its an attribute of certain techy admin types Full.
It can get quite amusing sometimes when things don't quite go the way they should with them.
Its actually a big difference between Connys and perms.
As a conny you get over ruled with something which is blatantly stupid, and you just shrug your shoulders and move on with the knowledge that its not going to be your problem or if it does you will make a tidy sum sorting it out.
The joy of submitting your invoice at the end of the month and thinking
"h'mm that's 25 billing days, 15 mins per day sat on the throne squeezing one out. That will be over 6 hours and 300 quid, they want it they can have it"
And that can be XP or some dodgy !!!!e subnet setup and even that device of Satan an exchange server. But I did threaten to walk out when they said they were getting a Mac server on my Unix server subnet until I had seen that we had a decent cisco router coming in and I could gag the bastard into solitary confinement with its own line to the backup robot tape drive.
But some of the permys get their knickers in a right twist over things. Sometimes months after an "argument" it will be brought up even after the whole setup had been evicted from the enterprise. There are some conny's like that as well but they are really not very happy individuals and suffer from permanent failure of contract renewals.