Engineers are culturally unusual in being very tolerant of criticism (from other engineers). That's because our compilers, nominally subordinate, yell at us on

Engineers are culturally unusual in being very tolerant of criticism (from other engineers). That's because our compilers, nominally subordinate, yell at us on a daily basis about minor syntactic errors. With managers, you can't take the same approach. You cannot simply tell your boss that his managerial style is nukular buttfail. That gets you fired.