A marvelous video fully expresses the contrast between an engineer's rational mind and the others he sometimes must encounter at work for whom words are the wind that powers sales.
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You know you're in trouble with an engineer when he says: "I'll simplify." Translation: "I'll try to get you complete dunderheads to understand why you're such complete dunderheads."
These dunderheads, however, are so dunderheadish that they won't take sense for an answer.
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He begins with patience. He resorts to his days at high school. Nothing works.
He gets accused of not seeing the overall picture. He gets spoken to as if it is he, in fact, who is the complete idiot.
