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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
pff...  now i feel silly. |
One of the problems with mud-fuds is they
never feel silly: their armor of arrogance is entirely too thick to allow the notion that
any idea they come up with might not be the best idea in the history of the world, which is to say even better than their last one. They seem to believe that having gotten their degrees both makes them instant experts on
everything, and absolves them from dreary matters such as thinking.
Seriously, we have one mud-fud who actually complained to his supervisors (regularly, for an extended period of time, apparently) that he didn't have time to see his patients (his job) because he was programming a system for developing research plans and compiling the results (in other words, duplicating the jobs of an
entire programming team in my department -- not very well as it happens
). And no, I'm pretty sure that his Ph.D. is
not in anything related to computer science. They finally slapped him down, but it took them some years to do it.
I should be clear: there are quite a number of M.D., Ph.D.s on the staff where I work (most of them, in fact) who are wonderful folks who do their jobs exceedingly well, and who are not arrogant at all, well only a little. We do
not refer to them as mud-fuds so that we can distinguish between them and the few who are complete goobers.