Latin for over a decade.
When I tell people I’m a psychologist, they often take it as an opportunity to tell me all about energy healing/astrology/auras/manifesting and just general new age pseudoscience as though I would be in their corner on that stuff.
Maybe some therapists are, but I’m a research psychologist, so I care about stuff like evidence and peer review and I don’t believe in magic.
I thankfully figured out I did this a lot in my 20’s. I was the definition of a know it all and not always a nice person but finding out I was lecturing an expert was a good dose of humble pie that I keep reminding myself of every now and then.
It comes out a lot on Reddit and I suppose that’s how I vent but if it helps me keep my half assed opinions to myself IRL, I can live with that.
I’m a clockmaker and I’m also quite young (early 30’s). I get a lot of comments of mostly old guys who used to be engineers/mechanics who chose to pick up clockmaking as a hobby in their retirement, mostly them telling me they’re so much better and more skilled than me and always offer to teach me if I need help.
It was much worse when I was younger (I started college for this at 21) but still get it. Currently I’ve gone to 2 different college’s (one 4 year degree for the basic skills and another 2 years at a university to get more indepth conservation science knowledge as well as more experience) and worked for 3 different clockmakers before getting a part time contract at a clockmuseum and starting my own business and helped my former tutor out a little bit when he started re-writing the theory books on horology. Currently employed at a high end art-conservation institute. Safe to say I feel like I know my way around mechanical clocks and a good deal regarding historic timekeeping devices.
Yet I’ll still get the occasional ex-engineer telling me he kniws everything and me screaming internally at the sheer amount of bullshit he’s speaking. Especially when you look at his portfolio and it’s all basic clocks with almost never any more complicated functions.