The huge disadvantage to being the guy who knows how to fix everything is that everyone comes to you to fix everything.

This isn’t actually good as it creates dependence and it means when you’re out no one is doing all that much. I’m trying to break that dependence at work now by just refusing to get involved even if it takes my team 10x as long to do something. This is with my boss’s complete blessing, by the way, as he also sees it as a huge disadvantage that one dude knows everything and is needed the moment any minor or major problem crops up or there is the slightest speedbump.

It’s hard, though, watching people flail and just…letting them.