# Anyone else notice the arrogance among engineers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980 "2006-02-17T18:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/1 "2006-02-17T18:51:09Z")
on messageboards? Anytime you notice a poster’s inflated sense of intelligence and rationality, his next paragraph will always reveal explicitly that he’s an engineer. You’ll never miss them, they’ll always let you know. The engineer title is supposed to explain their apparent genius and logic; of course it only explains the ego. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/2 "2006-02-17T18:52:19Z")
Whoops, I meant to search out some links, first, before posting. Hold on… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/3 "2006-02-17T18:54:17Z")
I would post a reply pointing out how unintelligent and irrational you are, but I have to go design and build the coolest thing ever in the history of mankind. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/4 "2006-02-17T19:03:43Z")
A robot monkey butler? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/5 "2006-02-17T19:05:16Z")
Fuck off, little man. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/6 "2006-02-17T19:06:28Z")
Well, I can’t have **friedo** beat me to designing and building the coolest thing ever in the history of mankind. I’ll have to get my robot monkey butler on the project right away! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/7 "2006-02-17T19:07:32Z")
Gee, **UncleBeer** , what do you have against robot monkey butlers? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/8 "2006-02-17T19:08:38Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A robot monkey butler? No. A robot Cameron Diaz, french maid outfit included. (anatomically correct, of course for purely aesthetic reasons.) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/9 "2006-02-17T19:08:51Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Well, I can’t have **friedo** beat me to designing and building the coolest thing ever in the history of mankind. I’ll have to get my robot monkey butler on the project right away! You’re still using the obsolete robot _monkey_ butler? It’s function is so limited… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/10 "2006-02-17T19:11:34Z")
Speakings as an arts student, I join in solidarity with the OP. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/11 "2006-02-17T19:11:40Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > Whoops, I meant to search out some links, first, before posting. Hold on… **pizzabrat** , thank you. Truly, you have wowed them and shocked them from their arrogant ways with your wit and careful use of exaples to paint an irrefutable and damning picture of Enginarogance. …slow clap…clap…clap… ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/12 "2006-02-17T19:16:26Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > You’re still using the obsolete robot _monkey_ butler? It’s function is so limited… 😛 What, you don’t think I’m going to put my bending robot on the project, do you? Sweet Zombie Jesus, I can only imagine what sort of horrors he would create … ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/13 "2006-02-17T19:18:18Z")
I’m an engineer, and if you already had intelligence and rationality we wouldn’t be compelled to point out the obvious. This title clearly authorizes me to display my genius and logic. Why, just last night, I was able to optimize the loading of my dishwasher to maximize detergent distribution and runoff flow by angling the dinner plates so that they were concave toward the center of the washer, instead of outwards at the sides. Call it ego if you will, but I’m going to be eating off of crystal clear dinnerware tonight! Booyah! Now excuse me, my wife is queing the TIVO in a way that suboptimizes our priority list versus our disk space and preferences driving a +13% workload to the unit, potentially shortening the lifespan of our hardware. Will they ever learn? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/14 "2006-02-17T19:19:15Z")
Insurance actuaries are the same way, but there aren’t enough of us that anyone ever notices. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/15 "2006-02-17T19:21:52Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Speakings as an arts student, I join in solidarity with the OP. 😉 Thats not fair. Everyone looks down on Art students, not just Engineers. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/16 "2006-02-17T19:27:01Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Will they ever learn? :rolleyes: I hope not. I’d hate to have to associate with the rabble in another line of work. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/17 "2006-02-17T19:36:23Z")
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7060416&postcount=37) are a [couple](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7113524&postcount=9)… ---
**Author:** ![Jeeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@Jeeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeeves)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/18 "2006-02-17T19:39:00Z")
As a mere engineering student, I am not sure where I rank, so I better keep my mouth shut. I do know that I outrank mathematics majors though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/19 "2006-02-17T19:46:41Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7060416&postcount=37) are a [couple](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7113524&postcount=9)… A couple what? Neither of those posts demonstrate an “inflated sense of intelligence and rationality”, as you so eloquently put it. Other than the mention of being an engieer, they have nothing to do with your OP. Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980/20 "2006-02-17T19:48:06Z")
Is this what you think about while flipping burgers to pay off the massive debt you incurrred to get a small-college history degree? No pickles on mine, please. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-arrogance-among-engineers/344980.md?page=2)