So on my last post, a friend posted how the IT department always treats people poorly. I am an IT guy so I felt compelled to comment on this. And my comment is, guilty as charged! We are notorious as technical people to come off as really rude or treat people as if they are stupid. Just watch the SNL skit with Mike Myers and you will see what most people think about the IT team. https://youtu.be/tfKL6RM8hsY
There is a reason thou that I would like to explain. You see most of the people who gravitate toward a career in technology have a certain personality type. I would like to say that I am an anomaly in that I am an extrovert but many of my friends and coworkers are not. To be really good at the technology you have to be able to hyper-focus on things and really be able to understand how these systems work, and they don’t operate like people. So some of them, and I don’t want to say all, don’t realize that the way they speak to people is rude or condescending because they don’t spend a lot of time developing those people skills, they spend their time looking at manuals, websites, and code. So the next time they come to your desk and you think they are not being very friendly, remember they are used to being alone and conversation is foreign and most of the time they are just not aware of the tone.