The first part here is more career advice than an answer to your situation, but this answer probably is a good portion of the reason why you've had trouble working with people.
Fundamentally, regardless of your intelligence - high or low - you need to be able to work with people. I can't count ...
+1 for a great answer, and I'd give another +1 just for that last line: Just because you are smart (or even genius) doesn't automatically make you a good employee. if I could. — FrustratedWithFormsDesignerAug 2 '13 at 15:31
I know truth can be stranger than fiction, but you take the cake. I am sorry but taking in every word you speak as true, you don't come across to me as an effective individual at all. In fact, you are coming across as incredibly, miserably ineffective, a real life Inspector Clouseau. You can't em...
I can't remember the last time I saw a downvoted question on, say, gamedev.se (I compare it to workplace.se because that's where I also review a lot of stuff)
while on workplace.se I always see at least two per day
Do you not think it's just the nature of the topic, though? Because this doesn't deal with code and is (supposed to be) about situational issues at work, it tends to attract many more subjective and opinion-based questions.
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