Dealing With Stupidity

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. 

I don't know who said the above quotes, but I do know that these are SO SO true.

Have you realized that MOST of the people in your office are REALLY stupid? I do not know how it happens but in most workplaces, you find that the average IQ is below 80 :|



Power, Position and Money add to this stupidity.

In most workplaces, there is a strict hierarchy of position, age, work experience etc... So you grit your teeth and handle it. If I, an average bloke, feel like this. I wonder how a genius feels in the work force! Maybe that is why all those IIT grads were paid so much more than I was, though they did the same work as I did. Maybe companies keep some people just so that their workforce IQ remains above 80; and to keep these super intelligent people from running away from the insanity, they pay them more.

Sometime, I remember wishing I could give a proper slap across the face of some of the stupid people. Its funny how no matter what kind of calculations you do to show stupid people that what they think is stupid, they DO NOT get it. Why? 'Cause they are stupid. If they understood calculations, they wouldn't be stupid in the first place.

I remember gritting my teeth and getting back to work after a heated session with a colleague. I would look at my pay slip and imagine a virtual line dividing my basic into two parts, the work basic and the stupidity handling basic.

People manage to work 'cause most of the time, no one cares. We don't care 'cause at the end of the day, the only thing we get by caring is a headache and some hostile colleagues.

But, what if we do care?

What do you do to handle stupidity?

Help me here will ya?