>The default, "My coworkers are brilliant" point of view is just so contrary to my cultural upbringing ;-) It's not just cultural upbringing. It's difficult to

>The default, "My coworkers are brilliant" point of view is just so contrary to my cultural upbringing ;-) It's not just cultural upbringing. It's difficult to really realize that the intelligence/competency distribution at work is vastly different than in the rest of your life and all those years before work. Especially if you work for a highly selective employer in a high-skill job market. We learn from experience afterall and encounter a lot of incompetency throughout life. We also tend to weight negate experiences much higher than expected ones. I still catch myself being happy and surprised, if I encounter someone competent and usually expect incompetency. It's rude and on average probably wrong, but trained from experience.