[rickmb]

I see the familiar pattern of programmers not saying "no" and not explaining clearly what they need to work.

None of the other people here are being particularly unreasonable, they're just ignorant. And given that "how to work with programmers, writers and mathematicians" is not part of any educations, it's not really their fault.

[metageek]

Nor is "how not to be interrupted" covered in the CS curriculum.