Competence and rudeness are inversely proportional.
the most competent tend to be polite, accurate, considerate and soft spoken...
...the rudest, and most abusive demonstrate the most ignorance... these are virtually always in the lower income groups... the most abusive are the drunks... not an impressive set. Excusable to some degree in youth though...
On that issue, I made a similar posting a few years ago to an HVAC NG group and was assailed by a small army of guys choosing to differ with me, stating that they were earning *8 dollars an hour..and that was a full 2 dollars above minimum wage.. and some bragging about how they had their own cars.
80 dollars an hour was an alien concept to them as was the notion of high end markets for such skills...these thought HVAC was placing a cooling appliance in the home.Did education work in that arena?
nah :)
Phil Scott
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