To be honest, my story is not necessarily that of a dumb person.
More like overzealous and cocky.
Recently at work I milled, drilled and tapped a large aluminum prototype work plate (800x620mm 30mm thick, with about 1300 M6x1.0 threads).
I am at my mill and this young coworker maybe half my age only recently transferred to work on the mills comes by and full of pride says to me "Whatever You don't know or need help with ask me, I went to school for this!", me forcing myself to be polite "Yeah, sure!".
Same day the fellow comes to me and asks for help as his mill stopped dead within a tool change and neither him nor the other workers managed to reset the machine to home positions as the Automatic Tool Changer (ATC) was under tension locked in an improper position and the machine would just report an overload condition upon trying to manually reset the ATC.
Me having seen this condition a couple times (tool misalignment so the tool gets stuck and the ATC can't move it no more) took a big piece of aluminum and a heavy hammer, aligned the aluminum on the tool and gave it a bang, tool breaks loose and back into place releasing the tension off the ATC arm allowing me to manually return the ATC to home position.
I realize this is no ordinary fault for an automated machine and "freeing" a machine from a position like that is not an everyday's task (well, for me it is actually).
Still, I felt a little looked down from upon as the guy proudly "offered" me help.
I certainly do not know it all , but I have over a decade on mills, the fellow has 2-3 months worth at best.
Back when I started working (aged 17) there was this thing called respect for Your elders, workplace and even more so Your superiors (I am a foreman, among other things).
This young generation of workforce I am encountering has no respect for their workplace nor coworkers and the only thing they excel on is Facebook!
To prolong the story, as I pulled out my phone to take pictures of the mills fault I get a perplexed look of the fellow.
He asks me "Why are You using such an old phone with a keypad?", me not being perplexed at all answer him "I am smart enough to use a dumbphone, dumb people use a smartphone to think for them as they can't for themselves."
Guy hasn't asked me a single thing for two weeks now, I think I may have hurt his feelers.

To clarify, I tend to take hundreds of work related pictures with my phone each week, yet I only use a dumbphone (Sony Ericsson Elm candy bar phone, 5MP camera).
It is a matter of personal preference, small size, great camera, battery stamina,. . .
I actually do own a smartphone which I only utilize as a tablet PC at home.
DISCLAIMER:
I mean no disrespect to anyone with any of my posts content!
It is all just part of the story.
