AAI engineers are, or certainly where better paid and had a much better contract than us pilots. Reason for that was we have no unity and we contractors failed to form a union, to managements delight, when we had the chance. Why would they envy pilots if we can't even get our own act together?
Maintenance people are pretty much on the same line and have similar interests and thus are better off than pilots. Again why would they feel animosity towards pilots?
If I ever wanted to know where to go what to buy and what bars or restaurants where good or I wanted to have good fun, I went out with engineers. Most of them are not a bunch of primadonnas with bad preconceptions like many of us pilots.
I never have ran into engineers that would fit the description of the original post, most of them a good lot and tons of fun to go out with and work together, many professional to the core.
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