Comment Re:Arrogance about a job you don't understand (Score 1) 387
Everyone is wholly concerned with themselves.
Take this in for a moment: my broad base of experience is so broad that I can see things others can't. I've done computer security (right down to kernel-level policy; I could build grsecurity and stack smash protection from scratch if I had to), system engineering, programming, that sort of shit; but I've also done the accounting for an entire business, personal finance management, and even a lot of finance and general economics (I've analyzed how loans work to develop strategies for debt management and elimination; my current pet project is the elimination of poverty by replacing our welfare system with a cheaper one that provides an infallible capitalist solution, but not a perfect one).
When IT people tell me finance or accounting people are too dumb to do anything, the only thing I can think about is how very glad I am that I don't have to handle the invoices or run the end-of-year income statement for a business with 47 departments and 10,000 employees. The finance manager is bewildered by computers, but knows well enough to select between highly-complex computer software products and get the right engineers with the right skills to do the things he doesn't understand at all. Result? over 95% of the mistakes in their work go away, and the work gets done in half the time, because most of the work is now automated and the humans are managing the flow of data and verifying the results.
People tell me the guy's an idiot because he can't install his own video driver when there's some kind of IRQ conflict or whatever.
Yeah, okay. The only reason IT people think accountants are dumb is the accountants aren't building rocket shuttles. Unless the accountants build something exciting that the IT people don't understand very well, they'll think the accountants are dumb. They basically think only about themselves, and don't understand why everyone isn't just like them, and figure anything other people can do that they can't do is dumb and pointless.