My last boss was the master of sounding confident AF while not knowing what he was talking about. I’ve never seen anything like it actually. If I didn’t have 20 years experience in the field, I wouldn’t have known he didn’t know what he was doing.
I know that’s not the answer to the question (it’s the opposite) but talk about fake it til you make it. He was a master.
They answer generalized questions with strange politically driven opinions that are copy and pasted word vomit from online or the news with zero critical thinking or comprehension.
When they call you up to your office, ask you to do something you could do in 10 seconds, but instead email you a file and tell you to send it back by the end of the week (it’s Monday)
It’s perfectly fine and safe to tell everyone where the next tactical mission will happen. Right? Right? I mean. RIGHT. He said I’m right so…(help, I don’t know what I’m doing!?)
There was a team lead at a place I worked that would say shit like this if a client asked him if they could do something: “well that’s kind of a niche issue, we need to focus on things more relevant to the project”.
The client would’ve been less pissed off if he had just said he didn’t know how to do it
Absolute confidence as a virtual beginner. Or a perfectionism that utterly fails to take into account the realities of time and the effects of or on other people.
I’ve learned that it’s the loudest person in the room. If someone cannot go a minute without sharing their expertise on every subject, that’s a red flag.
Saying “the fact of the matter is” or saying “let’s be clear” when they start a sentence. Had a co-worker who used these two phrases all the time. To this day when I hear anyone start with those, I immediately think. STFU.
When they realize they’re in over their head and have no clue how to get out of the situation they put themselves in. Then start blaming everyone for their mistakes. When the crisis is over they take credit for putting together the “team”, who fixed the problem they created in the first place.
When their whole country goes to shit after signing executive orders and firing thousands that kept it under control and the. Instead of taking accountability, blame every office before him that is not associated with his party.
Uses a lot of jargon and specialized terms and industry specific acronyms, can explain them to a lay audience when that is crucial, like during a sales pitch or meeting with regulatory authorities.
Asking for help on Reddit. What’s more amusing is it’s also a sign they have absolutely no idea how to get help, as at least a good nine times out of ten, they would have an easier time getting the answer they seek if they just Google it.
Stand before the entire nation on live video, after 8 years of supposed preparation, and boast that you have “concepts of a plan” regarding 20% of the entire US economy. That is the sign you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.
Usually it’s when they think they know what they’re doing because they learned something new. That’s usually immediately followed by realizing you don’t know shit. After that, you spend a long time trying to learn all you can until you reach the master level.
I know I’m being vague but I think you know what I mean.
For example, this new guy on my unit that relieves me after my tour feels the need to overstuff the ambulance to the point where if you open a cabinet, everything comes falling out. I will have to remove a minimum of double what is needed in the ambulance each day I come in due to things literally falling out when I go to grab something.
If the ambulance requires 8 of something, I may add up to 12 just in case. This guy will add most times up to 20 if not more. This goes for almost every item in the ambulance that is necessary for our ambulance to be compliant for state and city regulations.
As I got to know him more since he came to our station, I became more and more aware that he doesn’t really know what he’s doing on jobs, but if you talked to him, he’d make it sound like he’s been doing it for a century. Almost every partner of his has complained about him overdoing everything, from overstocking the ambulance to the way he treats patients. Not knowing certain protocols or when to do or not do certain things.
He’s also the tour that runs overnight which is WAY calmer than the day tour and does WAY less jobs.
They stammer a lot and add repetitive words or say the same sentence but just reword it. They blame their project or ideas going no where on other people. Or they say things don’t exist because they have never heard of it and don’t understand it.
They will delegate or diminish the work – “Ah, we’ll get _____ to do that” or “That’s not important right now” when asked to do stuff. Anything to keep it landing on their plate
Basically if they talk all the time about the work and the plan and the vision but never actually get down to doing anything
The current US president is a very good template of an idiot. “Oh it’s the best you’ll ever see wrecks shit worse it was like that I’m just trying to fix it swings wider “I’m not the one that caused this I’m the one making America great again!!11!” signs 200 executive orders further ruining the economy and country because Fox News is all news
…should I go on or I mean did I answer OP succinctly?
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They start every sentence with ‘Well, technically…’
Saying ‘trust me’ before doing anything
when the emergency room knows them by first name.
