[MichiganMat]

Im a software engineer at a large company here in the CA Bay Area, have been for 3.5 years now since I graduated college. Great work, great tools, I've learned so sooo much here. BUT.... In short, I love my work but hate the people I work with. Maybe its all engineers, maybe just software engineers specifically, but I've never been around a bigger group of one-up'ing, arrogant, insulting, stinking, control-freaks in my entire life.

These freakin' people do nothing but kick eachothers asses all day long and complain about how nothing is good/right/decent enough. "How was the weekend, hows the wife, do anything interesting?".... "Nope". And when they're done telling eachother how much everything everyone else does sucks, they find new and random things to tear apart: the CA highway system isn't optimized, the car dealer isn't fast enough, their TiVo doesn't have enough storage, you should do this, you shouldn't do this, that was stupid, and on and on...

My freakin' God, what the hell is wrong with these people!@#!@# Brilliant, _brilliant_ people, and all they do is complain, insult, and tell eachother who they should and shouldn't be. Its only Monday and Im ready to take a flame-thrower to these *******s.

I think my days as a software engineer, atleast at this company, may be numbered... {sigh}

/end_rant