I keep pissing employers off by finding faults in designs and suggesting ways to improve things...

Maybe you need to check your ego and stop trying to demonstrate to people how smart you think you are.

Bosses just want you to do your job. No more, no less.

Yes. I worked with a tool who sounds just like you. I'm surprised he never commented on my inefficient urinal usage technique. He was unbearable and nobody could stand him. He had ideas about how to do everything better, more efficiently, etc it was awful.

Don't be that guy.

Don't think I would want anyone teaching me how to pee, even if it were I the USMC on Parris Island with Drill Sgt. Hartman.

Your skills would be well-suited for a small company, probably one that you own or share ownership. If you're as smart as you think you are, you could also hire yourself out as a high-priced consultant.

Where I work my job is to point out the faults and inefficiencies of the company and figure out how to fix them. Of course I don't say anything is faulty until I have valid proof of what is incorrect and how to make a change. Maybe instead of pointing out faults you should provide solutions first? If you don't have a solution to a problem then maybe there is nothing that can be done.

A fine example is my firm's data collection systems make it literally impossible to figure out raw costs of goods because the data does not exist. So that is an obvious flaw that everyone already knows about and it will take several years to get a new system put in place. A less tactful person might go to their manager everyday complaining about the poor systems.

On the other hand it sounds like your jobs are probably mundane jobs such as retail or something along those lines where replacing you is easy to do.

The OP is not finding faults. The OP is simply forcing changes to make something that is perfectly okay have his scent on it.

The best bosses are those who let employees solve problems, and do their jobs, their own thing. As long as it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Good thing you don't have ego problems. It must all those others.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

On the other hand it sounds like your jobs are probably mundane jobs such as retail or something along those lines where replacing you is easy to do.

This sounds like what is going on. If OP was an engineer, what he is trying to do may be part of his job, and he'd probably be qualified to be suggesting such things. But nobody wants to hear what the stock boy or burger flipper has to say.

The OP seems like the type of guy I recently saw at a car wash. He was there a few cars ahead of me to get a car wash.

The guy was wearing a nice tailored-suit, good leather shoes, styled-hair, and so on. He talked into a cell phone the entire time while waiting for his car.

He talked loudly, and was telling someone on the line how things needed to get done, and how important making maximum money was. There was no way to avoid hearing the conversation, other than leaving the car wash.

When it was finally time for him to get his car, he did not get into a BMW, or anything close. He got into a POS car. Used, fading paint, dents.

It was all a big show, with no substance. He was the OP. A big boss wanna-be.

I see self-employment in your future.

I felt the same way as the OP and have been happily self-employed for the last 25 years.

self-employed means unemployed ... maybe your [lrc sic] a trust fund baby

OP,

You don't know as much as you think you do. You see the schedule and know what is wrong. But you didn't have a dozen people come up to you to tell you they needed this day and that night off. So you don't know the parameters the person is working with. You are probably annoying and condescending when you make suggestions. Venting in this forum is a good start. Do that instead of limiting your career.

Do you find yourself doing this in personal relationships as well?

I respectfully suggest that you use shorter titles, paragraphs and sentences in your posts.

This will be more efficient and make better use of our time.

Look up lean six sigma. Find a job in a company where they have this as a program and get into that kind of role. It will suit you perfectly.

I think you should remove "not" from your handle.

You people are a dime a dozen, what you don't understand is that if everyone stops to fix the little inefficiencies you find and to stroke your ego the project will never finish. If you were not part of the planning and the faults are not fatal, stfu.

You should focus on improving your ability to influence and effectively drive results through others. Your observations about what can be improved may be spot-on, but your inability to effectively convey your point in order to drive the changes sounds like a big developmental opportunity for you.

The aspies around here are always suggesting mundane changes that really only impact them, and make their job "easier" for them to perform within the parameters of their neurological issues. To the general workforce, it's pointless and bizarre.