Hearing "maybe you're just not good enough to figure this out" is a sign you're working with a passive aggressive personality. In my experience, it's also said

Hearing "maybe you're just not good enough to figure this out" is a sign you're working with a passive aggressive personality. In my experience, it's also said by the person who's been touting the technical person's skills to other people as "the person who's going to solve all our problems". They're setting you up for failure, because not only are their tasks often impossible to deliver on, they use it to threaten to bring someone else in.