Engineers get to meet the occasional awkward/supercilious pilots just as aircrew get to meet the odd grunting/waffling engineer. There'll always be horror stories from both spheres because they make good telling in the bar but I don't think you can generalise.
The hackneyed monkey/bike/puncture saying is nonsense imo: how many engineers could carry out a one-engine inop 737 landing at night time in a howling snowstorm... Or even a landing in perfect weather!