[ridaj]

Let's assume this was true. Are you saying colleagues with lower IQs shouldn't have been hired?

If so, I would be careful about coming to work thinking that many of my colleagues shouldn't have been hired. If that's actually the case, you're just in the wrong company and you should bail. Caveat: maybe you'll find your new colleagues lacking too, if you think that's widespread.

And if that's not the case, then you have to work with the colleagues that you have, regardless of how smart you think they are. And it's frustrating sometimes but only because you're thinking about the imaginary colleagues that you think you should have.

[dangerface]

I think its more about trying, I think I have average or lower IQ but I try really hard to make up for it. I frequently see my colleagues say I don't know how to do that as if it excuses them from trying.

[ridaj]

The same point applies though: if if you think a large percentage of your colleagues shouldn't have been hired, that's one thing... If not then you have to just make do with your actual coworkers. To the point of the root comment, it's no use deciding that you're done with your share of the work (you wrote the docs after all) and now it's up to others to do their part (why are they so lazy!). That's just fantasizing that you had different coworkers, and it leads neither to effectiveness nor to happiness.

[kiawe_fire]

I’m finding this to be true, myself.

I can’t speak to what my IQ is, or whether I learn faster than others, but I can, at the very least, say that I’ve put effort into everything I know.

So when something needs to be built as a Vue.js component, or we need new build scripts in our local environment, or a SQL query is slow, I learn what I need to and I do it.

Everyone else just throws up their hands and says “welp, I don’t know JavaScript” or “I don’t understand this old SQL”, as though they were born with the knowledge they have and will never gain any more than that.

[tharkun__]

Or maybe the next one will be much better. This actually happened to me. New company was a god-sent. Instead of most colleagues being the "throw arms up in the air at any slight complication and do nothing" I got wonderful co workers that both love their job and are good at it.

It is so great to finally have found other like minded people that you can just have an awesome discussion with on an equal enough level. Of course people still have differing opinions or knowledge about specific topics. We can have a heated discussion on what the best structure or naming is for something but you don't have to fight over whether naming is important in the first place and you don't constantly feel like you have to explain the basics on everything over and over, never getting anywhere.

[_y5hn]

In general, people who do most work tend to keep everyone around them hostage. People usually lack access to even basic stuff and nobody builds the organisation, usually.

The book The Unicorn Project shows how it is dysfunctional. Leaders tend to thrive doing nothing of value in such environments.

[rthomas6]

I really like this mindset. It's compassionate toward your co-workers and would make your entire team more effective. And best of all it's accepting reality and would make you happier too. Thanks for this.