Surely
you've interacted with other Americans that don't make you facepalm.
( intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 7:52, 1 reply)

Don't Get Me Started.....

As a rule, Americans are super-specialists. In their own, tiny field, they're brilliant. Top bananas. But only in their tiny sub-speciality. Anything not *exactly* in their area of interest and their clueless. Even if that area is crucial to them being able to do their own job. I've know Yanks who only do DNS, another who does only User Accounts ( he resigned when Active Directory cam out as that wasn't his thing. he only did user accounts). Another who was a Windows 3.12 specialist because, for some arcane reason, we still had some legacy applications that would only run on Windows 3.12. He refused to even look at an NT4 workstation as that wasn't his job. You get the idea.

The rest of the world has specialists too but at least they know far more than their own little field. Especially the Europeans.

Of course this is a generalisation. I've also met some Merkin's who were absolute IT Gods. Knew a lot about an incredible range of IT related crap. Left me standing and I think I'm quite good.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 11:22, closed)