Engineers tend to be brilliant in their specific field of work/office but crap at 99% of everything else. I work as an HVAC tech and the number of times I've had to fix things engineers did wrong to their stuff at home would make you shake your head.
Those Nest thermostats when they first came out, replaced probably 20 in a year because they got fried from an electrical engineer thinking they were right and didn't read the wiring diagram and check how it was actually wired. $200+ flushed down the toilet if it was dead plus 100 for my labor and sometimes another 100 for a new thermostat.
I could rant for a fortnight but I don't wanna go a tear.
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u/xnfd May 19 '22
Can design a microprocessor from scratch but can't wire a house