Everyone at work thinks I am this fount of knowledge and such a great worker. I know I am not – I am just one of the few original employees left from when this agency was founded, so I am the agency “memory”. I also know how to avoid doing a lot of busy work, yet still look like I am being productive. I work really well under pressure (such as a spreadsheet needs to be created for tracking stuff and I have two weeks to do it. So I procrastinate until the day before – or the morning of – and crank that sucker out in a matter of a couple of hours with cross linked sheets and everything. Fortunately I am very good at doing them so they are none the wiser. I feel if they knew what I was REALLY like, they wouldn’t think I was so great. I keep expecting them to bust me on this. Have been doing this for the last 10 years (out of 26). We have a very volatile senior management set up – our senior management positions are either currently filled with new people/people detailed to the position or the position is empty and has been for months/years. Our director/deputy director positions seem to have a revolving door on the offices (which is part of the reason I can get away with not working as hard as I should). It is really sad. We used to be a tight knit, well run agency. Not any more. Sigh. Just 4 more years. I need hang on for 4 more years and then I will retire.
dwane.scoty1 about 5 years ago
A Ha! Another stuffed shirt Faculty Lounger exposed!
contralto2b about 5 years ago
Everyone at work thinks I am this fount of knowledge and such a great worker. I know I am not – I am just one of the few original employees left from when this agency was founded, so I am the agency “memory”. I also know how to avoid doing a lot of busy work, yet still look like I am being productive. I work really well under pressure (such as a spreadsheet needs to be created for tracking stuff and I have two weeks to do it. So I procrastinate until the day before – or the morning of – and crank that sucker out in a matter of a couple of hours with cross linked sheets and everything. Fortunately I am very good at doing them so they are none the wiser. I feel if they knew what I was REALLY like, they wouldn’t think I was so great. I keep expecting them to bust me on this. Have been doing this for the last 10 years (out of 26). We have a very volatile senior management set up – our senior management positions are either currently filled with new people/people detailed to the position or the position is empty and has been for months/years. Our director/deputy director positions seem to have a revolving door on the offices (which is part of the reason I can get away with not working as hard as I should). It is really sad. We used to be a tight knit, well run agency. Not any more. Sigh. Just 4 more years. I need hang on for 4 more years and then I will retire.
ChessPirate about 5 years ago
Just take a look in the mirror. Then maybe you’ll realize that you’ve already been found out…
Stephen Gilberg about 5 years ago
Doesn’t feel so bad if you think everybody’s like that.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
Imposter syndrome where you see what ever you have accomplished has anything, but done by the person they think you are.
Andrew Sleeth about 5 years ago
“Imposter syndrome is very common in accomplished people.”
It’s also a common rationalization among incompetent imposters.