Starting a YouTube tutorial halfway through instead of at the beginning
Holding a tool like they’ve only seen it in cartoons
Aggressively pressing buttons harder when they don’t work
Bragging you are the smartest and that you have a plan you can’t share
Currently in pres office
Nervously looking around to see if anyone else is doing it differently
They’re president of the USA
If I see a comment from someone who has this in bio 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Typing with one finger at a time like they’re defusing a bomb
My last boss was the master of sounding confident AF while not knowing what he was talking about. I’ve never seen anything like it actually. If I didn’t have 20 years experience in the field, I wouldn’t have known he didn’t know what he was doing.
I know that’s not the answer to the question (it’s the opposite) but talk about fake it til you make it. He was a master.
Reading the instructions out loud and still getting it wrong
When Trump’s yes men said he knows what he’s doing
Insisting they know what they’re doing when someone else points out an obvious flaw in the plan
They state their tariff plan and then revise it twice a week until nobody in the world knows what the fuck is actually happening.
They post the same question on reddit that gets posted every 3 days
Fixing a computer by aggressively clicking everything faster
Smiling.
Blaming everyone else
Saying, “Yeah, you didn’t know that??”
They answer generalized questions with strange politically driven opinions that are copy and pasted word vomit from online or the news with zero critical thinking or comprehension.
Being an elected official
Voting for/supporting trump
If you ask them something and they don’t answer your very question
When they call you up to your office, ask you to do something you could do in 10 seconds, but instead email you a file and tell you to send it back by the end of the week (it’s Monday)
“I know what I’m doing” while as they’re saying that they’re fumbling
When they say they have a concept of a plan.
It’s perfectly fine and safe to tell everyone where the next tactical mission will happen. Right? Right? I mean. RIGHT. He said I’m right so…(help, I don’t know what I’m doing!?)
They believe in MAGA
probably going in hyperventilation
Giving them basic industry terms and watching them try to BS their way through. Classic reference: “Just fold it in.”
When someone blames the government/politicians for their own problems. Left or right
There was a team lead at a place I worked that would say shit like this if a client asked him if they could do something: “well that’s kind of a niche issue, we need to focus on things more relevant to the project”.
The client would’ve been less pissed off if he had just said he didn’t know how to do it
MAGA
When they say everyone else is stupid but them.
Starting a trade war.
Everything will be done in “two weeks”
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms feel heavy…
They never admit they don’t know something
Blaming everyone but yourself when things go wrong.
Blank dumb stare on their face. Words are coming out but it’s all bullshit. I see it everyday at work lol
They make up reasons for why their political party is better
Absolute confidence as a virtual beginner. Or a perfectionism that utterly fails to take into account the realities of time and the effects of or on other people.
Blank states and trying to look busy doing a whole lot of nothing.
Getting angry when they don’t understand something and taking it out on coworkers. Making up information to prove an incorrect point.
Laying off or firing experts then hiring people with fewer qualifications. (Happened to me in 2007)
They cite Leftist talking points without actually fact checking anything.
Saying that they do and attacking anyone that says otherwise – just look at the current US president
Non-stop talking
They start a trade war with allies, deport children, crash an economy and imagine a woman 80 years his junior married him for love
Being incredibly insecure and disparaging if they perceived someone as an intellectual threat.
Talking excessively without saying anything useful or important.
Micromanaging.
Brute force as a solution.
Living in a trailer park with a Trump flag.
I’ve learned that it’s the loudest person in the room. If someone cannot go a minute without sharing their expertise on every subject, that’s a red flag.
Saying “the fact of the matter is” or saying “let’s be clear” when they start a sentence. Had a co-worker who used these two phrases all the time. To this day when I hear anyone start with those, I immediately think. STFU.
Yield
Most people don’t know what they’re doing at those signs
Doing something the same way everytime and it still doesn’t work🤣🤣🤣
When they realize they’re in over their head and have no clue how to get out of the situation they put themselves in. Then start blaming everyone for their mistakes. When the crisis is over they take credit for putting together the “team”, who fixed the problem they created in the first place.
They’re a member of the Trump administration
They ask for info on Reddit that they could more easily Google to better results from educated sources.
Setting trade tariffs….
When their whole country goes to shit after signing executive orders and firing thousands that kept it under control and the. Instead of taking accountability, blame every office before him that is not associated with his party.
They tell you they don’t know what they’re doing
Completely unable to stick to a plan or complete a task
Well the time it took you to post this is a fine example
Look at any adult.
Saying “got it got it” before you’ve finished explaining
Uses a lot of jargon and specialized terms and industry specific acronyms, can explain them to a lay audience when that is crucial, like during a sales pitch or meeting with regulatory authorities.
