Engineers are not too good at writing marketing copy. Which is where I come in, I get to rehash a 9 page document this week. My Soup-ervisor is much better at this sort of thing, but she's on vacation. So it's me and my red pen vs. run-on sentences aplenty.

Engineers are also not known for following up on e-mails. Like when I asked one of them to check some complicated links to annoying documents on the corporate site, he read the e-mail - he just didn't check the stuff I asked him to.

The other day I dipped into the office of an out-of-town sales manager to take a personal phone call. I couldn't help but notice that he had written the last name of Uncle Chuckie (the now semi-retired avuncular engineer) about 40 times on his desk calendar. Reminded me of the commercials on ESPN with the crazed goalie shouting "Brind'Amour! Brind'Amour!"