• zout@fedia.io
    37·
    6 days ago

    I’m in this picture, but I also learnt over the years that sometimes it doesn’t take a lot of knowledge to be the company expert on a topic. It can easily boil down to having asked another company about some information, or having seen something before.

    • orhtej2@eviltoast.orgOPEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      And yet I doubt myself on knowing enough about things I do on a daily basis and have been doing professionally for years 🤷

      • zout@fedia.io
        6·
        6 days ago

        As long as you acknowledge your doubt and recognize how good you’re really doing your job, that should be a good thing. Just don’t dwell on it.

    • passepartout@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      or joining the company under the premise to “self educate” on the topic, resulting in being the only person knowing anything about that topic.

  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
    17·
    6 days ago

    Worker: I don’t know much anything about it.

    Supervisor: We know some about it.

    Department head: We’ve used it before.

    Board member: People have been using this a lot.

    CEO: We have expert for this with years of experience!

  • nexguy@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 days ago

    “So what do you think about these merger prospects Johnson?”

    “Um, did you try turning it off and on again?”

  • Sprinks@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 days ago

    I get called on at work a lot for questions and training on our websites, but i honestly feel like the least knowledgable person in the entire company. It took a few years before it dawned on me that im not called on a lot because of the information i know, but rather for my ability to find the information i dont.

    • Mike D@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Knowing who to ask has been one of my strengths. I don’t know everything but I usually know someone in the company that knows more than me.

  • Enekk@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    What everyone is missing here is that it isn’t just about knowing things, it is also about how you communicate those things and how you present yourself.

    • Rooster326
      5·
      6 days ago

      It’s true. I’ve gone from telling people

      Fuck if I know

      To

      I’ll look into it and back to you (Even if I never get back to them most times…)

      Has done wonders for my career

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    6 days ago

    Am I an expert in <insert topic>? No, but I’ve been Googling since before Google and can for sure get you some legit sounding answers pretty quickly.