The parent post was downvoted by the HN hivemind who loves opining about things it knows nothing about. I live in the UK and while parent is obviously hyperbol

The parent post was downvoted by the HN hivemind who loves opining about things it knows nothing about. I live in the UK and while parent is obviously hyperbolic, it has some truth in it. Where I work, people with engineer in their job title are _literally_ the ones that come around when your computer breaks and they turn it off and on again. Come to think about it, parent isn't even that hyperbolic...