Hmm. I don't think this is exclusive to IT workers. Finance workers are as bad, or worse. Having read and listened to a lot of finance training classes/materia

Hmm. I don't think this is exclusive to IT workers. Finance workers are as bad, or worse. Having read and listened to a lot of finance training classes/materials recently, I can say that much of this is not just a lack of effort put into explaining things, it's shockingly sloppy standards of epistemology. Concepts are blurred constantly, terms are reused for different things, procedures are introduced with little attempt to ground them in related ideas. Much of the time I suspect people have learnt in a very ad hoc manner, and don't really know what they're doing, just enough to get things working. I get that sort of lazy vibe from a lot of Unix culture too, although it's a bit more superficial.