Typically these are people who been with the company the longest (i.e., 5+ years). Bad attitude comes from taking the same crap day in and day out. Lack of documentation is the only form of job security that they have from getting randomly laid off. Me vs. the world mentality comes from knowing that their value in the labor market is significantly less than a contractor who makes more money from working at different companies on shorter assignments.

1. Place M&M's on flat surface.
2. Use index finger to sort M&M's by color (including brown ones).
3. ???
4. Profit!

When I was in grade school 30+ years ago, we sorted coins with toilet paper tubes and white glue. No fancy electronics was needed. As for sorting M&M's by color, I only need my index finger for that.

Or you could build your own AGM.

I can't tell you how many times as a help desk technician I've told "superior computer scientist" fresh out of college to press the power button to turn on the PC. Theoretical knowledge doesn't help if you don't know how a PC works.

I have a two-year A.S. degree in computer programming, which required one web "development" course in HTML. Since this was an online course with no hard deadlines, I waited until the very last day to complete all the assignments in six hours before taking the final exam. Having taught myself HTML with a text editor, it was a breeze to ace the exam. My only complaint was that all classes were taught in Java since the school couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio. The Linux instructor added some C/C++ programming to the side. The assembly language class got cancelled for not having enough students.

Oh, well. I can't complain too much. Uncle Sam picked up the tab with a $3,000 tax credit that paid for my second associate degree.

As a Gen X'er, I blame the Baby Boom generation for today's mess. It'll get worst as this sorry lot retires and discovers that life doesn't owe them squat.

Never mind that the computer that landed man on the moon was no smarter than a modern toaster.

FTFY

I'm looking forward to printing all the fantasy chess pieces I couldn't afford in the game shop when I was lee lad.

ls -al /dev/

The Lance Armstrong Defense.

The last thing we need is the IOC banning caffeine as a performance enhancement drug.

Remember that 9/11 was about 20 terrorists (the 20th terrorist couldn't get into the country) hijacking four planes to crash into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and White House. North Korea may have a million-man army, but they don't have 400,000 agents world-wide to strike out at movie theaters.

A "bad actor" would have an agent.