Dick Drone you may be wrong

Everybody has opinions on how things should be done. Sometimes it is very tempting to say, because you believe you are right, to tell people they are doing something wrong when they are not. All they are doing is doing it differently to the way that you would do it.

 

Well Dick Drones appear everywhere, but the workplace is the noticeable haunt for them.  They will criticize everything from the work procedures, the time keeping and how his colleagues spend their breaks. It was never like this at company X. Now we have all worked for different companies and worked in different ways and it does not make them right or wrong, just different. Well that is one thing to say about Dick, he is different.

 

I once worked with a company where they allocated three days to do a certain task manually because that is the only way they new how. I had done a similar project in less than 5 minutes as I had a computer script that did the same thing. I didn’t jump up and down saying they had done it wrong; the next few times this problem came up I ran my computer program on the same set of files, with everybody’s knowledge, then we compared results and my method was adopted. This was not one-upmanship; this is using everybody’s experience to the companies’ advantage.

 

But Dick Drones don’t only appear in the workplace, they are everywhere. Criticizing everything from the tea you buy, the beer you drink, even the way you tie your shoelaces. Recently I was told that I read the wrong newspaper and have the wrong TV supplier because it was owned by somebody this guy did not like. He called him a megalomaniac and I should not be giving him any money or supporting his politics. Well I only buy the newspaper because it has very good sports coverage and the TV service has the sports channels I want to watch. I have never met the owner of the companies, most probably never will and I am not supporting any tyrannical regime so wind your neck in Dick Drones of this World, just think, maybe you’re wrong.