[borplk]

You are not the person I'm referring to because you say you are happy with that.

I do what you described too, in parties or whenever I have an opportunity for a discussion with someone and I enjoy it and they ask me questions too and we try our best to teach each other something which is perfectly ok and fun.

What I was referring to was mostly employee/boss situations where the boss asks the employee about the details or internals of system X and then gets pissed when the engineer can't explain it to him and blames it on them because they were incapable of explaining complex things to non-technical people.

I mean they have to appreciate that there's a limit to how much you can explain to non-technical people in simple terms. At some point it just doesn't work, and either you have to use the big words, and concepts and assume knowledge, or drop back to dead simple insulting analogies. You see that server boss? That's like a train! choo-choo!