I worked with a girl who looked busy all the time — practically frazzled. Then I realized she was a master at shuffling paper. LOL!
The sweetest person ever. You couldn’t even get mad.
Ah, there is the rub!
Abreviated history: lowly company/battalion grade officer after undergrad STEM. PhD to academia to Sr. Staff Sci and fellow of world’s largest biomed device company, then my own startup.
When explaining to newbies or trying to make a point I’ve resorted to a 2x2 matrix. Competent/Incompetent one axis; Nice/Asshole on the other.
The molst dangerous, and most useless, are those in the quadrant ‘Nice/Incompetent’.