In today’s world, the louder you are the less likely you have no clue what you are barking about.
Asking for help on Reddit. What’s more amusing is it’s also a sign they have absolutely no idea how to get help, as at least a good nine times out of ten, they would have an easier time getting the answer they seek if they just Google it.
There lips are moving and words are coming out.
The eyes
Just watch the news and see how the whole world is asking if we are going insane here.
looking for answers on reddit 🙂
Their name is Donald J. Trump?
When someone Literally uses Literally in Literally every sentence.
If your name is Donald Trump
Stand before the entire nation on live video, after 8 years of supposed preparation, and boast that you have “concepts of a plan” regarding 20% of the entire US economy. That is the sign you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.
Spending so much time of one page of the instructions manual.
Orange skin
Terrible combover
Poor vocabulary
Usually it’s when they think they know what they’re doing because they learned something new. That’s usually immediately followed by realizing you don’t know shit. After that, you spend a long time trying to learn all you can until you reach the master level.
I know I’m being vague but I think you know what I mean.
Not admitting when they’re wrong about something.
People who smack smack smack the walk sign repeatedly- it doesn’t speed the process, really.
Talking down to other people. People who are secure in their knowledge / positions don’t need to take others down to protect their status.
They’re wearing a red cap with silly words printed on it.
They are in management.
They LOVE tariffs.
They go to church.
Tariffs
Running the US into the ground.
You look in a mirror lol
They’re far leftists reddit users 🤣 this was too easy
opening metal bottle caps with their teeth
They use buzz words like “woke” and fail to explain what they think it means
Over compensating.
For example, this new guy on my unit that relieves me after my tour feels the need to overstuff the ambulance to the point where if you open a cabinet, everything comes falling out. I will have to remove a minimum of double what is needed in the ambulance each day I come in due to things literally falling out when I go to grab something.
If the ambulance requires 8 of something, I may add up to 12 just in case. This guy will add most times up to 20 if not more. This goes for almost every item in the ambulance that is necessary for our ambulance to be compliant for state and city regulations.
As I got to know him more since he came to our station, I became more and more aware that he doesn’t really know what he’s doing on jobs, but if you talked to him, he’d make it sound like he’s been doing it for a century. Almost every partner of his has complained about him overdoing everything, from overstocking the ambulance to the way he treats patients. Not knowing certain protocols or when to do or not do certain things.
He’s also the tour that runs overnight which is WAY calmer than the day tour and does WAY less jobs.
Last name Trump? First name Donald?
They stammer a lot and add repetitive words or say the same sentence but just reword it. They blame their project or ideas going no where on other people. Or they say things don’t exist because they have never heard of it and don’t understand it.
Zero accountability.
Talking down about others behind their back.
Constantly cutting you off by saying “I know” before you finish explaining.
Pathological excuse maker
Usually quite orange coloured & accompanying a red tie
they change their mind about how to do it every 2 seconds
“Hmmmm” while scratching the head is always a good indication 😂
Staying the course when everyone screams that it’s the wrong thing to do.
Constantly saying, let me check that with a person who’s in a higher position then me FOR EVERY SINGLE QUESTION!
Ask Trump. He knows more than maybe any people on earth about “fake it till you make it”.
Keeps increasing tariffs against China which is like trying to intimidate an elephant by shaking your fist at it.
They bully others. Very strong indicator of insecurity and low intellect.
They get promoted.
Lying
They will delegate or diminish the work – “Ah, we’ll get _____ to do that” or “That’s not important right now” when asked to do stuff. Anything to keep it landing on their plate
Basically if they talk all the time about the work and the plan and the vision but never actually get down to doing anything
They impose tariffs
Just observe me for a day.
this Elon Musk interview –> https://youtu.be/b5EvdPxLKJ4
We can keep going through this til you get it if we must
In office politics, they’re the people in meetings who only talk when there’s an overwhelming majority, and they agree.
[gestures broadly at the US right now]
The current US president is a very good template of an idiot. “Oh it’s the best you’ll ever see wrecks shit worse it was like that I’m just trying to fix it swings wider “I’m not the one that caused this I’m the one making America great again!!11!” signs 200 executive orders further ruining the economy and country because Fox News is all news
…should I go on or I mean did I answer OP succinctly?
Joining MAGA…
I always down talk myself and if I end up doing a great job it’s a pleasant surprise
Setting up ridiculous tariffs?
Canceling vaccination efforts?
They’re reading the Users Manual.