> I do the "smart" work and make the technical decisions (when they make technical decisions they are often poor choices, basically from lack of experience).
I believe everyone thinks they're the only one smart, special snowflake.
My team leaders suggest options and they are usually either very poor design decisions (like I would have made in my first couple of years of coding). Or they just don't know.
Maybe I sound arrogant, but when you have to override 75% of their decisions for something better, then I think I am more experienced than them.
Then there was having to dig onto code written and commented by them.
# open file
file.open(filename)
It honestly looked like one of the blog articles about how not to write comments.
I believe everyone thinks they're the only one smart, special snowflake.