And, the only way to never make a mistake is to never do anything; the only way to never be wrong is never to say anything, etc.
This needs to go onto my Facebook page.
When I used to manage engineering groups, PhD’s were the most useless.
Back in the early 80s, I worked with a guy like that. We were both programmers in a large company.
He was a good looking guy, blond with a big mustache, and he always wore a blue pinstriped suit, white shirt, red tie, and highly polished shoes. He would personally deliver the reports to the users with a smile, they all thought he was great.
He was secretly called The Polish Calvary Officer, because everybody believed he was dumb enough to charge Nazi tanks with a spear.
One of the other guys was asked to look at one of the PCO’s programs because it consumed enormous amounts of CPU. After looking at the code for five minutes, he broke into unquenchable laughter, and couldn’t even stop himself to tell us what was so funny.
When he finally got control of himself, he explained. For each record in the input file, you had to look up the customer name. Instead of using a find with the customer identifier, the PCO had simply read the customer file sequentially until he came to the customer he was looking for.....but, even if he found it at near the beginning of the file, he kept going all the way to the end!
This incident confirmed the PCO’s reputation of not being the sharpest knife in the drawer.
When I started out as a simple bookkeeper for hotels (and moved up) I also did part time temp work every once in a while.
I got a lot, and I mean A LOT, of jobs cleaning up the books done by CPA’s.
“Sharp enough to stick in the ground-green enough to grow.”