Stupid people power.

[Pete7469]

Sometimes I can see the value of playing stupid. It protects you from accusations of malice and even responsibility when something happens and the people looking into it conclude that any fault of yours was the guy who trained you. I learned that in the army. If there's a job you really don't want to do, you can sometimes half ass it so hard and fast that no one knows you fucked it up for weeks and someone else gets the blame. Plus if people responsible for the completion of tasks you don't want to be involved in think you're stupid, they won't pick you unless they hate you. So in those cases always be friendly and offer to help knowing they will politely decline.

At the same time I have found that people who want to be thought of as "smart" usually exercise poor judgement, their "problem solving" creates worse solutions, and they've rarely done many of the things they're telling other people to do in some way or shape.