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Competent Person Syndrome. Illness afflicting competent persons when working in an environment composed primarily of [incompetent] people. If others become aware of the competent person's abilities, the competent person will usually wind up being assigned more and more work. This will be a compliment of sorts, in that it will be recognition that the competent person is much better at his/her job than any of the slack-jawed simpletons otherwise populating the [organization]. However, burn-out and fatigue will ensue for the competent worker, as will resentment that the dimwits get paid the same amount for doing [significantly] less work. Thus, flare-ups of CPS are to be avoided by carefully meting out competence so as not to too harshly overshadow the achievements of others.
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