Colleague reallllly loves presenting himself as expert

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious about a trait that a colleague at my federal agency. He is really interested in, fixated on, presenting at conferences, events, classes, anything really where he can speak. He does this almost more than he does his actual job. At this point, everyone on his team is actually more of a technical expert than he is because we are actually working and doing the things that he is presenting on. What motivates someone to do this? He isn’t a mean or lazy person. I have never run into this before.

We had the same type in our office. We are finally getting rid of her. She’s moving to the office that does public outreach.

[Anonymous]

Because these conferences take him to Miami in February, San Francisco in December, Phoenix in early March, Boston in August, etc. All preferable to a year traveling from Franconia to L’Enfant Plaza.

[Anonymous]

Don’t put this on men, there are plenty of women who seek out opportunities to cosplay a Ted talk.