http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy/ I think much of it applies to Systems Engineers who are tasked with "building" IT infrastructure and Application Infrastructure as well as Admins who write scripts[1] for others as well. Some of the quotable pieces I liked: "Cards on the table, software engineers generally have a reputation for being arrogant, disagreeable, and moody. […]