wireline, like whatever

Perhaps you're wondering if I have a certain disdain for wireline people. (Yes, my capitalization of that department has not been consistent. I don't care.) The answer is yes, I do. While it is our original business I have found that many of the wireline people that I have met are whiny little prima donnas. That may be a slight exaggeration, but generally speaking, they like to both complain about how little they make and brag about how much they make depending on the setting. They also think that what they do is unusually hard, when it's actually unusually boring, which is perhaps why it seems hard to their feeble minds.