I personally deal with this on a daily basis. I am a network administrator at a small, private university and my immediate supervisor frustrates me to no end. He can configure a router with his eyes closed but cannot communicate anything to anyone without mutilating the english language. His emails are riddled with typos and misused words. Any spreadsheet he touches instantly becomes unreadable.
The worst part about it is that, like a previous poster stated, he almost takes pride in his ignorance. I really wish science and engineering schools, like the one I work for, would put more of a focus on communication as a prerequisite for technology and not an elective.
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I personally deal with this on a daily basis. I am a network administrator at a small, private university and my immediate supervisor frustrates me to no end. He can configure a router with his eyes closed but cannot communicate anything to anyone without mutilating the english language. His emails are riddled with typos and misused words. Any spreadsheet he touches instantly becomes unreadable. The worst part about it is that, like a previous poster stated, he almost takes pride in his ignorance. I really wish science and engineering schools, like the one I work for, would put more of a focus on communication as a prerequisite for technology and not an elective.