Blatantly insulting your customers is acceptable...

[mandy]

...in the IT industry. 

The IT profession – and it’s debatable whether IT qualifies as a profession – needs to get its act together and start acting like one. Today, IT behaves more like a high-school clique, knotted together in the cubicle maze, snickering and slandering everyone who’s not one of them. There’s only one other career I know of where blatantly insulting your customers is acceptable, and that’s stand-up comic. (Of course being a comic also requires you to be funny, and material like select * from users where clue > 0 isn’t funny.)

We should be thankful that not all professions are as self-assured and blameless as IT. It would be very demeaning, for example, if doctors – taking a cue from IT – began referring to patients, in public discourse, as “meatbags.”...

full article: http://www.itoughttobesimple.com/essays/idiot1.htm

[thentavius]

Today, IT behaves more like a high-school clique, knotted together in the cubicle maze, snickering and slandering everyone who’s not one of them.

Yeah, you know those crazy popp--

Ermm... thought I'd stumbled into the Wagglepop thread. 

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=thentavius link=topic=6696.msg40453#msg40453 date=1168882479]

Today, IT behaves more like a high-school clique, knotted together in the cubicle maze, snickering and slandering everyone who’s not one of them.

Yeah, you know those crazy popp--

Ermm... thought I'd stumbled into the Wagglepop thread. 
[/quote]

[rose]

“Users are stupid and that needs to be the starting point for software developers.”

I totally agree with that quote.  The majority of software users ARE stupid.