a building full of engineers could easily handle the IT systemsI ' ve found that engineers can be surprisingly ignorant at times . A long time ago when I was working as a sysadmin for a small software company , I got a call that one of the engineers was having trouble with his multimonitor setup . This was on the day we got a ton of new hires who all needed to get up and running and the other sysadmin was out sick . So I was scrambling to hold down the fort and I just hadn ' t gotten to this guy yet . When I got to his desk , it turned out that he ' d taken it upon himself to set up his own workstation . He got everything right except for some reason he thought you needed to daisy chain the monitors together instead of plugging them all into the video card . I got him sorted out quick enough but it was mind boggling that a software engineer didn ' t know how to set up his own computer .